Driving with Hazards On!

Gau 8 wrote:
Eric,
I won't argue semantics with you. Imagine you are in a driving rain and can only see a short distance. You are in heavy traffic and can't get to the side of the road.. Cars around you start turning on their flashers while they are still moving. Now you don't know if they are stopped and you are about to plow into them.. You tap your brakes and risk being rear ended. It was a very scary position. That is my point.

If the vis is good and you are moving slowly, yeah maybe. Not in a driving rain with bad vis.. If it is that bad , get off the roadway and flash away.

When I was taught to drive (now there's something that doesn't happen anymore), I was told that when visibility was low, to never pull off to the side and leave your lights on or you foot on the brakes. We didn't have flashers. The point being, you didn't want other drivers to follow your lead thinking you were driving on the road and slam into your parked car. If you pulled off, you were to turn off all lights. Now-a-days, I think that would include flashers a we would avoid the dangerous situation you describe.

Eric