Thread: The M1 in the rain..WTH- GC to Brisbane

When the wife and I were in Noosa we were stunned...

The rain started and the cars stopped

Couldnt understand why people wouldnt drive in the rain....
Its only rain....

Try living with fog for years, you get used to driving with limited visibility.

Originally Posted by hodgo

The answer is very simple COST over along peroid of time its very looooow maintance.

Hodgo

I was told (in the Uk ) that a tramac motorway (6 lanes , 3 each way) 1 mile long , cost the same as 10 miles of concrete motorway (6 lanes , 3 each way)

Originally Posted by tombraider

When the wife and I were in Noosa we were stunned...

The rain started and the cars stopped

Couldnt understand why people wouldnt drive in the rain....
Its only rain....

Try living with fog for years, you get used to driving with limited visibility.

I know the feeling , drives me mad, Maybe because i am a pom and used to rain. Gods knows what they would do if they came across black ice. Now that is fun and certain wakes you up on the way to work on a cold morning

When the wife and I were in Noosa we were stunned...

The rain started and the cars stopped

Couldnt understand why people wouldnt drive in the rain....
Its only rain....

Try living with fog for years, you get used to driving with limited visibility.
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Mate, common occurance as per my initial post. The day I wrote that, exactly that happened, slow down for sure, but yank on the breaks...WTF....I thought there had been a car accident or something....nope just rain,

Regards

Stevo

Just a piece of advice for general freeway driving - if I come up to a stationary or slow moving column of traffic, I just punch the hazard lights for a couple of flashes to let the cars behind know that I'm not just braking to slow dow a little bit, but a LOT.

This is common practice in Europe and you will probably NEVER have to worry about being rear-ended again. Even if they have not seen anybody do this before, people instinctively brake harder when they see the hazards go on the car in front.

Incidentally, some cars with LED tail-lights now have progressive brakelights which flash like hazards when a lot of brake force is applied (a bit like F1 cars).

Originally Posted by solmanic

Just a piece of advice for general freeway driving - if I come up to a stationary or slow moving column of traffic, I just punch the hazard lights for a couple of flashes to let the cars behind know that I'm not just braking to slow dow a little bit, but a LOT.

This is common practice in Europe and you will probably NEVER have to worry about being rear-ended again. Even if they have not seen anybody do this before, people instinctively brake harder when they see the hazards go on the car in front.

Incidentally, some cars with LED tail-lights now have progressive brakelights which flash like hazards when a lot of brake force is applied (a bit like F1 cars).

I had a Pug 406 which when you hit the brakes hard the hazard lights came on automatically

Hey Stevo,
funny I read this after coming down yesterday from Noosa rained nearly all the way, the M1, 110kmph section was wet and I slowed down for the conditions, then you wouldn;t read about it another one of my pet hates decided i wasn;t going fast enough so he sat on my bumper and and started tooting and flicking his headlights, so what did I do, had to accelerate away because i didn;t feel safe, so much for a 3 second gap, where do you go when there is traffic everywhere???
I love digital cameras ( this photo is going to the local gendarmes)

funny he backed off after the flash on the camera I think.





john

Originally Posted by JohnE

so he sat on my bumper and and started tooting and flicking his headlights,

Looking at that photo - you ARE NOT IN THE LEFT LANE (one of MY pet hates) so it's no wonder the truck driver was getting agitated. Australians just don't seem to understand how multi-lane freeway driving should work. We drive like Americans where it's everyman for themselves, pick a lane and if you want to get past just change to another - left or right.

The proper method for freeway driving is EVERYONE should start in the left lane (not the second to left or middle lanes - the LEFT lane). Then overtaking is ONLY done to the right. If you want to overtake the car in front and someone is already coming up behind you in the next lane - put your indicator on and they should then pull right into the next lane to let you pull out.

This goes on in a cascading fashion so only the fastest traffic is using the far right lane and the majority of traffic is in the left and middle (or second to left on the M1) lanes.

No excuse for dangerous driving on the truck driver's part however.