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It's not just hail damage, but visibility can also severely limited in huge storms. With a lot of water on the road risk of aquaplaning can also grow higher. Modern windshields shatter to a lot of small pieces, if a big hail hits it you won't see nothing.
It can be safer to wait some minutes until the core of the storm moves away a bit. Just don't forget to switch on both turn signals, aka hazard warning signals. At least it's a common thing here where I live.
I've done this before, the rain could look less frightening on a fixed video than how you feel if you drive in it.
Why not do it when the conditions are also bad (bad visibility, lots of water), why only in hailstorms?
Also, arent hailstorms usually accompanied by little to no rain (rain usually follows a hailstorm, not the other way around, idk/afaik)?
And if aquaplaning is a serious concern (in the current millennium) you are either driving way too fast for your car & tires or have really bad (or ornamental) tires.
Sure, road quality is a factor too, but if you adjusted your speed to the conditions, you would see any giant rivers/lakes in the middle of the road.
Generally you should anticipate aquaplaning at basically any moment - and adjust the speed to that.
(That is counting on how capable you car electronics are to compensate for basic stability & the fact that aquaplaning is not something you would expect to go on for 100+ meters – that's a lake, you should be able to spot it in time or you are again driving too fast for the visibility.)
The speed limit doesn't tell you how fast you can drive in any conditions.
(But modern highways will automatically lower speed limits if conditions are that bad, or at least try to, so there is less idiots driving at full speed bcs that is what they are used to.)
(Also, I didn't know modern windshields crack into more pieces what the old ones - structurally afaik they remained the same, and idk what legislature would show then to crack worse. Do you have any info on that? I don't know what to look for. Just looking at random pics it might be brand/money dependant unfortunately. Like with most such things, there are huge price differences between windshields, OEM vs third party too.)
Couldn't you, like, pull over on the side of the road for a very similar effect, rather than parking in the middle of the lane on a highway?
Wonder if it’s legal (prev comment)
Not letting through an ambulance is a different question, and obviously it depends on the volume of traffic it can be done safely. Yes on this image it's clear they are doing it wrong, but as I've seen in other posts not letting through an ambulance is mostly an american thing only. Here if you don't give way to an ambulance deliberately and a police car sees it, they can confiscate your driving license on the spot, so this is not really a problem here.