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Parking / Highway Code
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Strider590 wrote: »I know of someone having their car "strip searched" because he'd parked facing oncoming traffic with his headlights on and was unfortunate enough to have a grumpy Police officer driving the opposite way.
Personally, I think people doing this should be shot.... Cars in the UK have a headlight pattern which projects forward and left (to cover the side of the road), so when you park on the wrong side, your headlights are much more blinding to oncoming vehicles! Especially on a badly/unlit road!
that'll be stopped rather than parked. When you park the car you'll turn your headlights off, turn the engine off and get out of the car.0 -
Surely every country's headlight pattern is the same; forward and directed to the nearside.
Yes...... So it's dependant on which side of the road we drive.scheming_gypsy wrote: »that'll be stopped rather than parked. When you park the car you'll turn your headlights off, turn the engine off and get out of the car.
In an ideal world the definition would be that simple, however the actually definition seems to be stopping the vehicle and abandoning one or more of the controls (pedals, wheel, etc).
I'm only going by the number of people who get parking fines (see Pepipoo) for stopping temporarily in restricted parking area's.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »Yes...... So it's dependant on which side of the road we drive.
:huh: :huh:The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
It is a few years since I drove in France, but when I did it was an offence to park on the "wrong" side of the road at anytime. (even daylight hours)I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure.0
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If you are parked on the wrong side of the road your car's headlights will shine across the road and into the eyes of oncoming drivers.It is a few years since I drove in France, but when I did it was an offence to park on the "wrong" side of the road at anytime. (even daylight hours)
I've heard of that too. I sometimes wish it was law here. Several times I had some idiot swerve across on to the wrong side of road in front of me so that that they can park closer to a post box or newsagent etc.0 -
:huh: :huh:
Nearside in the UK is not the same as nearside in France.Gloomendoom wrote: »Several times I had some idiot swerve across on to the wrong side of road in front of me so that that they can park closer to a post box or newsagent etc.
It's also when they pull into a layby on the opposite side of the road..... Do they not understand that these things are ONE WAY?? You pull over to make a phone call or stop for a short break only to find some idiot facing the wrong way, thus making your exit far more hazardous, because you can't get up any speed before pulling out again......“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Agree. It is always such a pain when they pull out of the space as well, as of necessity they clog up both directions of traffic. :mad:Gloomendoom wrote: »If you are parked on the wrong side of the road your car's headlights will shine across the road and into the eyes of oncoming drivers.
I've heard of that too. I sometimes wish it was law here. Several times I had some idiot swerve across on to the wrong side of road in front of me so that that they can park closer to a post box or newsagent etc.Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits0 -
Strider590 wrote: »Nearside in the UK is not the same as nearside in France.
That is true, but I don't see your point. Why make a point that the UK is somehow different?The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
That is true, but I don't see your point. Why make a point that the UK is somehow different?
I was making a point that parking on the opposite side causes more glare to an oncoming vehicle, than parking on your own side..“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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That is true, but I don't see your point. Why make a point that the UK is somehow different?
Forgive the large image, ripped off wikipedia (I tried to find a smaller one)
In theory lights should be similar to this (this in an example of a continental or American pattern so it's reversed in the uk); Brighter, more focussed forward on the left, softer with a wider & much softer spread to the right.
If you imagine this car parked, but facing the way of on-coming traffic, you can see that the bright, forward facing bit goes straight in their eyes.
Strider mentioned France (for example) because their pattern is the opposite to ours, as-is the Americans, and everyone else who drives on the insane-side of the road
*EDIT* Even motorbikes use this sometimes although you wouldn't get far with a large, singled-bulbed bike.
I won't clog this thread, but on an Aprilia forum I sometimes frequent, there's photos from an American guy who did an HID-swap on his bike that uses a single light-housing.
Boy-racers with blinding lights being a pet-hate, he skilfully cut the reflectors & mounted the 2x HIDs in such a way that this beam "cut-off" lights the road ahead of him like a runway, but was always kept below the eye-line of drivers on his left.0
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