PSA: Don't drive with your windshield fogged up.
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PSA: Don't drive with your windshield fogged up.
Took my 95 SC2 out for its first drive in recent memory since I began the rejuvenation process.
Near sundown.
Door weather stripping is rather compressed and I'm yet to track down the source of the air leak, but basically any morning near or below freezing, the windshield has moisture or actual ice on the inside of the windshield.
Being fully aware of this, I was in a hurry yesterday. I took the time to scrape all the ice off the outside of the windshield and it was only fogged up on the inside. When I put the blower on it Max waited about 30 seconds, watched it begin to clear, and backed out of my driveway.
Driving down the road that leads to my house the thousandth time, I approached the corner with a stop sign. The sun was such that it blasted me directly in the face several hundred yards out. This of course made it pretty much impossible for me to see clearly through the windshield.
With the inner fog removed about 50% of the way up, I was counting on going another few hundred feet knowing the sun would be blocked by a tree.
Instead, I found myself plowing the ABS brakes and stopping about an inch and a half from a parked materials trailer that had been unhooked and left in the road, cones and all.
It didn't even register what it was in real time. My mind processed it as something that should not be there. 100% instinct. Had I not been driving the 25 mile an hour speed limit I would not have been able to stop. And as a 95 S car with only a driver steering wheel airbag, I would have come to a dead stop and gotten hurt. Yes, I wear seat belts.
Been driving for 35 years. Like everyone else I have done stupid shayt and gotten away with it. Completely not my MO.
I know the car, I know the roads.
But if you can't see what's in front of you for a few seconds, even though it's supposed to be clear like it's been the previous thousand times, that doesn't mean that it is.
So don't make the simple assumption that you are always in full control behind the wheel and the master of your surroundings.
You never are.
Take the extra 2 minutes. Nothing is so important that it is worth risking not getting there.
Near sundown.
Door weather stripping is rather compressed and I'm yet to track down the source of the air leak, but basically any morning near or below freezing, the windshield has moisture or actual ice on the inside of the windshield.
Being fully aware of this, I was in a hurry yesterday. I took the time to scrape all the ice off the outside of the windshield and it was only fogged up on the inside. When I put the blower on it Max waited about 30 seconds, watched it begin to clear, and backed out of my driveway.
Driving down the road that leads to my house the thousandth time, I approached the corner with a stop sign. The sun was such that it blasted me directly in the face several hundred yards out. This of course made it pretty much impossible for me to see clearly through the windshield.
With the inner fog removed about 50% of the way up, I was counting on going another few hundred feet knowing the sun would be blocked by a tree.
Instead, I found myself plowing the ABS brakes and stopping about an inch and a half from a parked materials trailer that had been unhooked and left in the road, cones and all.
It didn't even register what it was in real time. My mind processed it as something that should not be there. 100% instinct. Had I not been driving the 25 mile an hour speed limit I would not have been able to stop. And as a 95 S car with only a driver steering wheel airbag, I would have come to a dead stop and gotten hurt. Yes, I wear seat belts.
Been driving for 35 years. Like everyone else I have done stupid shayt and gotten away with it. Completely not my MO.
I know the car, I know the roads.
But if you can't see what's in front of you for a few seconds, even though it's supposed to be clear like it's been the previous thousand times, that doesn't mean that it is.
So don't make the simple assumption that you are always in full control behind the wheel and the master of your surroundings.
You never are.
Take the extra 2 minutes. Nothing is so important that it is worth risking not getting there.
Last edited by derf; Jan 20, 2021 at 07:43 AM.
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