Women Driving with Shirt or Sweater Worn Backwards
-
I have observed and witnessed on many occasions, women drivers have this habit of wearing a shirt or a sweater backwards, so that their arms are in the sleaves to protect from sunlight.
While I can understand the intention is an innocent one, but I am however very doubtful that this is a SAFE practice. What are the chances of the garment restricting their arm movements in an emergency?
Would like all your opinions on this one, and for all those of your women drivers, please consider the dangers of this practice. -
THEY think chances is less then getting a sun tan.Originally posted by ShutterBug:I have observed and witnessed on many occasions, women drivers have this habit of wearing a shirt or a sweater backwards, so that their arms are in the sleaves to protect from sunlight.
While I can understand the intention is an innocent one, but I am however very doubtful that this is a SAFE practice. What are the chances of the garment restricting their arm movements in an emergency?
Would like all your opinions on this one, and for all those of your women drivers, please consider the dangers of this practice. -
Bingo!Originally posted by Apollo_sg:THEY think chances is less then getting a sun tan. -
i dont see anythng unsafe with this act. it wont restrict much movement. if it does then i think its much more unsafe when ppl wear huge coat to drive
-
cos if women dun do that at the end of the day driving whole day the right arm will be different colour with the left hand...
-
women have been known to go to "beauticians" who butcher them..
in order to "look better", safety, sanity and good sense sometimes take a back seat...
alas... -
stupid women... go buy driving gloves that can cover the entire freakin arm.... sheesh
-
They drive auto, less arm movements.
-
not only women la...
i've seen a few guys doing tt.
i have a friend who totally hates pple who do tt.
He says they shouldn't be driving if they're so afraid of the sun.
-
to all the drivers who are afraid of being tanned:
the great late Richard Feynman viewed an atomic bomb explosion during the Manhatten project without any eye-shade protection. He simply watched it in his truck from behind the windscreen. The nobel prize laurate reasoned that since blindness is caused by excessive ultraviolet and the windscreen is more than able to shield off most of the UV rays, he thought he could just watch the explosion with his naked eyes from his truck. He lived to see till he died of cance in 1988.
What I want to say is that your glass windows can shield off most UV rays. If you look at all those solar films in the market, which brand doesn't say UV shield is 99% effective? This is because UV is most easily shielded. What is difficult is infrared radiation. That small amount of UV that entered your car is not going to cause much tan. Hence, there isn't much need for you to shield with a piece of cloth.
Maybe I am wrong, but is there anyone who noticed themselves being tanned in a car? I have heard of cases where one arm is tanned more than another. So far this might just be an urban legend. I've never seen one. Did anyone saw such cases yourselves?
-
when i went touring in australia in a car (we put 10,000km on the rental car), i was tanned on one arm
but the main thing is this: don't get yourself entangled when driving.. -
Is this physics? Entanglement, quantum mechanics, Uncertainty Principle...fwah~Originally posted by the Bear:when i went touring in australia in a car (we put 10,000km on the rental car), i was tanned on one arm
but the main thing is this: don't get yourself entangled when driving.. -
Explain Motorcycle riders'...
-
Errr but i think u cannot get a tan if u are not directly exposed to the sun.... or the tan mite be minimal till u mite not even discover it. If not everyone will not go under the sun to tan...sunlight come into our house thru the window... everyone will be lying at the spot where the sun is shining into the hse loh.
-
sure tio tanned if u drive long dist...
i kena when i drive in N-S highway... -
For ladies who does not want darken fore-arms, buy or knit yourselves a pair of sleaves to shield your fore-arms, and apply sunblock on the topside of your hands.
Don't continue this dangerous practice of wearing a shirt or jacket or sweater backwards. Because when a fatal accident happens because of this practice, then you'd have yourselves a new Traffic Law.
It is perfectly fine and innocent to be caring about one's complexion. But not at the expense of other road users' safety, and yourself. -
What? I'm not sure I understand, as far as I know about sleeved shirts or jackets if you wear them forward or backwards, the sleeves still cover your arms.Originally posted by ShutterBug:I have observed and witnessed on many occasions, women drivers have this habit of wearing a shirt or a sweater backwards, so that their arms are in the sleaves to protect from sunlight.
While I can understand the intention is an innocent one, but I am however very doubtful that this is a SAFE practice. What are the chances of the garment restricting their arm movements in an emergency?
Would like all your opinions on this one, and for all those of your women drivers, please consider the dangers of this practice. -
Yes, shirt/jackets/sweaters can and are, usually worn back to front in the normal way. I am however, refering thos ladies who out of CONVENIENCE, wear them backwards while driving just so they don't tan their arms.
Get it? -
i dunno how much it'll affect ur movements..but it will..a seatbelt will definitely hinder in ur arms movement isnt it?? are we not going to wear seatbelt??
pt being..up to personal preference..if they can move their arms freely wearing that shirt..den let them be..if they cant..den bless them -
Curiously, how DOES a seatbelt hinder arm movements?? If it is so, how come seatbelts are mandatory devices drivers need use?
Perhaps, you should try on a sweater/shirt/jacket backwards, then line up some road pilons and try to negate them by weaving your car in and out between them at 30Kmh.
If nothing happens, do it faster, as most accidents occur at higher speeds where reaction is critical - such as 60Kmh and above.
Then see how the backward worn shirt/sweater/jacket behaves with all that arm movements.