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Jul 24, 2009 | 6:45 pm
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Obviously, at your age, you don't understand driving well enough to make that statement. If it's cloudy or inclement weather, I hate people who drive like you suggest that you would. Turn your effing lights on so I can see you! It's a presence thing, when Canada mandated nation wide to have Daylight Running Lights, their rate of daytime accidents decreased.
When you start driving in a pounding rainstorm during the day and someone isn't using their headlights, it makes it a lot more unsafe to drive. It's hard enough to see in a good rainstorm; at least with headlights you can see other 2000+ lb machine moving at 40 mph coming in your direction.
Jul 24, 2009 | 7:51 pm
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Well I'm not stupid - when it's foggy or raining out I'd be driving with headlights on but when it's sunny and mid-day I don't think it's necessary to have them on. The lights could blind someone and cause them to crash. That happened to my grandpa a few years ago. He was fine but the car was totaled.
Jul 24, 2009 | 7:52 pm
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Well I'm not stupid - when it's foggy or raining out I'd be driving with headlights on but when it's sunny and mid-day I don't think it's necessary to have them on. The lights could blind someone and cause them to crash. That happened to my grandpa a few years ago. He was fine but the car was totaled.
If the headlights blinded your grandfather during the day, he's probably got some issues far bigger than you realize. I don't understand how that would be possible actually. I could understand at night but during the day, no.
The purpose as Dovster said, is to increase the visibility of your car to others, not to be able to see better. Sometimes people don't look as hard as they could/should when turning and the brighter light of an oncoming car's headlamps may stop them from going when they shouldn't.
Jul 24, 2009 | 7:56 pm
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Well it was on a turn, and it was a brand new car that blinded him...
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Jul 24, 2009 | 8:00 pm
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Grandpa fell asleep.
Jul 24, 2009 | 8:02 pm
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Nope. If he fell asleep, he would've been dead. Besides, it was in the adirondacks, so the constant turns will keep you awake.
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Jul 24, 2009 | 8:13 pm
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OK. Grandpa blacked out, Grandpa was on his cell phone, Grandpa was looking at something off the road ...
Jul 24, 2009 | 8:22 pm
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Jul 24, 2009 | 9:15 pm
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Jul 24, 2009 | 9:24 pm
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Jul 24, 2009 | 9:36 pm
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Jul 24, 2009 | 9:54 pm
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Currently you can go to ATL or CLT from GNV. When NW was servicing GNV you could also reach MEM or TPA/MIA when CO was flying out of GNV. Funny how NW told GNV they would provide service only if the airport had jetways as NW would use RJs. GNV installed the jetways and less than 18 months later NW left saying the route was not profitable.
We have driven to JAX on numerous occasions for the better fare and once to TPA when ATL was an ice cube and my flight to FRA was frozen in place
We have driven to JAX on numerous occasions for the better fare and once to TPA when ATL was an ice cube and my flight to FRA was frozen in place
Jul 24, 2009 | 11:44 pm
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Jul 25, 2009 | 5:39 am
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