If your car is damaged and it turns out it has three times the miles you told your insurer it had, that would probably be an issue for you, right? At minimum it would impact how much they pay you to repair/replace, and they’d probably hike your rates up going forward.
Yeah but that's an easily identifiable marker, just check the odometer. I guess you could theoretically get a "daylight driving only" quote for your insurance, but no one would ever take that.
Good points on all the other hazards at night. I’m just guessing “there are fewer things to hit” outweighs everything else the vast majority of the time.
I'd argue there's a basically infinite number of things to hit with your car at any given moment. Traffic also slows people down, which reduces the chance of someone careening their car into a storefront. That probably doesn't work as well at night.
Between working as a rideshare driver and a lot of distance drives for work/travel, I really prefer driving at night. Even in major cities or busy highways you often find largely empty roads.
which if you're not a moron: good, safe. Which, if you are, and there's a substantial amount of drivers that fit the bill: that's an invitation to go speeding recklessly since "There's no cars to hit" until you crash.
Coming at this from a bicycle perspective: riding in the daytime is high risk / low intensity, riding at night is low risk / high intensity.
One is a constant scare to get sideclipped by some asshole going 3mph faster, but that's survivable. The other one is being fine, then being dead, because I got clipped at 35mph excess because "there's no one on the roads at this time anyways"
Yeah but that's an easily identifiable marker, just check the odometer. I guess you could theoretically get a "daylight driving only" quote for your insurance, but no one would ever take that.
I'd argue there's a basically infinite number of things to hit with your car at any given moment. Traffic also slows people down, which reduces the chance of someone careening their car into a storefront. That probably doesn't work as well at night.
which if you're not a moron: good, safe. Which, if you are, and there's a substantial amount of drivers that fit the bill: that's an invitation to go speeding recklessly since "There's no cars to hit" until you crash.
Coming at this from a bicycle perspective: riding in the daytime is high risk / low intensity, riding at night is low risk / high intensity.
One is a constant scare to get sideclipped by some asshole going 3mph faster, but that's survivable. The other one is being fine, then being dead, because I got clipped at 35mph excess because "there's no one on the roads at this time anyways"