Loud music while driving

[hollydolly]

I like to always have the radio on when I'm driving, but some people seem to be having a party in their car

For example a car has just driven past my house.. ( I always have windows open) .. and the music was night club level and the same standard... SO LOUD !... do you think people can be concentrating properly on the road when they have such loud music playing inside their car...


what's your bug bear with drivers ?

 

[Purwell]

You can see the car vibrate sometimes!

My pet hate drivers who block roundabouts.

 

[hollydolly]

You can see the car vibrate sometimes!

My pet hate drivers who block roundabouts.

Very true, the music is so loud you can see the car vibrate

How do you mean block the roundabouts ?..

 

[TheOtherRick]

When I was a pup I couldn't drive anywhere without the music cranked all the way up, now I could go hundreds of miles in silence.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm one of those car vibrating, loud music nuts. When your song comes on, you just have to do that.
My gripe is drivers, who pull out right in front of you, so that you have to slam on the brakes. Then they drive 30 miles under the speed limit. If they can just mosey on down the road, why in the hell couldn't they wait for an opening to enter into traffic?

 

[Nathan]

I never have the radio on while driving, the sound is just annoying and distracting.

 

[MarkinPhx]

When I was a pup I couldn't drive anywhere without the music cranked all the way up, now I could go hundreds of miles in silence.

Same here. First thing I bought after I got my first car was a Fosgate audio system.

 

[hollydolly]

I'm one of those car vibrating, loud music nuts. When your song comes on, you just have to do that.
My gripe is drivers, who pull out right in front of you, so that you have to slam on the brakes. Then they drive 30 miles under the speed limit. If they can just mosey on down the road, why in the hell couldn't they wait for an opening to enter into traffic?

OMG !!! That is my absolute personal pet peeve.. ...what's worse is they can see you coming along the road.. and wait until you're almost on top of them before pulling out.. then driving at a snails pace....

 

[hollydolly]

I never have the radio on while driving, the sound is just annoying and distracting.

I like it on i feel unsettled if there's no radio on when I'm driving, but I don't play it to entertain the rest of the town....

 

[hollydolly]

Same here. First thing I bought after I got my first car was a Fosgate audio system.

yes but you were 17..... do you still drive like that ?

 

[Nathan]

@hollydolly , I don't know what changed, but about 20 years ago listening to either music or 'talk' radio started grating on my nerves .

 

[dilettante]

I probably have my music cranked high enough for others to notice even with the windows closed, but at least I don't have a big thumping subwoofer.

My gripe is the idiots who can only drive one speed. While the speed limit is low, they drive too fast. When the limit increases, they drive too slow: 35 they drive 40, 45 they drive 40.

I can only assume they still have one of those Flintstone-era gear-jammers or Renaissance-era slushboxes for a transmission and it only has "slots" widely spaced apart.

 

[MarkinPhx]

yes but you were 17..... do you still drive like that ?

Not in the city. But I do crank it up at times when I am out of the city and on a highway with wide open lanes and little traffic.

Edit: Especially if on a dark desert highway, cool wind wind in my hair

 

[Radrook]

I had music playing but never loud enough to make the car vibrate.
Two favorite singers were Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

 

[timoc]

Any kind of so called background music that drowns out the dialogue in TV dramas is the thing that makes me boil.

 

[chic]

I like music in the car but never so loud that things vibrate. My pet peeve is people doing something to themselves in the rearview mirror then missing a change in traffic lights or something similar. PAY ATTENTION.

 

[OldFeller]

I've never been inside a car that plays their music for the neighborhood. So I wonder if the sound is pushing past the passenger compartment and is more loud outside the car than inside.

 

[hollydolly]

@hollydolly , I don't know what changed, but about 20 years ago listening to either music or 'talk' radio started grating on my nerves .

I understand in many ways... very often recently I've had to drive without the radio on because the presenters are so low class compared to the past and I can't bear them...

 

[hollydolly]

Not in the city. But I do crank it up at times when I am out of the city and on a highway with wide open lanes and little traffic.

Edit: Especially if on a dark desert highway, cool wind wind in my hair

yes I do that too... you're not disturbing anyone out in the rural roads ...but the trouble is when people then turn into where we have our homes here in the lanes off the open roads .. they don't turn the music down.. My house vibrates...

 

[MarkinPhx]

yes I do that too... you're not disturbing anyone out in the rural roads ...but the trouble is when people then turn into where we have our homes here in the lanes off the open roads .. they don't turn the music down.. My house vibrates...

I agree about the city streets ! Plus it can endanger emergency vehicles on the road because the driver can't hear the sirens.

 

[OldFeller]

I agree about the city streets ! Plus it can endanger emergency vehicles on the road because the driver can't hear the sirens.

In the city I live in, the way people drive is more of a very real danger than the loud music. Nobody observes traffic lanes or traffic lights anymore. They drive as if they have no responsibility to other drivers on the road.

 

[hollydolly]

I agree about the city streets ! Plus it can endanger emergency vehicles on the road because the driver can't hear the sirens.

I'm not in the city I'm in the country... the noise is even louder here from these cars ...

 

[hollydolly]

In the city I live in, the way people drive is more of a very real danger than the loud music. Nobody observes traffic lanes or traffic lights anymore. They drive as if they have no responsibility to other drivers on the road.

same here in our cities....used to be everyone was polite to each other...now it's all road rage

 

[OldFeller]

same here in our cities....used to be everyone was polite to each other...now it's all road rage

It must have something to do with the distraction caused by cell phones.

 

[Jackie23]

Yes, I'm guilty, but not so much lately....I have a bad habit of reach- ing over to bump to the next song and I have to take my eyes off the road...depending on traffic, I sometimes have to just turn the radio off...too distracting and risky.