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ReasonableLiving5958 t1_j43e1lz wrote

I drive a semi truck 12 hours a day. 99% of people lower their high beams.

A lot of the people who complain about people not turning off their high beams just genuinely don't realize that most of the time the other drivers high beams are OFF. They are just more sensitive to the light or do not realize that some headlights are brighter or appear to be high beams but are not.

PS. Stop flashing your high beams at people that you think have their high beams on. As a semi truck driver that has brighter than normal headlights for safety guideline reasons, people do this a lot and it's incredibly distracting and dangerous. It's more distracting and dangerous than people who just leave their high beams on.

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Faerhun t1_j43puyg wrote

Semis are rarely the problem for me, it's douche nozzles in their raised truck with the brightest fucking lights they can find. Bonus points if they added a light bar up front.

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vtddy t1_j43g1es wrote

Your lights aren't any brighter than normal headlights. I drive a truck also. There are no safety guidelines that allow you to have brighter lights. There aren't any guidelines for anyone. It's a free for all. If they sell it you can buy it and install it. Only time they can do anything is if the lights you installed aren't DOT compliant.

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Harmacc t1_j45ufs5 wrote

I also drive a big truck for a living and I’ll always flash at those super bring UFO custom light trucks. It’s bullshit. And the aftermarket headlights in a plow truck almost had me off the road yesterday.

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kraysys t1_j43mdug wrote

I will never stop flashing my high beams at those with high beams on (when it’s not just bright LEDs or higher-off-the-road lights or whatever), the selfishness is infuriating.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j43gewc wrote

This right here. I don't flash people about high-beams, but for the longest time, I thought ever person following me was shooting their high-beams at me.

Turns out, my eyes were just sensitive to it.

I wasn't mad at them, but it's a thing that I needed to fix, it wasn't other people, it was me.

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RainTreeParadox t1_j44divt wrote

It's not more dangerous than if the high beams are so bright you literally can not see though.

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ResponsibleExcuse727 OP t1_j43gxv5 wrote

Wish we drove similar routes. Can confirm on an hour drive I was high beamed 6 times when I only encountered probably 20 cars. They are not low beams because they need to be reminded to turn them off and they do as they are 20ft away. I believe it’s a misunderstanding of when to turn them off. I do know what you’re saying and I know the newer cars are much brighter, probably brighter than my highs. I also drive a newer car at times. Thank you for what you do I don’t understand how you guys put up with drivers

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meinblown t1_j43thv6 wrote

Just for a reference, a lot of new cars have auto high/low beams and they are hyperactive on a good day. So it ends up looking like I am flashing people when it is just the auto beams doing it.

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FinalSagan t1_j46bac5 wrote

So you still leave the auto function on even though you’re flashing people? I had an ex with the auto high beams in their car and she thought it was funny that it’d randomly blind people and didn’t give a shit.

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meinblown t1_j46hcdw wrote

Good job assuming what I did or did not do. I will just leave it up to your imagination as to what some random person on reddit is like.

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FinalSagan t1_j46hkz9 wrote

I didn’t assume anything, I asked a question and followed it up with an anecdote.

Whether you’re flashing people manually or your car is doing it, it’s still rude and unsafe.

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