100 car pile up in fog

[zaax]

Well not yet. Although there has been a large number of smaller crashes.
why †˜o why don't drivers drive to the conditions?

[Wolf]

junction 32 to 33 M4 cardiff is screwed due to wan*ers driving up arses and probably even bigger wan*ers who drive onto motorways and bypasses to slow..as in less than 60mph, COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!!!! Car A is doing 70mph, what speed does car B need to be doing in order not to be killed???

[bob_a_builder]

Originally Posted by Wolf

junction 32 to 33 M4 cardiff is screwed due to wan*ers driving up arses and probably even bigger wan*ers who drive onto motorways and bypasses to slow..as in less than 60mph, COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!!!! Car A is doing 70mph, what speed does car B need to be doing in order not to be killed???

I agree maybe the driver in car B needs to wait to join the m-way/bypass until the wan*er in car A doing 70mph in the fog has got a good distance in front, he'll find the accident first and driver in car B will be forewarned by a flurry of brake lights ahead. - Or maybe you don't get fog in that neck of the woods !

[Stuart W]

Playing devils advocate, I feel the need to defend fog speeders......


Not a great deal of people realise that the way we judge speed is related to the level of contrast recieved by our eyes. In clear sunny conditions, there is a level contrast to the picture our eyes see and we judge speed effectivly. At night, we drive with white headlights under orange / yellow street lamps. This causes a little confusion for the brain and it see's this as an over-contrast picture and thus, we percieve that we are actualy going faster.
In fog, we get bad white out and only poor shades of other objects (other traffic, trees, scenery etc.) giving poor contrast, so the brain percieves we are traveling much slower than we actually are.

So, in a nutshell, we all know how it 'feels' faster driving in the dark, we just don't realise it feels slower in fog.

My best advice to fog speeders would be to look down at the spedo a little more often and believe what it tells you.

[Wolf]

Originally Posted by bob_a_builder

I agree maybe the driver in car B needs to wait to join the m-way/bypass until the wan*er in car A doing 70mph in the fog has got a good distance in front, he'll find the accident first and driver in car B will be forewarned by a flurry of brake lights ahead. - Or maybe you don't get fog in that neck of the woods !

LOL! oh so true...but car B if doing 70mph and ahead of Car A means no struggle getting on motorway, plus then they can cause an accident further up the road and save car A's life.