People regularly flashing their lights at me?!

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by mr_miles

I've always wondered though....how can you NOT notice they aren't on at night?

Seriously. Even if the lack of illumination in front of you isn't obvious, the dark gauges and controls in front of your face should let you know.

[jack black]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

Seriously. Even if the lack of illumination in front of you isn't obvious, the dark gauges and controls in front of your face should let you know.

In most modern cars gauges are brightly illuminated all times. They actually dim when you turn on headlights. Also, when driving in city, you have brightly lit street, and with DRL on, so there are fewer clues. My wife had problems with that. I had to install automatic lights for her. It wasn't yaris though.

[CrankyOldMan]

I like the way that this thread lives on, despite a lack of feedback from the OP. /shrug

[jack black]

Originally Posted by CrankyOldMan

I like the way that this thread lives on, despite a lack of feedback from the OP. /shrug

Prediction: his thread will go forever with the OP never coming back.

Here is my guess: funny smell coming from the car/driver/occupants combo.

[bairjo]

[quote=jack black;750247]Prediction: his thread will go forever with the OP never coming back.


Beuller?...Beuller?....

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by jack black

Here is my guess: funny smell coming from the car/driver/occupants combo.

[The Limo 2]

In the UK they drive in miles per hour, but when they stop for petrol, they buy it in litres. Sort of half "foreign". But each to their own.
Roy

[mrpj]

Originally Posted by The Limo 2

In the UK they drive in miles per hour, but when they stop for petrol, they buy it in litres. Sort of half "foreign". But each to their own.
Roy

I did say "on our roads".
However, most people still convert those litres into gallons and calculate miles per gallon.
When considering buying a car it's the miles per gallon that partly influence the purchase, not litres/kilometre! Yes, crazy and mixed up.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by mrpj

I did say "on our roads".
However, most people still convert those litres into gallons and calculate miles per gallon.
When considering buying a car it's the miles per gallon that partly influence the purchase, not litres/kilometre! Yes, crazy and mixed up.

.....and then a U.S. audience would translate Imperial gallons into U.S. gallons.

[CKaelin]

Are you driving with just the day time running lights on and not the actual headlights? I Did this once when I first go the Yaris. Got pulled over by a statie! YIKES! Easy to do if you're not used to a car where the running lights are on. You will have no rear lights , however.

[liseky]

I had two people flashing their headlights at me head on over a period of 2 months. It wasn't until I went to turn my brights on, that I'd noticed they'd been on the whole time. The little blue light on my panel wasn't lit to indicate the brights were on and it was always in that day/night crossover so I never even bothered checking or noticing. Not sure why the little blue light is out either!

I have noticed that a lot of motorcycles have flashing headlights. Is this just to make sure you know they're there?

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by liseky

I had two people flashing their headlights at me head on over a period of 2 months. It wasn't until I went to turn my brights on, that I'd noticed they'd been on the whole time. The little blue light on my panel wasn't lit to indicate the brights were on and it was always in that day/night crossover so I never even bothered checking or noticing. Not sure why the little blue light is out either!

I have noticed that a lot of motorcycles have flashing headlights. Is this just to make sure you know they're there?

Much more likely to be a friendly reminder if the 'flasher' is traveling in the opposite direction.

[tk-421]

OP: How about putting up a bumper sticker asking: "WHY ARE YOU FLASHING YOUR LIGHTS AT ME?"
Might encourage some folks to let you know further down the road...

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by tk-421

OP: How about putting up a bumper sticker asking: "WHY ARE YOU FLASHING YOUR LIGHTS AT ME?"
Might encourage some folks to let you know further down the road...

. After the scenario from post #26, I thought...wouldn't it be fun to have a rolling red ticker display facing rearward through the hatch window that could display spoken text (think Dragon NaturallySpeaking, etc.).

[The Limo 2]

Just think. If we were all metric we would all be talking the same language. Would have to translate nothing.
Roy

[tk-421]

That will happen right around the same time they start calling soccer "football".

[WeeYari]

Hello...hello...hello...

Echo...echo...echo...

[phaznet]

Looks like we couldn't save him/her in time.