Motorised vehicles with defective lights.

[snorri]

I've just been out and checked all my lights on bike and car, and I've picked up that paper disc off the car floor and stuck it back on the windscreen so that everyone knows I've paid my Road Tax.
Now, are you happy ?

 

[marinyork]

I was just making the point that there are loads of people, about 50% round where I live, who ride bikes without lights and that perhaps cyclists shouldn't get too critical of motorists. It's the same double standard as complaining about motorists RLJing.

Don't really see it myself. I think people get far too worked up about ninjas, but particularly fairies. I'd still rather they didn't do it, but there's not much I can do about it. I work with a fully clad ninja master cyclist and this is the time of year it's quite worrying (he has yet to be totalled off). I think people don't get worked up enough about defective lights on cars. Similarly I think people get too worked up about cyclists RLJing and not enough about motorists doing it. I don't really regard there being some kind of robust equivalence. Motor vehicles generally have an order of magnitude higher mass than cyclists, higher speeds and take up more of the road. Even with shaped bumpers, crumple zones, seat belts and various other safety features it's hard to overcome this when they collide with something else.

 

[snorri]

No, repeat after me "its not road tax, its vehicle excise duty'.

YES! I hoped someone would take the bait, but didn't expect it to be you.

 

[ufkacbln]

A couple of years ago teh Portsmouth News had a front a
page article about cycle lights.

They showed and "unlit" cyclist in traffic on a dual carriageway and then had an article about how cyclists should be made to have lights.

We then took great delight in pointing out that the adjacent car had no lights on, and the one in the outside lane only one light.

Bit of a home goal!

 

[Crankarm]

One headlight out vehicles are known as winkers.

If drivers don't have the wit to check lights regularly then they shouldn't be driving. It's not hard as there are numerous instances to see the car's reflected on some surface or other. Feckers that stand on the brake pedal at traffic lights or in jams get my wick. I generally put my main beams on as I don't appreciate having my retinas burned by three high power red LEDs shining at me from the 4x4 or Audi infront.

 

[evilkitten]

On the motorway this morning (5.30am, so pitch black), I passed a car with one working headlight, and no rear lights whatsoever. He was pootling along at ~40mph in lane 1. I haven't got round to checking the BBC yet to see if he made it off the M4 alive.

 

[mr_cellophane]

The misty/foggy morning last week showed those who don't turn light on what ever the circumstances and since then, those who did turn on their fog lights and have forgotten to turn them off again.

Also noticed a number of vans with trailers which don't have working lights.