Day Driving or Night Driving?

[aaggoswami]

I mostly ride bike. Sometimes on highway and mostly in City.
I prefer day driving becasue.
Positive points:
I am able to see the traffic.
Better visiblity in natural light.
Most of other road users know I am on the road. ( Its totally different they dont act in disciplined manner ).
Negatives:
Useless cops and traffic jam, scenes that would give Mental Hospital patients a cardiac arrest.

Night: I dont perfer driving in the night.
Positives:
Excellent situation to test your luck and to know if God persists.

Negatives:
Each and every headlight in high beam or low beam targetting at my eyes.
I cant see road nor pedestrians. Just blinding headlights.
More senseless driving. People are not aware what they are doing. Even hitler knew he was doing wrong thing. But here its really more bad.

[Murugan]

Day driving any Day!

There is no doubt that day driving is safer in every way. Many positives of day and negatives of night driving have been mentioned; I will not repeat them.

Shops, eateries, fuel pumps, service stations etc are always open during the day.

Originally Posted by eclectix 1st

Preferred time would be Day, but am not averse to Night driving as long as the Highway has a divider, separating me from the oncoming traffic.

Forget it - the divider is no protection. Believe me - The number of times I've seen 2 wheelers, lorries and even state transport buses on the wrong side of the divider - ghastly. Some times they are close to the divider (on the wrong side) and on a right curve - you will see them only at the last minute - since the saner among us drive only on the left side of the road in India.

Originally Posted by abhibh

I prefer day driving when driving on highways but on hills i prefer night driving and when i m driving i never feel sleepy.

Originally Posted by kuttapan

If in the ghats, I would pick night driving anyday(except when travelling with family to enjoy the scenery) -

Ghats should be the last place to drive at night (unless it is an emergency). Having to go off-road to avoid anything may mean having to go off-hill! A sure recipe for disaster.

Originally Posted by clevermax

Apart from the disadvantages mentioned against night driving already in this thread, I'd like to add one more:

At night you tend to misjudge the distances of the oncoming vehicles from your car according to their headlight's intensity. A brighter headlight makes you think that the vehicle is nearer than where it is, and a dimmer headlight makes you think it is farther from where it is - this could lead to accidents while overtaking.

Have seen many people including me mis-judge distances of oncoming traffic at night. Fully agree with you.

Originally Posted by HappyWheels

Add to this some of the great people who ride with one of the lights blown. It is usually the right one and they will be traveling in high beam.

Net result, if you are not careful enough, you tend to misjudge the amount of space you have on your right, a perfect recipe for disaster!

Any number of such instances.

I know this is an old joke but once it actually happened to me in the city around 10 PM. A two wheeler rider kept coming for the middle of my bonnet from the opposite direction and I braked rapidly. He had the gumption to tell me that he thought it was two 2 wheelers and he could go in between the two head-lights - no doubt he was drunk to kingdom come.

Originally Posted by sumeethaldankar

The temperature is cooler-so no A/c,you save fuel and wear and tear of the A/C components.Plus the air is cooler so engine remains cool-No tension of having the car overheat especially while climbing ghats.Also the road surface is not hot...so tyres dont heat up comparitively on hot summer.

Originally Posted by humyum

With 6/6 vision and right pair of prescription glasses night driving anyday. Cool air into the intake,engine at its best,No ac required hence no power loss. Dim,dip and zip.

Forget saving wear and tear of your car - avoid wear, tear AND breakage to yourself, your co-passengers and other road users please !

[sumeethaldankar]

Have seen many people including me mis-judge distances of oncoming traffic at night. Fully agree with you.



Dear Murugan,
When you are not able to judge the distance of the traffic coming from the
other side of the road, what will you do? I think you will probably stick with the
right side of your road.What this will do?It will keep you safe.Now if you were to the driving during day ,won't you be overtaking more than than you would have
done while driving at night. have seen people overtake dangerously at day just because they are able to judge the distance better during day

[shankar.balan]

Day Driving on Highways definitely preferred. Less eye strain especially since our highways arent all that well lit. Plus other traffic violates rules very easily in terms of not having proper lights etc so chances of danger are very high - maybe not your fault but you end up paying the price for someone else's fault.

[khaadu75]

Highway driving during the day -- Hill driving at night !!

[Jeep]

What the hell??? He engaged reverse gear since he dozed off???

I am leaving for Kerala tomorrow evening and will be extra careful. Prefer starting early in the morning however can't do it most of the time

Originally Posted by hellstar

Once while at the Krishnagiri Toll plaza a truck driver who dozed off shifted into reverse gear and accelerated back into me luckily there was no one behind me so i could engage reverse and scramble out of the way of the truck ..just in time ...and this was at about 0330 hrs .

For me night driving is a personal choice .....