Driving is always a very stressful experience for me and lately it has gotten so much worse
please for the love of god can this country please get any kind of public safety measures passed. literally just stick a railing on somewhere that someone might fall off of. pass some toothless legislation. literally anything please
Afaik there are regs that make those lights illegal and require specific alignment of headlights so they don't blind people, but there's no enforcement, and people constantly misalign the lights with shoddy installs. idk, I hate it, driving is dangerous enough as it is.
It'd be easy as shit to have a pubic initiative drive for free light adjustment. Pigs could do something useful for once and pull these things over for referral to an adjustment center. But no, we can't have reasonable things that improve safety. I learned today that Tennessee apparently doesn't have driver's training, kids just have an adult sign off that they can drive.
I learned today that Tennessee apparently doesn't have driver's training, kids just have an adult sign off that they can drive.
I sure hope the literacy rate of Tennessee is good enough for them to read the road signs...
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Holy FUCK HOW IS IT BELOW 99%?!! WE'RE THE RICHES GODDAMN COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND WE HAVE THIS?!!!!!! I have friends who live there that want us to come visit and it might force me to come out to them because I have to explain 'uhh yeah, I don't want to get arrested for existing'. ..... I JUST NOTICED THIS ISN'T EVEN THE LOWEST RANKED STATE OHHH MYYYY FUCK!!!
It's worse than that. Those percentages add up to over 100% – almost 180% in total. And that's without even counting the innumeracy rate, which isn't counted, apparently. We take numeracy far more seriously in my state.
Can’t be avoided when I leave work after sunset in the winter :(
I hate daylight savings so fucking much it’s such a stupid concept in the first place but is also backwards from how I’d even want it if we have to do it
Why the fuck would you change it so the sun sets earlier in the winter??? Are you insane? If we’re gonna do the clock moving nonsense it should be later in the winter and earlier in the summer to adjust for the daylight. And then I could stop going home from work in the dark.
“Oh man, it sure is getting dark early here in December. Oh I know, let’s make it worse!”
I am once again asking for funding for a giant rocket booster so we can move the hemispheres to create more equitable weather.
Sounds like the only option is vigilante regulation enforcement.
The Batman, except he's the Mothman and is attracted to bright lights (which he destroys with a sledge hammer and a shotgun loaded with rock salt)
California has you do a smog check every other year, I think a safety inspection would be nice too (and make it for the whole country). People who are really dedicated to being assholes will work around it, but most people who just don't realize that they're blinding everyone else will get their headlights angled downward and then never touch them again.
We have the regulation in the Europe.
But high intensity LEDs suck here too. Especially on the freaking SUVs.
Too much blue light, too much light from a small area.
A classic halogen headlights, of course, have disadvantages. But they are more pleasant for the eyes. If only aligned correctly..
I was borrowing a short car and a truck pulled up behind me with it's ultra-bright while lights directly at eye level. Unbidden my mind conjured the image of a man very like me stepping out of the car with a sledge and smashing the truck's headlights.
I drive a tiny vehicle and this shit happens to me all the fucking time. I just want to kneecap every single person that has the suburban assault vehicles for this singular reason alone.
If you have time, slowing to legal minimum usually results them in doing a dangerous overtake.
I can’t die happy until I have caused one of these fuckers to roll their SUV.
If I have someone tailgating me, I’ll usually act like I’m taking a right turn and go into the turning lane. Then they’ll pass and I’ll swing back over into the regular lane (if there’s no one behind them of course)
I just want to kneecap every single person that has the suburban assault vehicles for this singular reason alone.
And them wasting gasoline for vanity and ego makes me want to
Listen, they need that vehicle so they can take their two kids to and from school
And so they can use it 2 times a year to haul slightly more stuff then you'd be easily able to fit into a sedan
I drive a civic in an area full of lifted trucks and oversized SUVs, it’s miserable at night.
Electric side mirror adjusters can sometimes be used to angle to light back into their eyes.
I also think to myself, "Self, if ever I did some crazy cosmetic thing to my car, it would be to have some highly polished chrome panel with a series of electric motors that could adjust the angle to be used when somebody behind me has headlights that are too bright."
The only times where I felt genuine desire to shoot at the driver behind is whenever they drive a truck that blinds me
It's not just that they're horribly, unnecessarily bright--but the drivers never adjust their angle because it's not common knowledge that you're supposed to do that when you get a car. It's right there in the manual. LED headlights even have an attempted safety measure where they have a hard line stop instead of a gradual drop-off, to avoid blinding people--so when they're correctly angled they're... Okay, I guess. Not great, but better. So when it feels like they're beaming directly into your eyeballs, that's because they are.
That, and idiots putting LED headlights into their old cars without switching the housing, which essentially eliminates the safety measures and turns them into million lumen lasers.
LED headlights even have an attempted safety measure where they have a hard line stop instead of a gradual drop-off, to avoid blinding people
Whoever thought this was a sufficient safety feature had only ever driven on a Minecraft superflat map. Even looking past people having them badly aligned, this breaks down if the road has the slightest change in elevation. Oops, that truck ahead of you is actually climbing a 4 degree incline so now instead of being above that hard cutoff the lights are right in your eyes.
They need to be less bright, and more importantly they need to be less blue. There needs to be a very small range of acceptable headlight hues.
people really never clean the insides of their windows.
yea that too, since i'm a little vape goblin i have to do that once every few months cuz the residue is gross.
edit: if you have trouble defrosting your windshield, clean the inside of it
My RETVRN take is we need to go back to the days where there were like 2 types of headlight and it was the whole housing and car manufacturers just had to figure out where to put in one of the two types of standard headlight
Reject modernity, return to tradition
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Also ban cars for most people
Sealed beam headlights are just so much better than what we have now. It's such a pain in the ass to try to change out headlight bulbs in many modern cars, and then the plastic housings start to look like crap from UV after a while. Give me a sealed beam any day!
Oh my god replacing the headlights on a Prius is a fucking nightmare. One of them is easy enough, but one of them requires insane bending of the arm, wrist, and hand and then to put a decent amount of force into twisting it
And also my headlight enclosures are so fucking yellow I really need to do something about that
Yeah that shit sucks. I drive a 90s Japanese economy car and it's pretty much guaranteed that this time of the year, I'm going to have some 6,000+ pound bro-dozer behind me flooding my entire cabin with light on the way home from work. They aren't even modified. That's just how annoyingly big cars have gotten.
modern LED headlights are extremely terrible for everybody else on the road and I hate them so much
PSA: For anyone experience this all the time at night, but especially when it's rainy/wet. it is most likely their dipshit headlights... buuuuut you should also get an eye exam if you've got the opportunity to do so. I know that's extremely out of reach for a lot of folks but if you can, you should.
It's extremely common for halos, streaky/blurry lights, etc. at night to be early or uncaught indicators of eyesight conditions like:
- Astigmatism
- Glaucoma
- Cataracts
- Keratoconus
- Etc.
The good thing is pretty much all of those are extremely treatable and not a big deal especially when caught early. There's also the possibility that it's literally none of that shit, but if it's been more than a year, get your eyes checked anyway. You need to be able to see to aim at fascists.
Again, there's almost a 100% chance it's the headlights and just rain and lights being shit at night, but, as has happened to two of my friends, you can also maybe find out it's your eyes being weird shapes and they fix it real easy and it's literally the difference between not being able to drive at night and being fine but occasionally struggling.
Plus on the off chance it's Glaucoma, you really wanna catch it early.
Driving should be made as unpleasant, stressful, and inconvenient as possible.
Eh, I'd draw the line at blinding surrounding drivers. I was a bicyclist and busser till I was 25 and I got enough empathy to not want to kill anyone with my car.
The only way to guarantee you don't kill anyone with your car is to stop driving. So stop driving.
Cool, guess the bus system will pick up the slack for me. Oh, wait!
Tell hexbears to stop driving their fucking deathboxes and they all turn into
Idk about that. In my country if you can't drive your:
- job prospects suck if you're anywhere that isn't a city centre, most jobs require a full driver's license
- getting food is difficult if you don't have a small grocery shop within walking distance
- public transport is awful even in big cities, that your commute is longer, with not many bus or train times (if they even exist where you live)
- getting around even with a bike sucks because the infrastructure consists of maybe a bikelane, and drivers have homicidal road rage if they see cyclists because they think cyclists are bougie and don't know the road rules, and because they "don't pay taxes for using the road because they don't pay fuel taxes"
- because there's no infrastructure for other forms of transportation, you're very socially isolated as you can't go to events etc. unless you have someone drive you
- and there is a weird one I've found: many people are unwilling to have romantic relationships with people without a license.
There's probably a lot more but yeah these are the key ones I've found
I'm not a cager. I walk and bus when I can. I also help people in my life who can't drive, either due to disabilities like epilepsy, or just life circumstances. Of course, helping people out in shittier circumstances seems to be a bit beyond you, as is the concept of understanding issues with infrastructure. You don't just push the unshittify button in a place as shitty as the US.
P.S. Biking is a bit of an issue in the winter here and people have been known to use the few bike lanes here to pass other drivers at red lights.
You call me a cager, but you really sound like you haven't been outside for a while. I'm sorry that I use my position of privilege to help people when I can.
lol love to ride my ebike 15 miles when it's -20 and blowing snow
I guess all us living in rural US can just go fuck ourselves, oh wait that's just been the default stance of every single motherfucker in governance for a long time now.
Quit being an edgelord, and maybe try actually try touching grass for once.
Yes, rural amerikkkans can in fact go fuck themselves and stop with their persecution complex pity parties. The entire structure of amerikkkan government is designed to give them outsized representation and their opinions are somehow even worse than the amerikkkan average.
It already is for me. My anxiety skyrockets when I drive
I ran into a lot of those today. At a point I just kinda snapped and popped my brights on briefly while waiting for a left turn, just to spite the fucker with a death ray facing me. I wish the public transport here was better. I already should minimize driving at night, but then fuckers with LED lamps come out. In the middle of a rainstorm I'll find it a miracle I don't wind up crashing or accidentally hitting some pedestrian while momentarily blinded.
I fucking hate driving, it's so scary to me. Idk how people can enjoy it, it must be carbrain
I think if you live in a rural area it's not so bad. Going on drives wasn't an uncommon activity for my family to do
i just KNOW banning LED headlights would turn into a stupid culture war too
I have this friend who definitely defines himself by his consumption. One of the things he has wasted money in the last few years was getting expensive and expensive to repair cars. His latest was a truck that broke the first week he got it. It has an incredibly loud exhaust, probably gets 15mpg hwy and he has a 45 mile commute.
I actually just think he’s a bit of a dumb guy.
Then he tells me he wants to swap the headlight bulbs for LEDs and I said to absolutely not do that because of how the housings would scatter the light into the eyes of other drivers. I don’t know if he ever did it but he was really adamant about installing once they arrived in the mail.
Sitting at a stop light in a more rural part of town with little street light coverage and one of these assholes pulls up behind you and your rear view mirrors become DBZ Solar Flares.
Happened to me last night. Sitting in my little human sized car and a fuck in a giant truck with these LEDs at directly head height rolls up behind me. Truly a painful experience
I been awake for 34 hours and the red lights make this look like a shadow monster with glowing eyes shining its flashlight at me
