I've been noticing lately a lot of cars on the road with defects ranging from tyres with nearly no tread left or half deflated, brake lights not working, one front light not working (I'm guessing this makes them non roadworthy).
It's come to a point where I feel obligated to stop next to them at a traffic light and express my concern by telling them what's faulty.
I always check my lights, tyres, etc before I start my trips everyday. Why are people so careless?
Ummmm ok boomer
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Yeh i hate those diesel trucks and cars who are so careless to change diesel filters and blow out black smoke .
Im pretty certain you can get fined for that too
To those who say "but I need to drive", well I stopped driving to work 6 years ago, despite living 30km from my work. I get to work with a combination of bike and public transport and walking. It's changed my life dramatically for the better, and I only lose about 20 minutes a day while simultaneously getting about 50 minutes of exercise.
so how does one do this.
live 20km from train station.
train station 20km from work. train is slow as all f.
you want me to cycle 20km up a highway?
live 20km from train station.
Sounds like terrible planning that allows homes to be so far away from any train station.
@smartazz104: its rural acreage, hence why need a car. but qlds rail network is pisspoor
i didnt want to live in 400m2 block where i can hear my neighbour taking a dump
@Donaldhump: Living there was your choice. If not wasting time sitting in a car was important to you, I'm sure you could have gotten a decent sized block closer to the train station.
@ForkSnorter: um yeh and driving to work is my choice, i work from home most days and only working till march 2023 so happy days
just ignorant of you to say people should not drive to work, when there is no other option.
not everyone wants to live on a 400m2 block next to train line amongst the ghetto and crime
@Donaldhump: I live on a 500m2 block and rarely hear my neighbours. I guess 100m2 makes a difference đ¤
Do you also use go get?
you drive once a month thats cool, guess you either
1.) have no job
2.) wfh
3.) live on public transport.
maybe if this country had public transport system that worked id use to. in the mean time i battle daily commuted of 1.5 hours to go 40 kms to do a job i can perfectly do at home.
Completely agree, I mostly cycle now too.. but it doesn't help that full price public transport demands more than $100 a month.
If you've already got a registered car, it just doesn't make financial sense to use public transport.
When my car servicing schedule frequency was 6mths, I left it up to them to make any changes/inform me of blown bulbs, tread etc outside of my checks at the servo when filling up air/pressure for the tires.
On a yearly frequency, the driver has to be more aware and actively check. For those who don't even get their cars serviced, I doubt they would even notice unless they actively can tell the difference. (e.g brake lights not noticeable unless you're backed up against something, reverse lights if no one points it out, or headlights etc)
I do find that there are way more cars with one headlight out more often (perhaps post lockdowns?)
Why Do People Still Drive Cars with Defects?
then
Why are people so careless?
So you've already made your mind up. Why bother posting?
A lot of people simply don't realise the brake light is out or whatever.
It will get picked up an next service or when someone else points it out to them.
I hate ******* in custom cars that cannot fix their stupid exhaust so the car makes a lot of noise.
I believe you are mistaken. Theyâve already âfixedâ their car with a custom exhaust to make it noisier. Itâs intentional.
Also if you're polite with the cops you are almost never going to get a fine for a non-obvious thing like tail light or indicator not working.
They know these things blow all the time and people don't always notice straight away, will just let you know to go get it changed and off you go.
Some like brake lights etc. are fairly hard to miss but to me tyres are inexcusable especially as the state of them can be the difference between life and death.
I live in an apartment block and the without even focussing on it i noticed at one stage that the neighbouring car had bald tyres.
Tyres should be getting pumped up every couple of months so it's the perfect opportunity to have an eyeball inspection of the thread.
I am surprised no one here said the magic words, "Cost of Living".
I am also surprised it took this long to be mentioned.
I bet most of these drivers won't have insurance either. It's basically the rising cost of living. Food, fuel, bills, interest rates, council rates, insurance, kid's school fees…
I see plenty of cars driving at night without their lights on. If people can't even work out that their lights aren't on it's no surprise they don't know that their tyres are bald.
Pretty impressive in the day of auto-headlights. Seen many just rely on their illuminated instrument cluster and DRL's.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people are unaware that they have auto headlights. Ive certainly had quite a few uber drivers who didnt…
Globes and what not I guess they don't know. If its a modern car, the car may report a failure. If its a older car they will wait till rego or when the police tell them (and give them a fine for their troubles)
Tyres, I think people are trying to get as much mileage as they can. Tyres are a big expense, especially if you're living paycheque to paycheque. Cost of living these days makes its harder to save money, make things last longer. It's what you got to do to balance the books.
Cost of living these days makes its harder to save money, make things last longer. It's what you got to do to balance the books.
But it comes at a great cost, yours and others safety
Things like headlights and tail lights they may not know about unless they're told by someone, by that the police or another road user.
Things like tyres there isn't really any excuse but times are tough at the moment and people don't have as much money to spend on things like tyres and servicing costs.
My car beep boops at me if anything is wrong. Gone are the days of walking around and using my eyes
Yeah man, use your eyeballs for something useful, like doom scrolling on your phone for a few hours.
You sound upset
Nar eyes are precious. But we do waste them on so much junk.
'Why are people so careless?'
the world would be a better place if everyone was more like me !
oh, wait …
what about eye check every year as well….no excuse for hogging 2 lanes while driving
Unsure if you're a lame troll or a lame human being in general
Why choose?
Brake lights and headlights blow all the time. Say 1/1000 car drivers suffers one of those failures each day, an average driver probably drives with and by several thousand cars a day. So you're likely to see one or two a day that have it.
Lack of tread I have noticed a bit lately but, again, it's probably confirmation bias. I notice the couple of cars with balding tyres I see a day, but don't take any notice of the hundreds I see with perfectly fine tread.
Because some families simply cannot afford to fix them but still need to drive to get to work in order to feed their family.
Are they really old sh*t bombs or modernish new cars?
I would agree with one of the comments that peoples financial priorities are potentially along spending on other things thatâs of lesser need.
But it could also be related to financial constraints. I guess itâs difficult to decide if you want to drop a few hundred or few k on fixing things that you deem as passable versus being able to continue to pay for the groceries whilst the cost of living is increasing as well.
I like the post until OP says they check their car every single time they get in đđ. Sure buddy. Sure. I highly doubt that.
I always check my lights, tyres, etc before I start my trips everyday. Why are people so careless?
For whatever reason you have grown up to believe this is expected/normal/not incredibly weird and, likely because of how time consuming this has been for you, you have this expectation that everyone should live similarly.
I have my lady friend who came to our house and I saw her tire was almost deflated and I asked her when did you get her car serviced, it was a Rav4 3 years old. She said she has not got service for the last 2 years as she is not driving a lot due to covid and she has lost her job so she does not have money to get her regular service. But I noticed she has 13pro in her hand.
So people continue to ignore things till it break.
Maybe her iPhone broke and it was an excuse to buy the new model.
She's gonna do the same thing with her car I assume.
Imagine being so autistic you check your tyres and lights everyday lmao
In this economy? There are plenty of people struggling to pay for electricity and food, why would fixing a car be their first priority?
Because it's rarely enforced on the average road user with a sh!tbox car.
Lots of focus on people with a lowered car, car with bigger wheels and fresh new rubber, bigger brakes, cars that "sound fast" (but aren't always) and attract police attention (sometimes its also the sh!t behavior that causes them this attention).
But it's obvious for the states that don't do roadworthy checks on cars (QLD, VIC I'm looking at you specifically) as people drive the car they bought second hand 20 years ago in to the ground until it fails or they hit someone and total it first. These same people are often the ones with no license or rego not paid + no insurance.
They have zero interest in safety (theirs or anyone else), they don't care about maintaining the vehicle they have as its no needed until its dead, it's about getting from point A to B and having a pack of smokes in their pocket at all times and a dozen cans in the fridge to drink over the weekend. It's not a priority to them. They're sh!t people in all aspects of life usually.
Many many years ago I recall on the Bruce Hwy in QLD they'd divert almost all the traffic off the highway through that weigh station in Burpengary and cops (or inspectors) would go through and point to cars to pull over in to a field where they'd go over cars and defect them in bulk for an hour or two.
That helped a little but no ongoing checks to make sure vehicles are being kept roadworthy so it's reduced in impact.
But given how easily we hand out licenses to drive on our roads its little surprise people's unwillingness to make sure their car has a basic level of things working on them.
VIC police can make a killing pulling cars over with one/no lights and general shitboxes but suspect they're too lazy to actually police. VIC cars a pretty disgraceful in many areas. Roadworthy checks must be mandatory once a year but incumbent govts probably too scared to lose votes.
No Police on the roads to Police itâŚ.
They rely on cameras to bring in the revenue.đ¤Ź
I disagree. Ive seen 5 police cars on the road today so far
Your lucky i havnt seen one for ages and i certainly havenât seen anyone being pulled overâŚ.
What i do see regulary is pathetic driving and plenty of taillights, stop lights, headlight not working. This is a regular sightâŚ
My favourite to see is a car with all the rear bushings stuffed up and it drives like a crab with the rear end moving back and forth out of line with the front .
OP is posting while being defective
Because the cops would rather send a large fine in the mail to someone slightly transgressing an artificially low speed limit, than to proactively uphold road safety
The safety inspection system is a joke, it seems to target modified cars but doesn't address roadworthiness
M.O.N.E.Y.
A mate often askes why the person in front of us has a damaged tail light cluster. I tell him, again, that sure, it's cheap to buy if you have the time and money to go to a wreckers and buy a replacement. He doesn't seem to know that poor people exist.
I don't own a car because I'm poor and buses exist.
I also agree that poor people are a waste of space and they shouldnât drive in front of people who are not poor. And there should be a separate lane for poor people.
There should also be a seperate lane for idiots
Most people are probably just too tyred or feeling a bit flat, needing a brake or someone to lighten up their day.
Ironically with the idea of rich people getting richer…
Nicer cars tend to have LED tail/brake lights (and low beams) that should last the entire life of the car, whereas those who buy lower end/cheaper cars use filament bulbs which need to be changed many times of the life of the car.
LED technology really should be a standard at this point, although a good sign is that most newer cars I see do use LED technology, even on mainstream base models.
I'm more concerned by the number of people who drive when they don't need to. Why are they so careless?
I'm fairly certain about 50-90% of the cars on the road really don't need to be there. For most people, there is always some kind of alternative option. Yet Australians just don't take it, because they're lazy and don't think outside the box, and prefer to risk their lives on the freeway for 10-20 hours a week breathing in carbon monoxide.
I drive my car once a month when it is absolutely necessary, and even then only begrudgingly.
Every time I do drive my car it's an absolute nightmare. There are traffic jams everywhere, the air is disgusting, it's extremely stressful. The next day I usually feel sick and tired all day, recovering from the carbon monoxide and the stress.
Australians' obsession with driving everywhere is the death of this country. About half to three quarters of the residential properties in Australia have to put up with never-ending road noise from people who really don't need to be driving.