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Tow truck companies know it, driving instructors are certain of it and insurance firms have no doubt about it — Sydney drivers are the worst when it comes to coping with wet weather.

As soon as the rain fell yesterday, many of the city's motorists failed to slow down and take the road conditions into consideration.

More than 100 minor crashes and breakdowns were recorded across Sydney throughout the day as up to 50mm of rain fell on the city. Many more accidents went unreported.

RTA spokesman Alec Brown said there is always a spate of crashes in the first stages of a wet weather cycle because many city drivers suffer the psychological term “Optimism Bias”.

“A large number of drivers have a viewpoint that even though it's wet they can handle the speed they usually travel,” he said.

“They think they know the roads and can handle the conditions.

Source: CarsGuide

Today, in a 90 zone - mona vale road was in the mrs car doing not even 80 cause it was really freakin hard to see, and I had tools flying past me and tail gating me, even though im in the left lane

I think kellogs had a prmotion thingy and shitloads of sydnye siders got their licence from 1 in 3 packs

I find it weird how many drivers dont use their headlights in wet weather, he headlights have 2 purposes, to see and be seen yet many drivers forget this. During my usual 250km of travels today I was doing some random counting in the Blue Mtns this morning and it was about 40% of cars without any lights on at all which is a very high number.

I find it weird how many drivers dont use their headlights in wet weather, he headlights have 2 purposes, to see and be seen yet many drivers forget this.

You wouldn't believe how many f**king retards there are out there that are actively opposed to daytime running lights.

Read that site - its amazing how stupid people are. Anyone who's ever driven on a highway knows how much easier it is to spot other traffic if they've got their lights on, guesstimate how far away they are, and easy determine what direction they're travelling in. All very important data if you're making a wrong-side overtaking move.

That's before you get into dawn/dusk situations where its hard to make out cars with all those shadows.

They crap on about how it blinds / dazzles other drivers. What the hell? You could high beam someone during the day, and because the headlight / ambient light differential isn't that great they're hardly going to get dazzled. Normal headlights don't do squat to other drivers' vision.

I'm all for DRL. I think they should be mandatory everywhere.

Edited by scathing
I find it weird how many drivers dont use their headlights in wet weather, he headlights have 2 purposes, to see and be seen yet many drivers forget this. During my usual 250km of travels today I was doing some random counting in the Blue Mtns this morning and it was about 40% of cars without any lights on at all which is a very high number.

I have often been amazed at the high number of cars not using their headlights in inclement weather. I travel 200kms per day to get to work and have also noticed the lack of hazard lights in fog, particularly on the F6. Furthermore, I was (not) suprised by a P-plater overtaking me doing at least 130 whilst I was sitting on 85-90 during heavy rain and wind on the F6 today. Tailgating in dry conditionsis not acceptable driving behaviour, yet I saw it done often today.

Sydney drivers lose their common sense when it rains.

Also a lot of people suffer from the good old "liquid horsepower" when it rains and cars that cant normally wheelspin are getting sideways every chance they get.

I know! Had an idiot in a ute going up and down the street to test how much he would slide.

Dude looked like a complete retard.

Let me inform all Sydney drivers that LAS VEGAS, NEVADA are the worlds worst drivers in Rain.

Just take it trip to Vegas between Dec and Feb of any year and just watch people drive and slide.

You would think 5" inches of snow had falled.......LOL

Vegas is the worst.

I lived and worked in Malaysia for a while and had the pleasure of driving there and I can tell you that they have got to be the worst, bar none ! To survive I partially had to adopt thier dirving style which was basically is who dares wins combined with keeping the accelerator flat to the foor all the time !

Also a lot of people suffer from the good old "liquid horsepower" when it rains and cars that cant normally wheelspin are getting sideways every chance they get.

i love it.

*prays to rain gods for more rain*

nothing beats mud tho. Dirt roads + rain = hours of fun

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