I know this forum is mostly for politics but does ANYONE ever notice their stupid automobile headlights???
I have very good night vision. I drive a LOT, and prefer to make long trs at night when I can. But over the last several years I have noticed a really annoying trend. Headlights and headlight use has NOT been taught or even mentioned to new drivers, and older drivers have either forgotten about it or just decided to be absolute butt-heads about it.
Bright lights, AKA ‘high beams’ coming up from behind, or from the front. And those stupid FOG LIGHTS!! (Funny, I don’t SEE any fog!!) Normal “low-beam” lights that are brighter than anything which used to be ‘bright’ lights. Those DAMNED ‘blue-white’ or pink coloured lights. NOBODY needs actinic lights to drive at night.
Sheesh, people! Let the people driving toward you AVOID BEING BLINDED! Having someone completely sightless from the glare of your overly-bright lights headed toward you, wiping their eyes and squinting for all their worth, does NOT increase your ‘safety.’
Automotive engineers, THINK ABOUT THE OTHER GUYS ON THE ROAD before you put ever-brighter lamps in those sockets! And make SOME sort of system which lets you AIM THEM CORRECTLY!! Point them DOWN, and to the RIGHT (in ‘drive on the right side of the road’ areas) so the stupid idiots behind the wheel aren’t aiming their busted-ass lights right into the eyes of oncoming traffic!!
Yes, from the above, you can correctly infer that I recently spent some hours behind the wheel of my car, being half-blinded and stunned by overly-bright headlights, mis-aimed headlights, actinic headlights, and just plain high-beam-why-should-I-bother-to-dim-MY-lights? automotive headlamps.
And don’t even get me STARTED on the whack-jobs in semi-tractors with more lumens than the average sports stadium….
