Looks like it might be India? It used to be that everyone had them folded in because they would get snapped off in traffic. Also the noise from horns is loud AF. Still not great, but context matters.
Meanwhile OP seems to be driving with their seatbelt off because it’s out of focus frame left
I think(well sure) that is passenger side, because driver is on the right. And so this picture would have to be taken from outside the driver side to catch the seatbelt.
I don’t get why everyone is complaining about the folded mirrors when she has pixels all over her eyes.
I don’t care about the earphones. May as well say the deaf can’t drive.
Yea, earphones aren’t going to make a difference, or maybe you shouldn’t drive with a radio on? Or that the sound deadening in the car doesn’t already block most of the sound outside the car.
The earphones aren’t a problem per se, if you listen with approrpriate sound where you can still hear an ambulance coming or a car horn. I don’t think this person is doing that, but lets guve them the benefit of the doubt. But the mirrors folded is next level stupudity. There is no doubt that this person should be driving at all.
Aside from like an F1 race, I don’t know of a single place where it’s legal to wear headphones while operating a motor vehicle.
It’s illegal. And we need more people getting caught and held accountable.
The folded mirrors is probably to avoid clipping stuff in tight city streets. They’re probably driving slower than walking.
This is a poor person driving. I don’t see the big deal.
I see worse luxury car drivers every day.
I don’t quite see how a persons bank account is relevant?
Wealth and entitlement isn’t relevant you say?
Yes in a community about the problems cars pose, in a post about a bad driver.
I don’t quite see how a persons bank account is relevant
In a community about the problems that cars pose, you don’t think class has any factor in this or are you just performatively against cars?
In a community about the problems that cars pose, we don’t give people a pass for being careless simply based on how shitty their car may be.
(Also this photo was taken in India. That woman is richer than 80% of the population based solely on the fact that she owns a car)
That is important context.
More like 92%.
So those mirrors would have been literally smacking into throngs of pedestrians on all sides if they weren’t folded.
WEET CORN
There’s a number of things that I strongly believe should result in an automatic short term suspension, because the driver clearly has no fucking clue what they’re doing. Driving without lights lights off at night (I don’t give a shit about your auto lights, turn them on manually because it’s not working) and driving with folded mirrors are two of the items. Failing to clear snow off glass is another.
Driving with two earphones in is a problem. They simply do a better job of blocking ambient sound than the car speakers. People get mad ad pedestrians or cyclists who don’t hav situational awareness because of their headphones; drivers have a greater responsibility because of the size of their vehicle.
Driving without lights lights off at night
I had a cop cite me for turning my bright-ass bicycle light off at night while riding on a quiet, lit sidewalk at 2am.
That is entirely different than grandma getting in a black car and driving on a pitch black night, or a white car leaving their lights off during heavy rain and doing 20 below in the left hand lane.
driving with folded mirrors
I have had drivers who forgot to leave room at a stoplight fold their mirror to let me and the dozen other motorcycles by at a light.
Anything that is likely to have nuance can’t have zero-tolerance policies or you’re subjecting a bunch of people to disproportionate to unjust punishment.
If you were close enough to a car on a motorcycle that they had to fold their mirror in then you were too close and there was no room.
Usually there is enough room. The cagers are just scared I’ll clip the mirror.
Mind you I don’t live in the US and the lanes are much narrower on average, also people don’t have guns.
At long light cycles I will duck and weave between lanes and around mirrors as much as necessary to reach the front. As is legal in my state.
probably still safer than the average super insulated modern vehicle with blinding headlights, massive blind spots, and a cockpit lit up like an airport so the driver’s night vision is ruined
headphones are perfectly normal
No the fuck it isn’t
