Submitted by Traditional-Oil7281 t3_zr0u5u in boston
I know that driving without headlights or just with parking lights is a thing around here. But do people also drive with high beams in the city, or do they just have more powerful headlights that my lowly Japanese sedan?
Nothing quite like trying to merge into another lane but not being able to see out of my side mirror because some jackass has his high beams right behind me.
Angle your sideview mirror so that their ahole lights shine right back at them. I don't recommend on highway, but other roads go right ahead. They will back off at least.
I actually tried that, my mirror wouldn’t tilt far enough.
Love too be tailgated by trucks, when their halogens are so high up and bright that they cast a shadow in front my car at night. All because I'm only going 52 in a 45.
It's to balance out the people driving without any lights.
The amount of people who drive at night without headlights on is pretty crazy. I see at least 1 person like 50% of the time I drive at night now. I have given up flashing my high beams to alert them
I see them literally every night when I’m walking the dog. And I can sort of understand it in the city with it being so bright.
But what blows my mind is when it’s the cops. Like guys, WTF?!
Step 1, lights on. Step 2, car in gear.
It’s not hard!
I don't understand why people don't just always keep the lights on. Unless you're driving an older car that doesn't turn the lights off automatically, keep them on for Christ sake. There's no reason for them to ever be off. You're not going to run out of headlight juice.
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I miss the pre-snopes days when we didn't flash high beams at someone with lights off at night because they were probably in a gang and would kill people who did that. Pretty hard to have an urban legend anymore.
Snopes?
Apparently, we're in the post-Snopes era. :)
> Pretty hard to have an urban legend anymore.
People didn't let their kids go trick or treating 5 years ago because the entire country thought there were killer clowns running loose.
That actually included some arrests for threatening behavior involving clowns because everyone's a copycat now-a-days.
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They use flamethrowers I swear. High beams at the Wendy's drive-through? What for? I had to pull my side mirror all the way in. This was an hour ago. I, too, drive a lowly Japanese sedan and I don't even know if it was a monster truck or SUV behind me, I was blinded.
Japanese? Is it tiny? A lot of times the height of the car you are driving in changes the angle at which you’re looking at headlights.
I just switched from an SUV to a sedan and I feel like im blind every time I drive out at night. It being wet and light reflecting everywhere probably doesn’t help either.
Not tiny just low and 7 year old.
The trucks and SUVs are getting taller, and the headlights brighter
LED headlights vs crappy old ones. And I believe your car sits lower so more vehicle headlights are right in your line of sight compared to other vehicles where you sit higher relative to the road
The trucks and SUVs are getting taller and the lights are horribly bright. The old ones are fine.
Old is fine, but complete garbage in certain weather conditions. So I would never elect the latter
Many people drive with just the Daytime Running Lights, not realizing that they are not automatic lights and that there are no lights on the back. Also, newer LED lights are very bright.
There are super strong halogen bulbs and if you're in a smaller sedan a lot of cars are higher up than you so the angle is going to fuck you up.
I drive a sedan, half the time I think someone has their high beams on, they’re just a new truck or suv whose low beams are mounted at the level of my roofline
Edit: and yes, I hate it
/r/fuckyourheadlights
Due to height difference, SUV low beams sometimes look like high beam in a sedan. Also LED is prevalent now and some are just bright.
I’m sure it’s SUVs vs my sedan, but I do see people in the oncoming lane turn off and on their high beams as traffic approaches. So, people do use high beams in places that kind of dont need high beams.
But whatever, if it’s safer for them to drive that way, then so be it. But I’m going to drive much slower so I can be safer when someone is shining a maglite up my ass.
Safer for them, more dangerous for everyone else. Not sure how that makes one safer.
My old boss bought his wife a gigantic assault SUV because she kept getting into accidents and he was afraid she would get hurt. I asked him if he was afraid of the people in the other cars and he said ‘not my problem’ so.
It’s both. SUVs/Pickup Trucks will blind you in a Civic. Also if you have one headlight blown you can put on your brights. it’s back to two that way.
I recommend getting your back windshield tinted to 30%. That’s the legal limit and it helps SSSSOOOOOOO much when night driving.
Doesn't help with cars coming at you. Or pedestrians. Or cyclists. Or bikers.
How many of these threads are we going to do?
My new car keeps getting lights flashed at it bc people think I have my high beams on. They’re not oddly bright but the angle seems to be higher than other cars. I feel bad!
Then fix the angle. Headlights are adjustable.
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So, they drive on the left in Japan. Is it possible that your headlights point the wrong way? (For those who don't know, headlights are not symmetrical; they're designed to throw more light towards the side of the road and less toward the middle.)
AceyAceyAcey t1_j112128 wrote
Lots of jerk drivers use extra bright halogens, or drive with high beams, or with fog lights. They’re jerks. Doubly so if they’re doing so in an SUV or truck.