How Do You Guys Drive in The CBD and Highway on a Rainy Night

BattleSausage on 26/02/2022 - 06:50
Last edited 26/02/2022 - 07:50 by 1 other user

Yesterday I was coming home from the city (I live in the inner west sydney so I took the City-West link). Although the rain wasn't particularly heavy, the roads were wet already. It was 10pm and I struggled so much to see the lane markings in parts of the CBD and City-West link. I followed a taxi in the CBD in hopes that it'll be in lane but turns out (profanity) was driving on the wrong side of the road to make a right turn into a building.

How do you guys drive safely on a dark rainy day in these places? I really wish there are cat lights on the road

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Comments

  • kerfuffle on 26/02/2022 - 06:58
    +12

    You don't go as fast as you normally would and pay extra careful attention.

  • bloom on 26/02/2022 - 07:02
    +8

    You pretend your vin diesel doing the Tokyo drift

  • sjj89 on 26/02/2022 - 07:05
    +4

    There definitely needs to be something added to the paint used for lane markings so it stands out at all when roads are wet at night, as currently they are essentially invisible in those conditions.

    • Euphemistic on 26/02/2022 - 08:32
      +1

      There already is in most cases. They have glass beads that help reflect the light. There are also what are called ‘thermoplastic markings’ that have reflective bits embedded in them.

      • sjj89 on 26/02/2022 - 12:08
        +1

        That just helps at night, but once there’s water over the road it does not work

        • Scrooge McDuck on 26/02/2022 - 13:01
          +1

          Also, one can still see the residual embossment of the last few sets of lane markings so it can be quite confusing.

        • Euphemistic on 26/02/2022 - 14:58
          +1

          Water will negate any reflective aspects added to paint, the light reflects off the water which is covering the reflective stuff .

          Why do you think they use cat eyes?

  • Sammy2000 on 26/02/2022 - 07:21
    +1

    Is it worse now with LED lights? Higher than Sedans in SUVs? With their lights angled up?
    Some lines I struggle to see in the heavy downpours, down low in my regular car with LEDs.

    • TEER3X on 26/02/2022 - 10:24
      +5

      Sounds like lyrics from rap song.

    • [Deactivated] on 26/02/2022 - 12:25

      Nope. My hatchback has this problem and it’s 20 years old

  • BobD on 26/02/2022 - 07:30
    +2

    White lane markings are unhelpful. A long time back the lines (in NSW) used to be yellow and were much better for visibility.

    • Islund on 26/02/2022 - 10:20

      Guess white paint is cheaper than yellow.

      • plmko on 26/02/2022 - 11:25

        There's enough pain seeing yellow NSW plates, they don't need to suffer with yellow road markings.

  • GoldenDragon888 on 26/02/2022 - 08:16
    +8

    I usually see the light reflecting from the hot tar repairs better than I do the white lines. :-(

    • WreckTangle on 26/02/2022 - 08:51

      The M2 is like this

      • GoldenDragon888 on 26/02/2022 - 08:55

        Yep I recall also the even worse hot tar over old lines to make new ones in a different spot. FFS.

        • Euphemistic on 26/02/2022 - 09:24

          Grinding the lines off also has the same effect. Works ok in fine weather. Pretty much anything they do other than resheeting the whole area will make lines difficult to see in the dark and wet.

  • mskeggs on 26/02/2022 - 08:19

    If conditions are that bad, I pull over.

  • rektrading on 26/02/2022 - 08:30
    +3

    I followed a taxi in the CBD in hopes that it'll be in lane but turns out (profanity) was driving on the wrong side of the road

    This sounds like the noobs that blindly follow TikTok finfluencers to the slaughterhouse to get rekt.

    Next time, slow down, pull back from the people in front and assess the situation with your own 👀.

  • Euphemistic on 26/02/2022 - 08:34
    +3

    Rule 1: don’t drive any faster than you can see where you are going.
    Rule 2: don’t trust that the driver in front of you is following rule one.

    Get your eyes tested. Your night vision is first to go and rainy nights will make it hardest to see.

  • ihbh on 26/02/2022 - 08:44
    +1

    Simple. Don't do booty calls on rainy nights. :)

  • Hugh G Rection on 26/02/2022 - 09:29

    i usually do it with my eyes open sober, but to each there own.

  • pegaxs on 26/02/2022 - 09:57

    This reminds me of the time I was going to Sydney on the freeway and the rain was so heavy you couldn’t see 2 car lengths in front. Traffic was down to a crawl. People were pulling over because you literally couldn’t see and the water across the road was a few inches deep. And yet, there were still the idiots coming past doing the speed limit.

    Doesn’t matter what other are doing around you, you just drive at what you think is safe for you.

    Oh, and the last thing you should do is emulate anything a taxi driver is doing. There is a good chance they got their license in some dirty, backwater shithole that has no road rules or appreciation for road safety and got it converted to an Australian license. A cab ride in the day time on dry roads is a scary enough experience on its own.

    • Islund on 26/02/2022 - 10:23
      -2

      I second the bit about the cabbies. I am told there is no such thing as a 🛑 sign in China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Africa.

      • Scrooge McDuck on 26/02/2022 - 13:05
        -3

        I don't think a camel licence should be valid for driving a motor vehicle.

  • bengal tiger on 26/02/2022 - 10:34

    Something I learnt from driving in countries with monsoon weather is to put on your sunglasses during heavy daytime wet weather - your visibility improves dramatically as it'll cut through the falling rain and you can see the road more clearly. Obviously it doesn't work so well wearing sunglasses at night, but hey YMMV.

    Link here to some anecdotal evidence (it's on the Internet so it must be true).

    • the Unforgiven on 26/02/2022 - 23:00

      Wear sunnies with yellow tint at night

  • outlander on 26/02/2022 - 10:38

    I usually just pretend I can see them, and hope that everyone else has a solid idea of where there lanes are

  • Ghost47 on 26/02/2022 - 10:49
    +1

    Normally because driving in the rain isn’t that hard unless it’s extremely heavy.

  • Ocker on 26/02/2022 - 11:31
    +1

    With the need for such a question you will never get off L plates

  • Manny Calavera on 26/02/2022 - 12:22

    With the lights and wipers on.

  • Tickle on 26/02/2022 - 14:48
    +1

    Serious comment, get your eyes tested, I had the same problem without even realizing I was in need of glasses 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • AlienC on 28/02/2022 - 00:50
    -1

    You take the train, ram or bus.

    • Euphemistic on 28/02/2022 - 08:59

      This country is riding on the sheep’s back.

      • AlienC on 28/02/2022 - 12:34
        -1

        Indeed Good sir indeed

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