Hypermiling & Daylight Savings time

Waynetc · #1 10-27-2007, 09:27 PM

Has anyone experienced more aggressive driving behavior behind them now that the days are getting "shorter"? I know that out here in NE Ohio where it will start to get dark about 5:15 in a week I already have.

Any thoughts about lighting "effects" besides using blinkers to warn those flying up on them to slow down or just pass??

thanks
Wayne

psyshack · #2 10-28-2007, 11:07 AM

Not here.

They seem to drive like idiots. Be it dusk, dawn, day or night. It does seem the time change and amount of sunlight a day does affect some people. Its never bothered me.

Chuck · #3 10-29-2007, 09:28 AM

Since so many drivers act like animals on the asphalt jungle, my fantasy accessory would be a holographic projector that would make my car seem like a big rig, tank, etc.

laurieaw · #4 10-29-2007, 09:44 AM

ROFMAO.........chuck, you design it and i will buy one

my biggest gripe with the ending of daylight time is so much commuting will now be in darkness. as i mentioned in another thread, i really don't like to FAS in the dark, but since i will continue to drive slow, i will probably make more use of my flashers, since oncoming idiots, errrr.....drivers, probably can't tell if i move over a little to leave them room to pass.

hobbit · #5 10-29-2007, 02:24 PM

slightly OT -- last night was my first instance of using the
Yuppie Button in a way visible to a state cop. A pickup was
close and closing at 55+ [the PSL] in the middle lane [I was
there to avoid a whole pile of people entering], and I had
nowhere safe to go, so I issued the usual "back off" warning.
It didn't very much, but as the cars to my right started to sort
themselves out and accelerated more, the second or so member
of that line was a Statie who *had* to have seen the oddball
combination of lights come on. But he just cruised ahead a
little [too close to those ahead, I might add] and got off at
the next exit less than half a mile later. By which time I
was back in the right lane and the pickup was merrily heading
off toward the next compression wave.
.
If the Statie actually saw it, hopefully he understood what
it was all about.
.
_H*

six · #6 11-05-2007, 12:46 AM

I suppose this continues this thread more directly, but I have recently ordered a bumper sticker that reads "FLAMMABLE MATERIALS, DO NOT TAILGATE". We'll see if this changes the behavior of the idiots that ride up on me and flash their brights five or six times before remembering that they have a *steering wheel* (gasp) and are capable of *passing*...