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| ![]() 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. |
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BHPian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chennai
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| ![]() 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. Quote:
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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 ![]() Quote:
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() 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 |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() 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. |
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| ![]() Highway driving during the day -- Hill driving at night !! |
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BHPian Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: London
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| ![]() 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 Quote:
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() I prefer night driving. But my favourite time is between 4-7am this is the time when it feels like evening just that minus the traffic. the best time you can accelerate as fast as you want to, as light is there and less traffic. CR-V |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangalore
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gurgaon
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| ![]() Agree with khaadu here. Besides the mind block - you can hear the next soul miles away. Only issue with offbeat destinations is that it can get a bit scary ![]() |
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In what way is driving in the ghats at night so much better ? ![]() In fact the way I see it, taking a ghat in the night would make it .. -Difficult to spot potholes and craters -You cannot see for sure what is beyond the road should you be forced to go off-road due to an oncoming truck -Frequently blinded by oncoming Buses and Trucks.. Imagine 2 buses just cross from the opp direction at a hairpin bend, You first have to wait for the blinding effect to fade out. -The road on a ghat section is never a level road its either a climb or a descend and If you are at a junction where the road goes up and then comes down, at the point where the descend starts you will not have a clear view of the road ahead, cause your headlights will be focussed on the open air. (Until your car actually starts to descend) | |
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BHPian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chennai
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- Many vehicles travel without lights and some with only one light; you may never be able to even hear them especially if you have the windows up, the AC on and the music on flow (now dont tell me that you should not have the windows up, the AC on and the music on flow when driving! We will gang up and ban you to the stone ages - well, if not that far, atleast to the era where these features were not available on cars - just joking, not meant to hurt anybodys feelings). - What about animals on the road at night in a curve or a dip in the road? yet to see animals sauntering around flashing their warning lights! - All the other reasons common to night driving apply to driving in the ghats too. | |||
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![]() Animals on the road really do not need flashlight.. if you have ever driven at night you might have noticed most animals eyes shine and glow ...looks scary though ...don't stare though... ![]() | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gurgaon
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| ![]() The glass is either half full or half empty. Its all in your eyes. The same evidence is interpreted extremely subjectively. I am pretty sure that hardly anyone would've changed their stance ![]() Takes experience on either side to believe! |
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