Oblivious or just plain stupid?

StumpyPete said :

Among many other things someone needs to teach the dude about hazard lights.

Someone needs to teach the greater driving population of Canberra about hazard lights.

After enduring about two minutes (well it felt like it) of traffic whizzing past me in the right hand lane I managed to overtake this guy about 250m after the William Hovell/Bindubi Street intersection. At the time I overtook him the rims were starting to spark.

Among many other things someone needs to teach the dude about hazard lights.

White Hatchback, Late 90’s Honda Civic I think.

Elizabethany said :

I’ll take “didn’t have a spare” for $400, Alex.

or maybe the spare that their ex was meant to have repaired was still in fact flat…. no that was me. Teach me to check next time

Actually, it’s not that easy to tell if you have a flat tyre whilst driving. After all, you are in the drivers’ seat and can’t see your wheels. And I found it amusing to hear on the motoring segment on 2CC a few weeks ago about a new, ultra expensive car which had problems with the tyres. They develop a whiz-bang new model like that and it needs wheels and tyres just like a cheapie Chery or Alto. Funny about that, eh?

I’ll take “didn’t have a spare” for $400, Alex.

Holden Caulfield said :

devils_advocate said :

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m going for oblivious.

I’ve had a tire go out on me at high speed, if you have the stereo up you won’t hear anything, it feels like you’ve just hit a pothole, it’s not til you smell the burning rubber and get that distinctive “flap flap flap” sound that you realise a tire’s gone.

if you are driving in a straight line you might not instantly realise the steering’s gone heavy. Also these low-profile tires have pretty heavy-duty sidewalls. Bit of an idiot for not pulling over sooner though, if he was going slow he must have realised at this point.

I have low profile tyres (225/40/18) and when I got a blowout a while back I could feel straight away what happened. To be fair it was to one of my front tyres, so the altered steering feedback helped.

That said, you’ve given a pretty good explanation of what oblivious means. 😉

I Had a blowout last year, and in all honesty, I’m not even sure where, I’m assuming somwhere along Yass RD on QBN, but I had no Idea till I started out to braidwood, the car was struggling up the hill, more than I anticipated it would (under load – moving house) and I turned the music down to see if anything sounded off, it did, Near side rear, very, very flat!

devils_advocate said :

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m going for oblivious.

I’ve had a tire go out on me at high speed, if you have the stereo up you won’t hear anything, it feels like you’ve just hit a pothole, it’s not til you smell the burning rubber and get that distinctive “flap flap flap” sound that you realise a tire’s gone.

if you are driving in a straight line you might not instantly realise the steering’s gone heavy. Also these low-profile tires have pretty heavy-duty sidewalls. Bit of an idiot for not pulling over sooner though, if he was going slow he must have realised at this point.

I have low profile tyres (225/40/18) and when I got a blowout a while back I could feel straight away what happened. To be fair it was to one of my front tyres, so the altered steering feedback helped.

That said, you’ve given a pretty good explanation of what oblivious means. 😉

If you don’t know to pull over when you have a flat tyre, you shouldn’t be driving. It’s really that simple.

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m going for oblivious.

I’ve had a tire go out on me at high speed, if you have the stereo up you won’t hear anything, it feels like you’ve just hit a pothole, it’s not til you smell the burning rubber and get that distinctive “flap flap flap” sound that you realise a tire’s gone.

if you are driving in a straight line you might not instantly realise the steering’s gone heavy. Also these low-profile tires have pretty heavy-duty sidewalls. Bit of an idiot for not pulling over sooner though, if he was going slow he must have realised at this point.

I’m going for oblivious.