What car/driving related urban myths have you heard of?
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http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/rolls.asp
The above link tells of the classic 'Rolls Royces don't break down' myth that my Dad told me.
What myths have you heard of, and have you found any to actually be the truth?
The above link tells of the classic 'Rolls Royces don't break down' myth that my Dad told me.
What myths have you heard of, and have you found any to actually be the truth?
Alfanatic said:
I've heard this one a few times:
"If you're driving at night and see a car being driven around without its lights on, don't flash the driver to alert them! It's a gangster / gang / etc initiation in progress. The new gangster has to prove that they have the guts to kill, they find a target by driving around at night without their lights on. The first person to flash them nominates themselves as the random victim, so if you flash them they'll follow you home and murder you!!"
Uh huh. Brilliant. Let them carry on driving around with no lights on and crash, because they're more likely to be a gangster looking for a meaningless victim in a peculiarly complicated way than they are to be someone who has forgotten to turn their lights on and has not yet noticed.
Isn't it under the road traffic act or some such legislation that you can actually drive around in a street light lit area with only your side lights on? "If you're driving at night and see a car being driven around without its lights on, don't flash the driver to alert them! It's a gangster / gang / etc initiation in progress. The new gangster has to prove that they have the guts to kill, they find a target by driving around at night without their lights on. The first person to flash them nominates themselves as the random victim, so if you flash them they'll follow you home and murder you!!"
Uh huh. Brilliant. Let them carry on driving around with no lights on and crash, because they're more likely to be a gangster looking for a meaningless victim in a peculiarly complicated way than they are to be someone who has forgotten to turn their lights on and has not yet noticed.
JonnyFive said:
Yeah, it's legal to drive around in street lamp lit areas at 30mph limit IIRC.
Yep, a quick google search threw this up:http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Hig...
Now that I know, the next time I'm driving in such an area at night, I'm not going to use the
headlights (unless conditions dictate otherwise) just to see how others react.
No doubt I'll get shouts from pedestrians, and other drivers will flash their lights at me - unless they think I'm
a gangster looking for my next victim!
Twincam16 said:
Perhaps, although I was watching Top Gear USA when Tanner Faust tested the Noble M600 and described it as being made 'in a small town just outside London.'
He's referring to Leicester.
Rolls-Royces definitely break down! In fact (and this is true, read it in an interview with him a few years back and he had photographic evidence) George Barris used to have a pair of Silver Spirits that used to travel in convoy. He loved to travel in them and arrive at functions in them, but he would always take two as they had a reputation for breaking down, just in case he needed to get in the other one.
I've heard the same story but with other famous people substituted. Perhaps that in iteslf is another myth. He's referring to Leicester.
Rolls-Royces definitely break down! In fact (and this is true, read it in an interview with him a few years back and he had photographic evidence) George Barris used to have a pair of Silver Spirits that used to travel in convoy. He loved to travel in them and arrive at functions in them, but he would always take two as they had a reputation for breaking down, just in case he needed to get in the other one.
Did anyone come to a conclusion about flashing their headlights at traffic/temporary lights, a topic that was prominent earlier on in this thread?
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