Ludwig, "So… in the real world, the speed limit does NOT mean the speed limit! What the signs say, what is policed and what is general practice, are quite different things"

Rapacious government will see the limit being the exact limit as technology improves. It is becoming a game of gotcha and 'ka-ching' as the cash register sounds as more indirect taxes are collected by government.

Brisbane has multiple speed cameras in relatively short tunnels and other units are springing up like mushrooms. It is becoming common for motorists to ride brakes down slopes. Never a good practice and energy wasting as well, but there is radar at the bottom of hills. For example, many are caught with hand-held speed cameras on the descent of a short sharp hill overpass leading from Brisbane cbd to western 'burbs via Coronation Drive.

<< I didn't know that, Ludwig.

>>Yes Is Mise, [motorists should tip off other drivers] even though it is illegal to do so<<

What would the charge be? >>

Hello Pericles, old mate!

It is illegal to use you headlights for any purpose other than what they are designed for – night driving, or fog. So I was informed by a police officer in the Lismore police station.

Interesting thing happened in Brisbane. I drove along a stretch of road past a speed trap. Then drove back along that stretch a while later in tandem with a work mate in front of me. I flashed my lights at him as he seemed to be going too fast into this trap. Indeed he was. Cop pulled us both over. Booked him and gave me a stern lecture about flashing my lights.

So one can assume that it is indeed illegal to flash your lights…. If the cops actually know the law that is!

rehctub,

What we are not told about is all the damage to cars that hitting fair sized animals causes, and remember if one swerves to avoid an animal one may be charged.
I know one local girl who swerved to avoid a 'roo, missed the 'roo but went off the road and wrecked her car; to add insult to her slight injuries she was fined for negligent driving.

Driving a truck with a large bull bar is one answer to the menace.

Ludwig, you say using your headlights for any purpose other than at night/fog.

How then do you explain all these vehicles driving on highways now with their lights on during the day as a safety measure, a measure that is in fact encouraged by law makers.

Are they all breaking the law?

I will stick with my belief that it's not illegal to flash so long as you don't use high beam because I am actually assuring police in their efforts to slow speeding motorists down.

After all, is that not their intention? To slow people down.

<< Ludwig, you say using your headlights for any purpose other than at night/fog. >>

Rehctub, that is what I was emphatically told by an officer at the Lismore police station.

Yes it sits in stark contrast to the message that implores us to have our headlights on all the time, day or night.

So, what is the strict legal situation? I don’t know. It probably wouldn’t be hard to look up… but what’s the point if the police are going to assert and police something different!

I was confronted by absurd tailgating and other antics on the road, which I reported firstly at the Casino police station and then at the Lismore police station a couple of years ago.

I went to the Lismore station because the Casino police just completely didn’t want to know about it.

The cop in Lismore was hardly any better and only very reluctantly agreed to let me make a statement. As soon as I said that I had flashed my headlights at the mongrel tailgater after he eventually overtook, he practically flew off the handle at me and refused to proceed with the statement.

This experience, along with several others over the years has led me to conclude that you just completely can’t guess what sort of response you might get from the police, and that you are better off NEVER ever having ANYTHING to do with them if at all possible!

Some states ask you to drive with headlights on low beam, possibly SA and WA
And never drive with fog lights on without fog. New cars are equipped with driving lights for daytime use they are LED's. The only lights that flash are blinkers or hazard lights, anything else is taboo.