Help me understand

[oldsoul]

I'll start by saying that I am a professional heavy truck driver specializing in hazardous materials. Therefore, because of my profession, I have extensive training, experience, and have to think about safety on a much higher level that the average driver. So, I need YOUR help in understanding something.

This morning I was driving in HEAVY fog. Visibility was down to about 100yds in most places, maybe 150yds for headlights and tail lights. As a guess(I didn't do a count), about 75-80% of drivers had just DRLs on, if anything at all. Traffic was slowed, some, but not much(maybe 5mph slower than usual). I can only think of a couple of reasons that people would do this.

1. Didn't really think it through at all.
2. I can see ok, so it'll be fine.
3. My DRLs are on so that's good enough.
4. I like to live dangerously.

I have my guess as to what the answer is. What is your opinion on this?

 

[Beauji]

i like these types of shout out, thanks.
the difference for me (my opinion, as old saying goes, an opinion is like an a$$, everyone's got a least one) thinking and believing are two different things, believing all's gonna be alright no need to waste energy applying the four flashes or slowing down or even the night lights (so we can see the brake lights and the vehicle) tink technology have rendered humans on most part to be perfect as planned obsolescence. Its just my constipated theory... tin hat or active imagination

 

[TurboABA]

You're driving in NA, and people are mostly ignorant on this continent.
They are constantly being spoon fed, so these days, most drivers don't even know there are switches for things like lights & wipers, etc.
Most newer, modern vehicles have automated lights, high beams, rain sensing wipers, etc. which only create lazier and more ignorant people.
Can you imagine having to flick your own light on, or wipers, or turn off your high beams when oncoming traffic is in front of you? Oh, the horror!

So, I'll take option #5 please
5. I'm hoping someone rear ends me so that I can sue them and spend the rest of my life collecting handouts while watching TV, etc.

 

[oldsoul]

This option also crossed my mind, alas I'm in a generous mood and have the ignorant masses the benefit of the doubt.

However, I wouldn't stop at vehicles making people this way. It is the entire society. I mean, imagine if we had to go to a store, select a movie, go home to watch it, then rewind the tape before we brought it back to the store! My my, how did we ever survive? Then there's the way I learned to do research! The horrors of going to the library, learning AND using the Dewey Decimal System, finding a book and reading it, just to find out it didn't have the information I needed! And don't get me started on how we had to go outside and find our own way of passing those hot summer days! No AC, no smart phone, no streaming mindless videos. Oh, how ever did we survive?!

In all seriousness though, most people never learned that driving on public roads is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Furthermore, most people get their license at 16-18 years old, then commence driving for the next 50+years without a single second of further training, nor being required to show anyone that they still know what the hell they are doing.

 

[TurboABA]

Furthermore, most people get their license at 16-18 years old, then commence driving for the next 50+years without a single second of further training, nor being required to show anyone that they still know what the hell they are doing.

Ha.... don't even go there.....
Up in my hood, all the driving instructors come from poverty countries where they didn't even own vehicles and spent most of their prior lives riding a camel or a donkey.... but over here in glorious Canada, they are qualified to train everyone else how to do what they themselves can't.