Looks like it might be India? It used to be that everyone had them folded in because they would get snapped off in traffic. Also the noise from horns is loud AF. Still not great, but context matters.
I don’t get why everyone is complaining about the folded mirrors when she has pixels all over her eyes.
I don’t care about the earphones. May as well say the deaf can’t drive.
Yea, earphones aren’t going to make a difference, or maybe you shouldn’t drive with a radio on? Or that the sound deadening in the car doesn’t already block most of the sound outside the car.
Not only is it illegal in several countries, it is also proven to negatively impact attention and reaction times.
The earphones aren’t a problem per se, if you listen with approrpriate sound where you can still hear an ambulance coming or a car horn. I don’t think this person is doing that, but lets guve them the benefit of the doubt. But the mirrors folded is next level stupudity. There is no doubt that this person should be driving at all.
It’s illegal. And we need more people getting caught and held accountable.
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It’s not universally illegal in every country.
Aside from like an F1 race, I don’t know of a single place where it’s legal to wear headphones while operating a motor vehicle.
Its dangerous not to wear hearing protection on motorcycles over like 60mph for long rides and much shorter rides if you go slower.
The folded mirrors is probably to avoid clipping stuff in tight city streets. They’re probably driving slower than walking.
This is a poor person driving. I don’t see the big deal.
I see worse luxury car drivers every day.
I don’t quite see how a persons bank account is relevant?
Wealth and entitlement isn’t relevant you say?
Yes in a community about the problems cars pose, in a post about a bad driver.
I don’t quite see how a persons bank account is relevant
In a community about the problems that cars pose, you don’t think class has any factor in this or are you just performatively against cars?
In a community about the problems that cars pose, we don’t give people a pass for being careless simply based on how shitty their car may be.
(Also this photo was taken in India. That woman is richer than 80% of the population based solely on the fact that she owns a car)
That is important context.
More like 92%.
So those mirrors would have been literally smacking into throngs of pedestrians on all sides if they weren’t folded.
What’s behind me is behind me. I look only to the future.
She’s preoccupied with the thought of picking up a delicious weet cornb.
There’s a number of things that I strongly believe should result in an automatic short term suspension, because the driver clearly has no fucking clue what they’re doing. Driving without lights lights off at night (I don’t give a shit about your auto lights, turn them on manually because it’s not working) and driving with folded mirrors are two of the items. Failing to clear snow off glass is another.
Driving with two earphones in is a problem. They simply do a better job of blocking ambient sound than the car speakers. People get mad ad pedestrians or cyclists who don’t hav situational awareness because of their headphones; drivers have a greater responsibility because of the size of their vehicle.
Driving without lights lights off at night
I had a cop cite me for turning my bright-ass bicycle light off at night while riding on a quiet, lit sidewalk at 2am.
That is entirely different than grandma getting in a black car and driving on a pitch black night, or a white car leaving their lights off during heavy rain and doing 20 below in the left hand lane.
driving with folded mirrors
I have had drivers who forgot to leave room at a stoplight fold their mirror to let me and the dozen other motorcycles by at a light.
Anything that is likely to have nuance can’t have zero-tolerance policies or you’re subjecting a bunch of people to disproportionate to unjust punishment.
If you were close enough to a car on a motorcycle that they had to fold their mirror in then you were too close and there was no room.
Its vietnam, being inches from cars and other bikes happens every single time you go somewhere, whether by bike or walking. If I had blocked everyone behind me, I would have created a dangerous situation.
Usually there is enough room. The cagers are just scared I’ll clip the mirror.
Mind you I don’t live in the US and the lanes are much narrower on average, also people don’t have guns.
At long light cycles I will duck and weave between lanes and around mirrors as much as necessary to reach the front. As is legal in my state.
Meanwhile OP seems to be driving with their seatbelt off because it’s out of focus frame left
I think(well sure) that is passenger side, because driver is on the right. And so this picture would have to be taken from outside the driver side to catch the seatbelt.
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probably still safer than the average super insulated modern vehicle with blinding headlights, massive blind spots, and a cockpit lit up like an airport so the driver’s night vision is ruined
It was a really snowy day.
Their entire car was covered with snow, except for an eyeslit the size of a business envelope for the driver to look out of.
Crazy people in giant metal boxes.
Years ago I used to live relatively close to a car wash. During the winter months I would pay for a monthly subscription to the car wash. On cold mornings with heavy snowfall I would clear enough of my car to see both wing mirrors, out part of the back windshield, and part of the front windshield, enough that, being very vigilant, I had a good sense of my surroundings. I’d then drive directly to the car wash, which would clear the rest of my car for me while I stayed in the nice warm car.
I stand by this practice, but I was more attentive than usual in my driving on those mornings.
My driver was on a heavily used street, with no way to see out the back or side.
Yeah that’s irresponsible.
The car isn’t the problem, the idiocy is the problem
That’s kinda like saying guns aren’t the problem.
For guns, the problem is that any idiot can buy and use one pretty easily. The checks are minimal. Same as with cars. Idiot’s fault either way.
But for guns you can only get and carry one if you’re a moron in america, in almost no other countries is it that easy.
Was anyone unaware of that? I don’t think the community name has to be “cars are bad mainly because of the shit ass culture that comes with them” to make valid points.
FuckIdiots would be the name then
Idiots are especially dangerous in cars.
How about knives? Pans? Ladders? Having children? I don’t see a FuckKnives community
Ah, so straight up CarBrain. I gave you the benefit of doubt by thinking you were just being weirdly pedantic.
What’s with the sun visor? Looks like a partially deflated helium balloon to me.
Looks like she put a plastic bag over the visor
Some kind of a tissue bah attached to it?
headphones are perfectly normal
No the fuck it isn’t
There’s no problem with driving with earphones.
The mirrors are a problem though
