I feel like this comment is a little obtuse. They are pretty clearly referring to the average car driving down the road. People don’t tend to drive with their hazards on unless there is…a hazard.
I feel like this comment is a little obtuse. They are pretty clearly referring to the average car driving down the road. People don’t tend to drive with their hazards on unless there is…a hazard.
sxan@midwest.social 5 days ago
People do stop in the street and put in their hazards for various reasons, though. Legally or illegally, people stop in the street in front of businesses where there’s no parking and run in to get something; cars fail, or get flats. Especially with fender benders; even if there’s a shoulder, people justifiably put on their hazards. It may be less frequent than an emergency vehicle being in any given street at any given time, but in (US) metropolitan area it’s not uncommon.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I’m not saying it never happens, I’m saying you misinterpreted what the original commenter was clearly referencing—how the average car appears on The Strip.
sxan@midwest.social 5 days ago
I don’t think so. In one comment someone asked whether they should include signage, b/c Las Vegas would definitely win, and OP answered that it would be interesting to see categories.
OPs original thought was that, at any given point in time, in the world there exists a street with the most flashing lights. All the examples they gave were cars, and that must include hazards. There isn’t a street in the US that always has an ambulance in it. There may be one where it’s more frequent, as in front of a hospital, but it’s not always. And hazards are maybe less frequent than active ambulance lights, but they’re not rare.
Hazards aren’t a defect; they’re not a short circuit in someone’s headlights. They’re not someone pumping their brakes - just like a police light, you turn them on and the lights blink until you turn them off.
How could you include sporadic, flashing ambulance lights but not hazards? I don’t understand the thought process.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Because ambulance lights are most commonly on (at least for half of their trip), while hazards are usually only used a handful of times in the lifetime of a normal car. Under typical operating parameters, it is exponentially more common to see emergency lights on ambulances and police vehicles than it is to see hazards turned on with cars.