Quote Originally Posted by glenn_duke View Post
I dont recommend flashing the hazzard lights during sudden braking, because in this situation both your hands should be in the steering wheel, to steer away safely if possible in case you dont have enough braking distance. If the stop is momentary no need for the hazzard lights, just keep your foot on the brake pedal.
You don't enable it manually. Emergency/sudden braking triggers it. It is already available in many modern vehicles. Or at the least, it's starting to become more common.



In inclement weather with low visibility, especially at night, dont trust drivers around you to drive sensibly. With our drivers licensing system screwed and source of corruption, not many drivers out there are fit to be drivers. And more ammusing this drivers will surely answer the lto question on hazzard lights correctly, thanks to the fixers for the tip.

On the night of the fatal bus accident at NLEX, 8 cars and suv were involved in a collision near the malinta exit. I believe the drivers of each car passes and saw the bus accident site and yet took no precaution and end up in their own accident. There is also one that is not reported, on the same night a truck rear ended a private jeep near the bocaue exit. So drivers driving sensibly to conditions, sadly, hardly exist in the Philippines.
That would've been fine to use the flashers as people drove by.

Hazzard lights unless modified, are not design to blind nor impair the vision of the drivers behind. Just like the example in my previous post, 30 left turning cars with turn lights on is no different to 15 side by side cars with hazzards light on.
Blinding in a sense that it masks other things. You see, the nuance between a tail light that is turned on and a tail light with the brakes applied, can be masked, to a certain extent, by the blinking hazard lamps. Also, 30 left turning cars only takes a few seconds to a couple of minutes to disappear or dissipate, and they're likely to be stopped anyway and gives you some freedom to look at other things. But driving with the hazard flashers on the road, and you'll be following that car (or cars) for miles.

Different situations.

But anyway, I think I've said my piece. One of the reasons this forum exists is so that we can teach each other to be better drivers, regardless of the corrupt norms in Philippine traffic. We should try to be the bigger man as best as we can.