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Is it me or, am I seeing more and more people, driving down the road/freeway with their high beams on the entire time? I remembered my dad teaching me how to drive, he'd hammer it in, the only time you used your high beams was when there's nobody in front of you, regardless if it's a vehicle in front of you or, coming in the opposite direction; if you can see their lights white or, red, turn your high beams off. Today, there seems to be a lot more people without any awareness or, concern that they're blinding other drivers. | ||
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I think it's due to two things: 1) the advances in automotive lighting technology over recent years -- more and more cars are using LED headlights now, for instance. 2) these danged daytime running lights (DRLs). I've ranted on those before, but the short of it is that they're a) way too danged bright, b) they don't get turned off when the regular headlights come on, and c) it's like an arms race among manufacturers to see whose DRLs can be most obnoxious. (Cadillac? Are you listening?). Oh, and d) none of the manufacturers (except maybe Volvo) light up the back end with the DRL circuit, but that's yet another rant. A third cause is likely simple driver inattention. Again, advances in technology: automatic-on headlights are more common now, and drivers simply don't put effort into manually turning their lights on. God bless America. | |||
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Since we're on the subject... PUT YOUR HEADLIGHTS ON IN THE RAIN! | |||
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But... but... I can see! (The typical non-attention-paying-driver response.) God bless America. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I see many many many cars with the headlight covers lens things all glazed and frosted over, totally cloudy, a known defect in the plastic. You’ve seen it too. I’m going to assume these people flip their high beams on just to be able to see, screw all the other drivers, cyclists, walkers and joggers etc. They’re too lazy or to cheap to take care and spend some effort to clean or replace their head lamp lenses. I’m in favor of the fed gov making these crappy things illegal for the car makers to use and sell. There has to be a better material. | |||
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Glass is far less susceptible to UV damage but... well... it' glass.  God bless America. | |||
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| Gloom, despair and agony on me.  |
This. I get people constantly flashing me thinking my high beams are on and I don’t even had the super bright LED lights. | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
Nobody bothers to get their headlights aimed after lifting their trucks or replacing stock headlights with the sooperdooper grass burners. If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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| Saluki |
Uhm, fuck you I'm too damned valuable to society to use dim lights. Wear your sunglasses choad. That's what I hear anyway. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Some days it seems as though every other jerkoff is putting aftermarket HID bulbs in without the proper housing/reflector so the bright ass light spills like crazy, and technically they're not "driving with the brights on" so they don't even consider the impact or care. And that's on top of the advances in headlights and daytime running lights being the norm which accounts for the normal people... | |||
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I think some do it because a low beam is burned out and they’re too cheap to get it replaced. Less likely to get pulled over for high beams than a headlight out. | |||
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| SIGforum Official Eye Doc  |
Not just you. | |||
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I stopped flashing my high beams since I'm not sure the other vehicle's high beams are on or not. If anyone cares, the law in Texas is you can't have your high beams on approaching another vehicle within 500' from the front and within 300' from the rear. Retired Texas Lawman | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
I installed a 30" Baja Design set of LED lights that fit perfectly in the grill of my Super Duty because the stock lights on Ford trucks suck. I only use it when off-road .....except when some yahoo drives with their high beams on then I blast them! They learn real quick. You can literally read a book 1/4 mile away with the lumens this sucker puts out. They are designed to run the Baja 1000 where the trucks blast down the desert at 80 plus mph.. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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I blame the automatic headlights. Both our cars have sensors to automatically turn on the headlights. However, I’ve had these same sensors shut the headlights off. I was driving in the rain, headlights on, then they were shit off. Best I can figure is these sensors run on the light level and maybe on the time of day. They sure aren’t connected to the wipers. People have become used to the lights coming on without their doing anything. They just assume that the lights are on and will stay on. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
That's pet peeve of mine. I never use high beams unless I'm on a country road with light traffic and no street lights. Seems some people use them until someone flashes them. That said, both of our cars have auto high beam turn off which sense oncoming traffic and turns on low beams. Works very will and if it errors, it's in favor of defaulting to low beams. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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Instead of self driving cars, perhaps we could just make headlights have a little more intelligence so that when people 'upgrade' or modify or fix their lights or lift their trucks or whatever, the headlights have some intelligence built in to self-adjust and make sure that they aren't blinding on-coming traffic. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Around here in the Hills, you need high beams to help see the deer, elk, cows and other critters. Almost everybody does dim their lights appropriately! But what does occur, it is almost dusk, fog, snow, cloud at high of road, , and they can see the road, but don't tell use their headlights so you can see them! Amazing how a grey, silver, brown, dirty white, faded paint, etc. vehicle disappears in dim conditions. Especially when they pull out from a side road just around a curve, hidden by trees. DOT does do a good job of keeping the right of way grass trimmed, though in S. D. they do bale the ROW for hay. Jim | |||
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I would like to add. Put your headlights on in fog and heavy snow! | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
The older I get, the more difficulty I have driving at night with regard to being sensitive to bright lights. Any more, I give the oncoming driver one chance with a quick flash. If they don't dim, I nuke them. The worst for me are the a-holes that you meet cresting a hill or coming around a corner and they don't dim until too late. They know damned good and well that another vehicle is coming but they leave on the brights and fry my damned retinas. I am really tempted to mount an airplane landing light on my brush guard as a special treat for those jerk-offs. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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