Flashing Headlights - Do You Do This?

[Art Shirk]

Arguing with me, repeatedly, says otherwise. Rock on trucker cap!


I'm glad that we've decided that whats rarely done - cars turning off their lights - is now etiquette.

If you wanted to tell him that he is wrong, why didnt you just tell him that he grossly underestimated your actual total number of posts?

[Hugh Conway]

If you wanted to tell him that he is wrong, why didnt you just tell him that he grossly underestimated your actual total number of posts?

congrats on a Hugh-level douche post there, counselor. could you give us another car purchase life-blog, please? some other of your patented smug-douche that somehows differentiable from other smug useless e-douche? Fuckstick.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

That or they think you drive like an asshole. Hey, wait, didn't you post a thread like this on NWHikers?

comparing and contrasting responses here vs. there is often entertaining.

ETA: FTR, a friend of mine killed himself and two other people that way.

I can only hope I don't make the same mistake.

I will admit that the option to hit the brakes and get back to the end of the line has been the best choice before. I wonder if sometimes people forget they have that option? (Not intended as speculation about Steve's friend.)


Those old GL wagons are sweet! I've always wanted to get one with the 4WD, put a 2.2 or 2.5 in it, Forester struts, big tires and go wheeling.

[wooley12]

I flash to ask a slower driver to move over so I can pass on the left. An old habit left over from when passing on the right was illegal. I did flash someone who passed me on the right of an off ramp as I exited in my dump truck. He slowed to a stop seemingly want to have some words. I now carry a hammer with a wrist strap.

This. I routinely have to blast by up to 10 cars on the 395 to or from Mammoth, as they are lined up, all going 55 and no one is passing the slow camper up front. Pretty exciting to pass 10 cars at 110+, on a two lane highway.

Curious. How much time do you save by taking that risk?

[plugboots]

Lots.
....

[DJSapp]

Curious. How much time do you save by taking that risk?

As someone who has previously made the LA-->Mammoth commute, a lot of time. Like 30 min-2 hours depending on the circumstances. Being stuck behind the slow boat for 120 miles is AWFUL. 395 is a lonely road...

[Hugh Conway]

As someone who has previously made the LA-->Mammoth commute, a lot of time. Like 30 min-2 hours depending on the circumstances. Being stuck behind the slow boat for 120 miles is AWFUL. 395 is a lonely road...

2 hours? Bullshit. Slow cars are annoying but the time limiter was always, for me, the speed traps in the little burgs. I'm baffled how you could ever get stuck behind a slow boat for 120 miles unless you are too busy multitasking on your bluetooth headset but clearly opinions and mileage (and opinions of said mileage) vary highly.

[Art Shirk]

congrats on a Hugh-level douche post there, counselor. could you give us another car purchase life-blog, please? some other of your patented smug-douche that somehows differentiable from other smug useless e-douche? Fuckstick.

Breathe...

[DJSapp]

Let's see Hugh... 120 miles at 40 mph = 3 hours vs 120 miles at 90 mph = 1.3 hours (it's the fucking desert during a 300+ mile drive, get a radar detector).

Yeah, almost 2 hours, EACH GODDAMN WAY.

[Hugh Conway]

Let's see Hugh... 120 miles at 40 mph = 3 hours vs 120 miles at 90 mph = 1.3 hours (it's the fucking desert during a 300+ mile drive, get a radar detector).

Yeah, almost 2 hours, EACH GODDAMN WAY.

The choices are 10 car blind pass or being stuck behind a boat going 40mph for 120 miles? There's a passing opportunity every 10 miles or less by memory. But I do like your admitting to TGR math where 1.3 hrs = 2hrs. Fuckstick. Maybe you, commonlaw and kied could form a special-ed drivers training school.

[DJSapp]

The choices are 10 car blind pass or being stuck behind a boat going 40mph for 120 miles? There's a passing opportunity every 10 miles or less by memory. But I do like your admitting to TGR math where 1.3 hrs = 2hrs. Fuckstick. Maybe you, commonlaw and kied could form a special-ed drivers training school.

Wow Hugh, put the vape down. 3-1.3=1.7 (1 hour 45min, almost 2), and NOWHERE did liv2ski mention if it was a blind pass. On most of 395 you can see for miles and miles in front of you. Yes, there are some passing opportunities, but when you're stacked 10 deep, and only 3 cars pass in the 4 lane area, you pass on the two lane.

But keep going, you're the voice of experience here.

[Hugh Conway]

Yes, there are some passing opportunities

Some? Some? And you are patronizing me? How many fucking boats are there ever going 40 mph (OR EVEN THE FUCKING 55MPH livski MENTIONED) on 395? Answer: none. Fuckstick.

[irul&ublo]

[DasBlunt]

It is one of the stupidest moves in driving. In other countries, deaths from cars passing like that on mountainous roads is common. Only fuck-tards in a civilized society think that is a thrill, taking lives into your hands for your personal thrill.

You making a thread about your inability to understand subtle communication (flashing of lights) from the rest of the world as they try to warn you of your apparent stupidity while driving, however, proves just how funny this thread is, thanks!

Well then, it's a good thing I drive in this country.





So you're one of the people that does this or you know what it means when someone flashes their headlights after they've been legally passed? Please professor driver instructor, tell us, because no one else in this thread has been able to.

Wow dude, you are clueless. Still funny!!

[wooley12]

If I had to hit 100 mph to pass 10 cars I'd be worried about car #2 pulling out.

[grrrr]

I can go a hundred miles an hour,
long as I got the almighty power
riding on the dashboard of my car.

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car.

[PNWbrit]

[toast2266]

passing cars?!?! OMG! YOU'RE GONNA DIE!

Das Cunt is a fucking pussy. no pun intended.

[GeezerSteve]

You pass scary sometimes, Will...

This pwnage from a professional driver with firsthand knowledge of Will's driving habits You go, J

[grrrr]

I did hit 100 passing a line of school buses on the Mt. Baker Highway once...

[skiballs]

Old l2ski was just high on the lord.

I was drivin’ home early Sunday morning
Through Bakersfield,
Listening to gospel music on the coloured radio station,
And the preacher said: “You know you always have the lord by your side”
And I was so pleased to be informed of this
That I ran twenty red lights in his honour,
Thank you Jesus, thank you lord

[shaft]

Anybody remember the "Passing Light" on the 1980 Subaru wagon?

That's awesome! May as well throw Audi's Rear blinding light in this thread.



mtngrl...I feel like an idiot for flashing high beams all these years when it should've just been headlights. I'll be changing that from here on out.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

LOL - a professional driver who admittedly drives like a grandma. A safe and courteous grandma, but a grandma nonetheless. J, you really don't want to go down this road.

And still, I'm not talking about "scary" passing, whatever that is. Heck, I had someone do this to me the other day on a 4-lane freeway (2 lanes each direction). They were in the right lane in an old pickup full of junk doing like 50 mph, which is just fine. I went by them in the left lane @ 65 and they started flashing their lights. WTF? This is the kind of thing I'm baffled by.

@ Dasblunt - yes, yes I am admittedly clueless about why people flash their headlights after being passed. As I've said repeatedly, I can't figure it out though I believe Iceman and Liv2ski have it right. It's probably indignation at some kind of perceived insult, as if the fact that someone wants to drive faster than them means the person driving faster is WRONG and must be PUNISHED. Punished by flashing headlights, which still makes no sense. Can you explain this to me please? Maybe you could, but that big wad of smug up your ass has the only orifice you possess that's ever emitted a recognizable noise so choked up you can't clearly articulate your superior knowledge to an idiotic peon like myself. Please, carry on professor. And when does your line of cologne come out?

[Chainsaw_Willie]

passing cars?!?! OMG! YOU'RE GONNA DIE!

This.

This thread is now obviously going down the road of "you must be doing it wrong. You must be some kind of reckless lunatic. Passing is DANGEROUS, don't you know you could kill someone?!?!"

[Hugh Conway]

This thread is now obviously going down the road of "you must be doing it wrong. You must be some kind of reckless lunatic. Passing is DANGEROUS, don't you know you could kill someone?!?!"

It's a driving thread on TGR. You can either pass 10 cars going 100+mph or you are driving like a grandparent. And when you get pulled over, you just use Dan Samas. And if you've multiple accidents where you either rear end someone or someone rear ends you in a couple years, it's because everyone else on the road is an idiot.