So I guess the CHP doesn't enforce tinting rules anymore...

[FreeRyde]

BARF: "Them winder tint'n motherF******s!"



It's more about officer safety than anything else.

 

[Kornholio]

BARF: "Them winder tint'n motherF******s!"



It's more about officer safety than anything else.

Missed what I said earlier? By that logic, the states that don't have those laws don't care about officer safety.


...which makes no sense.

 

[FreeRyde]

Missed what I said earlier? By that logic, the states that don't have those laws don't care about officer safety.


...which makes no sense.

California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington legalized Marywanda, does that mean the rest of the country doesn't care about happiness?

 

[Kornholio]

They may have, but it's still not legal from a federal sense.

 

[TheRobSJ]

How dark was the tint? Also, not running a front plate is pretty much a "Hey officer, look at me!" magnet.

I don’t know the percentage, but there was a difference between the rear and front.

And front plates? I haven’t run one in 25 years of driving. Only got the fix it ticket once.

 

[ontherearwheel]

One of the greatest advantages to a motorcycle is being able to get out of unsafe situations easier than a car.

If you feel unsafe being around a car with tint....and your on a motorcycle....why stay put? Get into a situation you are comfortable with.

As a long term rider.....tinted cars don't bother me. Maybe because I have come realize and accept that my safety is in my hands......not others.

Give example........was a flight crew on a P3. Doing pilot qualification flight once going through emergency situations. One of those was a no flap landing cause flaps can become inoperative but ya still got to land. No flap landing are really high speed landings cause of the lack of lift from the wings. We land, flaps up, no problem.

I was flying observer sitting in the back. We slowed down, got on the taxi way and taxied back to take off again. All this time, I'm watching for the flaps to come down. They were still up.

Told to hold short of the main runway.......still no,flaps down. Told to taxi into position and hold. Plane moves onto main runway.......still flaps up. There is no such thing as a no flap take off in a P3.

That's when I informed the flight deck that the flaps were still up. The flaps came down into take off position and off we went.

The pilot getting the check ride was the commander of the squadron. Three highly train people in the cockpit overlooked the flaps on pre take off check list.

That moment forever etched into my mind that my safety is on me and not others.

Funny how life experinces influences a way a person looks at life.

 

[Climber]

I'd like to see them crack down on drivers who don't use their (FUCKING) turn signals first, that shit is super inconsiderate at the least and dangerous at worst. Too many assholes on the street!

Yeah, occasionally I notice very dark tinted windshields and front windows and wonder how the fuck they get away with it.

 

[MapleRoad]

On the rare occasion when I'm caught out in the dark with a dark visor and don't have a clear one to replace it with, I ride with the visor up. I have to go slower, but I still need to see where I'm going.

This whole dark visor side discussion has been kind of lame.

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

 

[LakeMerrit]

My gripe de jour would have to be people merging mid intersection, specifically in the suburbs where I work.

It's like a free for all on streets in Dublin/Pleasanton as far as merging right mid intersection into the additional right lane that is added on the next block. Makes the right-on-red quite dangerous for people coming off cross streets when 80% of the cars coming across will be merging into the lane while crossing the intersection.

 

[T100]

In Az. almost everyone has heavy tint all windows.

 

[Kornholio]

I don’t know the percentage, but there was a difference between the rear and front.

And front plates? I haven’t run one in 25 years of driving. Only got the fix it ticket once.

Back in high school, my bus didn't have front plates. I got stopped three times in one year for it...I finally found a way to mount it. Haven't run without one since and haven't been stopped for anything in my autos outside of speeding and that was just one time back in 2006. To me, there's no reason to give a cop an excuse to pay more attention to you than necessary. The front plate thing is a dead giveaway.

 

[RVFRick]

Except that in CA the #1 is either the Carpool lane or just a regular lane. And if it isn't carpool time, CA doesnt observe the "no passing on the right" so therefore we don't have "passing lanes" unless expressly called out (like on hwy 1), so leaving the lane for people speeding is essentially bad traffic flow control.

Are you saying you can't pass to the right of a carpool vehicle? In CA it is legal to pass regardless of time of day as far as I know as long as you don't leave the roadway (shoulder included) or go in the bike lane.

 

[295566]

Are you saying you can't pass to the right of a carpool vehicle? In CA it is legal to pass regardless of time of day as far as I know as long as you don't leave the roadway (shoulder included) or go in the bike lane.

He's saying that in other states the #1 lane is reserved for passing; they change lanes into the "passing lane," overtake, then merge back over. Compared that to CA, where people camp in the #1 lane like it's Yosemite, and will stay there all day long. In that case, people pass on the right side, 'cause there are no more lanes to the left.

 

[rudolfs001]

Here's my list:

• License plate covers

What do you mean? Are you griping about people who put that reflective plastic over their license plates? Or do you mean that there's some law that we have to have a frame?

 

[ScottRNelson]

What do you mean? Are you griping about people who put that reflective plastic over their license plates? Or do you mean that there's some law that we have to have a frame?

California law does not allow you to put anything at all over the letters of the license plate.

The clear ones aren't a big problem until they start to get cloudy. The dark ones that make the plate unreadable from any real distance should get an instant ticket the first time a LEO sees it.

 

[NorCal_SV650S]

In CA it is illegal to have licence plate covers, even clear ones.

Most have them on to try to fool cameras at night.

Once again, where is the enforcement?

 

[295566]

In CA it is illegal to have licence plate covers, even clear ones.

Most have them on to try to fool cameras at night.

Once again, where is the enforcement?

Depends what's going on. A lot of officers use such easy equipment violations as their "probable cause" to do an investigative stop. Shady-looking figures in a run down car, driving around at 2-3 AM in a high crime area? No front plate, front tints, license plate covers, smoked brake lights, etc are great ways to stop and talk to whoever's in that car and dig for good, proactive arrests. Soccer mom taking the kids to band practice in the Prius without a front plate? Bigger fish to fry. The time it takes to pull a vehicle over, run the license/check for warrants, write the tag, etc can easily be 10-15 minutes that officer is out of service. If they don't think it will be worth it, they won't bother and will continue looking for bigger, better things to enforce.

At least, that's my experience.

 

[DReg350]

I suppose if I gave it a little more thought I could care less than I currently do, which isn't very damn at much.

California, at least the Bay Area has so many problems... where do you even start? I put my name on the U-Haul waiting list so that when I'm ready to bail in a few years I'll be able to get a friggin' truck.

Driving has become a video game for so many drivers that tinted windows is just low level noise to me. I'm more concerned about the guys that pass me at warp speed while cutting people off Nascar style while I'm doing 75+ in #3. Crazy shit. arty

 

[planegray]

I suppose if I gave it a little more thought I could care less than I currently do, which isn't very damn at much.

California, at least the Bay Area has so many problems... where do you even start? I put my name on the U-Haul waiting list so that when I'm ready to bail in a few years I'll be able to get a friggin' truck.

Driving has become a video game for so many drivers that tinted windows is just low level noise to me. I'm more concerned about the guys that pass me at warp speed while cutting people off Nascar style while I'm doing 75+ in #3. Crazy shit. arty

dude, you need to learn to appreciate my slingshot passes !

 

[KooLaid]

On the rare occasion when I'm caught out in the dark with a dark visor and don't have a clear one to replace it with, I ride with the visor up. I have to go slower, but I still need to see where I'm going.

This whole dark visor side discussion has been kind of lame.

That's what I do. But my buddies I've ridden with while I was in Colorado have gotten tickets for riding with their visor up enough to look through.