Are people in this area just dumb or oblivious wrt driving with high beams on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Improvements in technology might make them seem like high beams when they're not. Lots of fossil anger here.

This. I just got a new car a few weeks ago and the lights are SO much brighter than my 2013 car. They are so much brighter that I actually pulled out the owner's manual one night in a parking lot because I thought for sure I had someone switched on high beams without realizing it, but nope, those were just my normal headlights.

I honestly don't know how I was driving safely with those 2013 dim-ass lights after experiencing these babies.

Also, now I realize that probably 90% of the people I accused of blinding me with high beams on a two lane road were actually just people with newer cars than me at the time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if it's a very important person, or at least someone who thinks they are? We have a lot of those in DC.

If they are that important than they don't want to get hit by some driver that can't see because they are blinded by ms. Or mr. super important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Improvements in technology might make them seem like high beams when they're not. Lots of fossil anger here.

This. I just got a new car a few weeks ago and the lights are SO much brighter than my 2013 car. They are so much brighter that I actually pulled out the owner's manual one night in a parking lot because I thought for sure I had someone switched on high beams without realizing it, but nope, those were just my normal headlights.

I honestly don't know how I was driving safely with those 2013 dim-ass lights after experiencing these babies.

Also, now I realize that probably 90% of the people I accused of blinding me with high beams on a two lane road were actually just people with newer cars than me at the time!

Can they be replaced with something that is safer?

[Anonymous]

Do you have to get a new vehicle with those super bright high beam type headlights or it is possible to choose another option?

[Anonymous]

Another reason why you may think someone's high beams are on when they aren't: Because their front end is higher than their rear, so their headlights (on low beam) shine straight ahead instead of pointing slightly downward. This often happens at intersections. I read this in Popular Science (or was it Popular Mechanics) sometime in the 1960's.

[Anonymous]

I had an SUV that people would always flash at me as if my high beams were on. They absolutely weren’t. It was a combo of brighter lights and the placement in a taller vehicle. Changing the headlight to dimmer bulbs didn’t really help.

I don’t think that many people are possibly driving around with high beams on accidentally.

[Anonymous]

Op, they are adaptive headlights. Automatic high beams; they use a camera to detect oncoming headlights and sometimes they take a second to switch off . Surely you have heard of this, given your self-determined expertise on the topic.

[Anonymous]

If your fancy headlights are blinding oncoming traffic, that's not safer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I accidentally knock it on and don’t notice. I’m sure the same is true of others.

Gee, if only there was SOME way of knowing your high beams were on… like, I dunno, some kind of indicator light on the dashboard. Maybe like right near the speedometer? And make it stand out.. give it a special color or something- maybe blue?

Maybe one day the technology for this might be possible… one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite bright lights in my face are from that super bright bar rednecks put under the grill of their pickup trucks and leave on all the time. Why isn't that thing illegal?

Yes, those things are a scourge. They should be banned from even being able to be sold, without question. They definitely illegal. The intensity of the lights is absurd and definitely illegal.

I have one of these, except it’s on the back of the truck, not the front. It’s for lighting up boat ramps so I can see to back the trailer into the water at night.

It’s also really fantastic for discouraging tailgaters who insist on driving 6 feet from my rear bumper at 75mph. One flick of the switch and their pupils contract to pinhead-size in milliseconds. No more tailgating after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Improvements in technology might make them seem like high beams when they're not. Lots of fossil anger here.[/quote

This. Like LED lighting.

Yep. People flash their lights at you as if you have the high beams on. I think it’s especially bright in SUVs because of the higher level.

Facts. My 2022 SUV headlights are LED, folks keep flashing me because they probably think I have on the my high beams but I don’t. They also auto adjust based on lighting as pp said upthread.

[Anonymous]

I see much more of the opposite problem -- people driving with NO lights on, even at dusk and at night, in the rain, dark colored cars, just incredibly hard to see. Drives me nuts.

On a related note, more and more drivers seem to think stop signs are optional now. Drivers around here are just terrible.

[Anonymous]

I also have a car with LED lights. They are much brighter than any previous car I have had. People (probably the OP) flash their lights at me, so then I flash my brights back to them to let them know what my brights look light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also have a car with LED lights. They are much brighter than any previous car I have had. People (probably the OP) flash their lights at me, so then I flash my brights back to them to let them know what my brights look light.

look like, not look light.

[Anonymous]

I think the new lights on cars are extra bright. I thought people had on high beams tok. I don't know how those bright lights can be legal.