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Would you people please stop driving with your high beams on?! Maybe my eyes are sensitive but when someone follows me with their high beams on I get the persistent lights in my eyes. Even in daylight. I usually have to adjust my mirrors so that I can’t see their lights. Why you’d use your high beams in the day is beyond me but it’s not a rare occurrence. I’d suggest a hand signal but oncoming traffic with high beams don’t respond to me flashing my high beams so they surely wouldn’t understand an esoteric hand signal. So what’s the solution? Do I need to program an LED sign that says “Might I bother you to turn off your high beams?” | ||
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the "You're number 1" hand signal? Regards, P. | |||
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High beam drivers also want to know what that blinking green light means. | |||
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I’ve just started to accommodate. More and more i realize you can’t fix stupid. "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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Nullus Anxietas |
Slam on your brakes, suddenly and unexpectedly, to break their headlights?  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I think what you might be seeing is the trend toward high output LED headlights. They are intensely bright, much more so than traditional halogen lights, even on the low setting. If they are at an angle to shine in your eyes or into your mirrors they will blind you. I have given the brief high beam flash to many oncoming cars, the signal that their brights are on, only to have them flash me back with their even brighter high beams. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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What I really hate are those cheap high intensity LED self-installed aftermarket light box/bar things. Do you really need a box of LED's at chest height or higher shining right at my eyes. This in light of the fact that federal law prohibits really high front facing fog/head lights. And to make it worse, people are mounting these bright LED light bars on the roof of the car/truck. Oh great. For less than $40 anyone can be a complete jerk on the road. . | |||
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| That is my spot. |
This and the fact that MANY cars are coming from the factory (and DEFINITELY out of "upgrades") with incorrectly aimed beams. I test drove 6 different cars and 5 had misaligned lights from the factory. ***************** Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Ben Franklin | |||
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I miss the old days when high beams meant you had four headlights going. Nowadays it’s difficult to tell. My car has the same bulb for high and low beams. The led self levels when i start the car. It’s so bright a lot of people think i have high beams on and flash me. I flash back to show they are low beams. I checked and the low beams are aimed correctly. There’s no way for me to adjust them. A lot of people put aftermarket leds in that aren’t adjusted for their car’s reflectors and those are the people who are annoying Not minority enough! | |||
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I ask her to put on a double padded bra on the off chance it is gross. Most of the time i encourage it, as I'm a child of the 70's 70's and early 80's........yum. "And I think about my loves,well I've had a few. Well,I'm sorry that I hurt them, did I hurt you too" I Was Wrong--Social D. | |||
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| Edge seeking Sharp blade! |
You must be careful though, I once got two black eyes when I assisted jeans stuck in crack. When she hit me, I incorrectly thought she wanted them tucked back in. | |||
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Drop a few golf balls out the window….it usually makes them back off….JK I hate this also. My SGt used to drive around everywhere with his brights on because the housing was clouded…I eventually cleaned one w/o telling him…someone else saw it in the staff and made him get new ones. I hate the high intensity lights. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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"And I think about my loves,well I've had a few. Well,I'm sorry that I hurt them, did I hurt you too" I Was Wrong--Social D. | |||
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If the offender was behind me, used to flash my brakes once or twice and it worked. I was taught, as so many in my generation, what that quick flash of brake lights meant, and we checked ourselves. If oncoming, a quick flash of my high beams... Same thing. THIS usually works, though sometimes they dim, you see they have a low beam out, then they go back to bright, deciding their defective equipment gives them the right to blind you. "You can tell a lot about the character of a man, by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him." | |||
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| Made from a different mold  |
If they're coming at me, I return the favor until they decide they're no longer gonna be assholes. If behind me I usually scoot up the road a little faster or simply let them go by. I will say that there seems to be more and more of this happening and it is getting out of control, especially with the LED's on todays vehicles. I think it is a combination of factors such as Auto Dimming lights (that only dim at about 50 feet ahead), selfish assholes that believe that they're the only ones on the road, and a lack of enforcement. Add that to the fact that most citiots will use only their high beams when out in the country because they don't have street lights to help illuminate the road for them. ___________________________ No thanks, I've already got a penguin. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
If I’m driving my F-350 I can fix that behavior immediately. I have a 30” Baja Design light bar integrated into my grill and with the flip of the switch night is turned into day for the next half a mile. It’s amazing how quick they change their mind. I never use them unless there is no one approaching for a very long ways… ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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Illegal to turn them on in MN, unless on an emergency vehicle. They are required to be covered on public roads. I used to cite douchebags all the time for the offense. | |||
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My wife’s Lexus has auto high beams. I find them slow to respond and frequently people high beam her to complain. Oh well. I’ve also noticed many new vehicles led lights are too bright for low beams. I mistake them for high. These go to eleven. | |||
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| semi-reformed sailor |
Yeah in NC you can only have FOUR forward facing lamps…..I wrote some kid who had a bar of leds on his rollbar(I had warned him earlier in the month)his mom called me and tried to get me to drop it..when I told her of the prior warning she was at a loss, as junior hadn’t mentioned getting stopped…I then went on about every police encounter the computer showed me…I think it ruined his day. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Back in the day when cars still had separate high- and low-beam headlights you could buy aircraft landing lights that dropped right in in place of standard lights. So, naturally, I did that  Boy, could you ever see a long ways down the road with those.Same thing: On-coming twit with high-beams on: *flash* <no response> *flash* *flash* <no response> "Very well, then": Turn 'em ON. Worked every time  Funny story about those lights: Was stationed at Ft. Monmouth in New Jersey. NJ had started implementing left turn first at selected intersections. This gave NJ drivers the go-ahead to do that everywhere, even in intersections with no left-turn-first signal. So one night when a car did that to me, I lit him up. Turned out to be a cop. No problem, though. After that he couldn't see diddly. Pulled over to the side of the road and just stopped. I didn't wait around for his night vision to recover. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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