Winter Weather + Rain = Rally Canberra

Wet weather means we can go through our ‘sideways’, various corners in the ‘burbs, route.

You’d think they’d jump out and start wiping sponges over their cars, the way they gnash and wail over water restrictions preventing them from washing cars with hoses.

I’ve always found Canberrans respond to wet weather like cavemen. “water falling from sky run run!”

My theory on Canberra drivers in the wet is that they acknowledge the fact that driving in the wet is dangerous so they make their way to their destination quicker – therefore minimising their time on unsafe roads LOL

Canberra drivers are on average very unskilled, and very aggressive. In the wet, they remind me of how ducks get when it rains…. very animated and excited.

Most modern cars are like cocoons, very quiet and smooth and climate-managed which helps divorce the drivers from reality, and I think their natural bad tendencies are highlighted in the wet. I see them flying past, plumes of water rising from their tyres, they’ve got to be near aquaplaning and I just try and stay the hell away from the lot of them. I don’t want to be in their way when they discover that they really can’t drive for nuts.

learnt what ESP does this afternoon. Interesting!

Bungle said :

And how about all those people driving around without their fog lights on?!?!

fog lights are for driving in fog dipsht, using them in the rain will just reflect the light and dazzle oncomming drivers, the same as high beam lights.

normal headlights will suffice, but knowing canberrans there will be a couple of dozen morons in their silver/white/grey/light blue cars etc who think everyone can see them in the pouring rain, particularly the cars infront of them.

I live on a fairly steep but wide street and the slightest bit of moisture has every dumbass P plater and their battle-scarred turbo spinning tyres up the hill.

Just one………ooooh just once would I love to see a cop coming over the hill at that exact moment or better yet watch them spin out and clip the gutter!!!

Have you seen that Audi wagon that has been parked in the centre traffic island just after the roundabout? Damaged at the front. It’s been there for over a week.

Its accepted as fact that Canberrans forget how to drive whenever it rains.

Most people on the road are still nuckfuts in the wet, and even with the benefit of defensive driver training, I seem to be a magnet for being hit by other drivers on wet roads.
They either run red by forgetting to account for increased stopping distance, puddles, and their own lack of experience, have bald tyres and go sliding for tremendous distances, or just forget that their windshield may be blurry as there is rain on it, and rear-end me while I’m stationary at the lights.

Some people blame smooth roads covered in black dribbly crap, other people blame the fact that Canberrans drive cars into the ground and don’t bother to get seals and leaks checked and so contribute to the slippery & slick roads, I just think most people can’t be bothered where they’re going or if they get there in one piece.

My favourite example of this was during the drizzle last week when a bloke came fanging around the roundabout near Duntroon, lost control and slammed into the kerb, thereby busting the front wheel off his car. Oh how I laughed, and I laughed.

And how about all those people driving around without their fog lights on?!?!

Yes, I’ve noticed the same thing too. People have no idea of the Laws of Physics and how they apply to wet roads and rubber tyres. A lot of people aren’t used to driving in wet conditions due to the drought. Others play too many video games and then go out onto the road and get their ambitions confused with their abilities and seem to be trying to get themselves a Darwin Award. It wouldn’t be as bad if these morons just hurt themselves with their stunts, but often they take out innocent bystanders and/or their property as well.