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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by importantbrian on Saturday February 03, 2024 @10:28PM (#39247264)
That's wild. I wonder if you just have a couple of jerks in your area. I grew up in a rural area and my parents still live out there, and I cannot ever remember someone driving on the road with their light bars on. I used to have one on my jeep. Anyone who has them knows they're being a jerk if they're driving with it on the road.
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by Scubabear68 on Saturday February 03, 2024 @10:31PM (#39247284)
Judging by this behavior, some others I won’t go into, and local Facebook wars, we have a significant concentration of jerks without a doubt.
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by davkan on Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:53AM (#39247965)
In the Rockies you see loads of vehicles with light bars. Never see them lit up on the road. Maybe it comes down to local policing? Cops around here aren’t likely to appreciate non-locals driving with lights on. Could just be culture though.
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by JohnFen on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:25AM (#39262932)
> Cops around here aren’t likely to appreciate non-locals driving with lights on.

I hope they equally don't appreciate it when locals do the same.

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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by davkan on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:42AM (#39263197)
I don’t think the locals are likely to do it. Good way to get everyone in town to know you for being a tool.
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by JohnFen on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:51AM (#39263328)
That's a better set of locals than the ones around here, then!
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by davkan on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:54AM (#39263378)
Probably in that way alone!
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by bogota on Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:56AM (#39247974)
I would like to think so but i saw the same crap driving through the middle of a Denver on I70 recently. I almost had to pull over it was so bright I couldn’t see but no one did anything as I have become accustomed to.
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Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap by rco8786 on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:14AM (#39249644)
It's super common in the south nowadays. I grew up similarly, and had light bars on my trucks/all my friends did/etc. But we weren't driving around town with them on.
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