driving in a downpour

[jodski]

Respect the water ... Ease up on your speed

I had a close call 20 years ago when I was driving a pickup on a heavy downpour and I hydroplaned at 85 KPH and I went on the opposite lane. Good thing there was no oncoming traffic on the opposite lane until I regained control...

After that incident I can't go over 70 KPH when there's a downpour.

[Retz]

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hydroplaned na *85kph? grabe naman yan sir. i was thinking na above 120kph tska magkaroon ng hydroplaned if ever.

[jut703]

Good luck telling people to stop on the side of the road when it gets so bad that tail lights and the road isn't visible.

I see the value in keeping the hazard lights off, but it's hard to convince people when sometimes tail lights aren't enough. Yes, we can all slow down and be more cautious, and from my experience, people really slow down by about 20-30 kph in very heavy rain. But looking through the lens of hazard light believers, they'd say that they'd rather see the car in front of them at all times, than only see them when they change lanes.

In the metro, it's fine since traffic is slow and lots of lights abound, but on SLEX or other provincial roads, where you can go several kilometers without roadside lamps, visibility is crucial.

[chris_d]

Sa akin lang I don't mind na naka hazard lights yung iba kasi at least alam ko na sila yung either nde sanay mag drive sa ulan or nahihirapan makakita. Pero sana lang lalo na kung nasa skyway or slex wag naman naka hazard habang tumatakbo at 30kph sa fast lane.

[glenn_duke]

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hydroplaned na *85kph? grabe naman yan sir. i was thinking na above 120kph tska magkaroon ng hydroplaned if ever.

Baka over inflated ang gulong

[jut703]

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hydroplaned na *85kph? grabe naman yan sir. i was thinking na above 120kph tska magkaroon ng hydroplaned if ever.

Pick-up yan eh. Magaan ang likod tapos RWD.

[Retz]

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most probably sir.

[coiter]

But looking through the lens of hazard light believers, they'd say that they'd rather see the car in front of them at all times, than only see them when they change lanes.

add to this the thinking that a lot of drivers don't use their signal lights anyway.

yung mga di masyado nakakakita ng tail lights pag umuulan, sila rin siguro ang nagjujustify na naka bright lagi dahil sa super dark tints

[Type 100]

While I make it a point to tell anyone who I can influence to not turn on their hazard lights under heavy downpour, I've also personally experienced rain that's so hard that rear tail lights are hard to see. Hazard lights are brighter than tail lights (about as bright as brake lights) so it really does increase visibility. What can you internet experts say about that?

You can't expect people to add RFLs so they make do with what they have. A lot of people never ever change anything in their cars, save for necessary maintenance.

The easiest workaround is to periodically dab the brake pedal to light up the brake lights. This is the recommended practice in the US when driving through fog without rear fog lights. The red flashing you induce in this manner should already catch the attention of people driving behind you without resorting to fortune-telling with hazard blinkers.

This also goes hand-in-hand with not tailgating at speed.

[sag0]

pansin ko sa highway (NLEX, SLEX) pag biglang bumuhos ang malakas na ulan, pag may nag umpisa nang magbukas ng hazard, ang dami nang gagaya at sunod sunod na sila magbubukas ng hazard lights...