Best Driving practice/Style in different Traffic/Road conditions

Generally all indicators glow concurrently on both sides (left/right & front/rear).  I'm not aware of changes, if any, in some latest high-end cars/models.

1.

While usage of hazard lights in fog/low visibility is debatable, a moving vehicle with hazard lights on certainly causes confusion, especially when it is right ahead of you.

I have seen vehicles like this and i try to find out what the driver of the vehicle intends to do. Does the driver want to inidicate that he is facing serious trouble and wants to stop ? or does he keep driving with the lights on ?

Sadly i have seen that ppl tend to do the latter. There does seem to be a tendency to use hazard lights unappropriately.

2.

On numerous occasions i run into this situation. Suppose you're approaching an intersection or a turn and speek is 20-30 km/h

with the 2nd gear engaged. A pedestrian/vehicle suddenly comes into your path and you have to brake, and the engine rpm falls to an uncomfortable range where accelerating in 2nd gear strains the clutch but downshifting to 1st causes engine rpm to go high. How do most drivers pull out of this situation ?

2. 

After braking the engine speed is too low for the 2nd gear to pull-hence cause lugging. Two solutions to this.

-slip the clutch and accelerate

-reduce speed further and change to 1st.

1. You don't expect everyone to follow rules. If it were true, accidents would never happen. Anticipate, and act, to be safe in risky weather.

2. There is not THAT much of a difference in first and second gear so that it redlines in first and stalls in second. Use clutch to prevent engine from stalling, change to first and then move on as one does from first gear.

@Binoy:

-slip the clutch and accelerate: Thats what i practise, but this happens daily and i'll end up reducing clutch life...

@Krishna

There is not THAT much of a difference in first and second gear so that it redlines in first and stalls in second

It does happen with my aged esteem vx.... but yes, it could point to a clutch/pressure plate replacement

Coming back to the problem of using bliking hazard lights during foggy conditions, will it not be wonderful if all car manufactutrers have a switch to keep all the amber indicator lights continuously on during foggy conditions and turn indicators and hazard lights in blinking mode to serve all the three situations? I have noticed that the amber lights are really visible long before the head lights or tail lights in such conditions. I feel that the foglights available are hardly effective at all.

Dr Peeyush Chaudhary

While driving in fog/rain/less visibility conditions, the practice of switching on the hazards is only to indicate to the car coming behind to be a bit careful. But in my honest opinion, if you switch on the parking lights and also the rear fog light would be more than sufficient for a car following to notice. Hazards only lead to confusion, especially when you intend to turn.

The rear fog light option, is an option, which most of the drivers are not aware of (including me, I was aware of it only after owning it for an year). The SA in MASS adviced me to use it if driving beyond the prescribed speed limits(say 100+kph).

Also, I see a very common mistake most of the drivers do is to forget to switch off the indicators after a lane change. There is a half switch option in the indicators which again is goes unaware by most of the users.

Ignorance in Bliss sometimes, but reading the manual helps a lot !!