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Originally Posted by Nightshift
you are wrong and somewhat arrogant in your reply
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Hi Dennis
I was writing a long-winded reply, but I thought it better to keep things brief. [edit: ok, not that brief!]
First of all, I hope we're all friends here at IIS
I didn't intend to be arrogant. Sorry if it came across that way.
Your phrase "EVERY idiot with a piece of garbage Suburu" would be considered arrogant by some, and did raise my ire.
But, hope we can still be friends.
With that out of the way..
If my lights are indeed fog lights, I'll stop using them. I'm a half decent guy. I'll use my parkers, although they are even dimmer than my already dim fog/driving/daytime running lights. I want to use them as I believe it aids visibility of my vehicle, not to say "look at me aren't I great".
QLD appears to be different to NSW and VIC on the subject of fog lights.
Front fog lights are
not illegal in NSW or VIC in non-foggy conditions from what I read in the road rules. The RACV even says "There is no reason to use front fog lights during normal weather conditions,
although this is not illegal."
However, as I've said, I'll stop using them.
On the other topic, IMO there have been too many generalisations made (young drivers, female drivers, etc). I used to teach driving and I only ever had arrogance issues with male learners. There are other factors too, such as many more cars on the road than in the 70's (for e.g), beginners having more powerful cars than back then (despite restrictions) and so on. And yes, general attitudes in society.
I'd lastly like to say that I often hear discussions about 'bad drivers' but it's funny that you only find 'model' drivers at those discussions. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I'm sure I could pick up half a dozen errors or bad practices within a few minutes driving with most of the drivers involved in those discussions (including car control/skill issues, not just road rules). Having said that, I admit I'm not perfect.
Safe driving.