We need to talk.
We need to talk about your your headlights.
Those bright, super bright, area effect highway weapons--completely unnecessary. You know the ones with the their eleventy-thousand kelvin color temperature, blazing, no, "bathing" everything in their soft x-ray glow, until you hit the gamma-ray high beams. You think they let you see better, but that's only because they've vaporized everything in the beam pattern up to half a mile. They render everything in the mid distance transparent so you can see the trees on the peaks of the mountains in the distance glare garishly neon orange and ultraviolent. You literally can't see over the horizon. Why do you have lights that can be seen from space?
If I'm casting a shadow, a shadow of my own car, in my own headlights, we have a problem. I have a problem. You're the problem. You're a hazard to navigation. You think they make you safer, but are you really safer driving on the road when all the other drivers are blind?
I'm not talking about your bar lamps, your side lights, your Michigan markers, your fog lights, your driving lights, your fuck me? no, fuck you lights, not to mention the Project SETI uplink carrier beam monsters on the roof rack, I don't care if Luxor Hotel was having a sale--it's just too much.
If they were just sanitizing the pavement, even as high as the beltline of my car, it would be ok. But they shine up into my eyes, into my mirrors--Problem. Maybe you're towing your trailer and it tips the back down and the front up. Maybe you just like driving around with your brights on. Maybe you're driving one of those giant trucks to compensate for... well, we all know you have a two-inch penis. Why shine a light on it?
Everything is so bright around you. Is it the lights or that you're just so dim. Kill the lights before you kill someone else.
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I say it to you now
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I cry to you
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
Lose the lights *and* the sunglasses and all will be well.
What are Michigan markers?
The newer GMC and Chevy trucks are by far the worst offenders. I stopped in the road for a too-bright-lights asshole who turned out to be a deputy in a pick-up, who hit the blues walked up and asked me what the problem was. I told him there was an asshole behind me with lights that were waaaay too goddamned bright. He walked back to his truck and drove around me. Won't stand for them (those super-bright-even-on-dim-lights) behind me or in front of me, I'll stop in the road and let them go by. I will sue the life out of the fellow that causes me to run off the road with his bright as fuck lights, cause I'm not going off my side of the road...I just need to figure how to hit a 7,500 plus pound truck and live through it.
Cocksucking bastards, every one of 'em.
Grav, don't be shy, tell us how you really feel....
Jacked up trucks are all offenders. They weren't designed to have the lights that high and there's a good chance they can't be adjusted so the driver can see and not blind you.
The fuckers always seem to add a light bar as well.
I hit the high beams on them so both of us will be blind.
I think that since virtually all new cars today have the automatic headlights, people just ignore the controls. They turn their high beams on one day and don’t realize they have left them on.
Similarly, I see a larger number of cars driving around with lights off than I used to. I assume they are second cars, and the driver is used to the lights turning themselves on, and they don’t notice they are driving the old car. It’s probably only a city thing though.
Basically, people are not paying attention, plus some people are installing extra lights because they are maroons.
Jacked up trucks are all offenders.
People who drive lifted trucks often have other bad habits.
My jeep is lifted. I adjusted my lights a bit. It's only a 2½" lift, but if I accelerate behind you, they do shine up into the rearview mirror.
I also have other bad habits
My jeep is lifted. I adjusted my lights a bit. It's only a 2½" lift, but if I accelerate behind you, they do shine up into the rearview mirror.
I also have other bad habits
Jeeps are not the same thing. I had one, only it wasn't lifted. It got smashed in a horrible car accident. If it was lifted, the lady that rear-ended me would have just slid right under like a door stop. Rough on her, granted, but I wouldn't have had a bent frame.
No, I am specifically talking about pick up trucks. The only purpose for having it lifted is the same as having a "dually". To block people behind you from seeing upcoming hazards.
Now now duallys a great help and safer when you're towing a 20,000 lb gooseneck. Doesn't everyone have one of those? ;)
Old boss of mine had one, because he had a horse trailer. He had a horse trailer, because he had a horse. But I do not believe he had good reason to have a horse.
Horses are pets now, no reason or justifying required. All you need is money, and considerably more than for a dog/cat/bird.
But for one horse a one horse trailer will do, unless your horse like to take dates to the drive in.
And if he/she is into orgies... you're gonna need a bigger rig. :yesnod:
I heard a program on the radio about this and apparently, part of the problem is that there is no limit or definition set regarding brightness.
I seen headlights advertised as off road only but nobody is going to enforce that.
The performance of headlights should have been standardized years ago.
They should be of uniform brightness and height.
They currently vary from excellent to barely adequate.
Honda and Toyota among others should be reasonable for cleaning and clearing the fogged over plastic covers that dim their output.
They are treated like accessories and toys rather than one of the most important safety components.
When I was a teenager, I thought it was cool and smart to blast the guy coming at me with his brights on by doing the same.
Later I figured that at least he could see where he was going and. blinded, would be most likely to hit me.
Eyes will naturally look at the lights; looking down to the right will avoid dazzle and preserve night vision.
I heard a program on the radio about this and apparently, part of the problem is that there is no limit or definition set regarding brightness.
One of the foreign makers, Audi maybe, had literal lasers for headlights. They couldn't sell them in the US with that lighting set-up. I think someone now sells a car here with a laser light set-up.
I'm waiting for the class-action suit against GM.
The 94 Grand Cherokee has notoriously bad headlights. I've driven for days with the brights on and not gotten flashed once.
The headlights, brakes, windshield wipers and radio all get poor marks on the GC.
The 94 Grand Cherokee has notoriously bad headlights. I've driven for days with the brights on and not gotten flashed once.
The headlights, brakes, windshield wipers and radio all get poor marks on the GC.
I had a 96, same problem.
The lights on new cars a dictated by stylists instead of engineers. :(
Thanks, BigV. Does anyone else here use that term? Michigan Markers?
Nope. We just call 'em cab markers, or cab lights. KYDOT may call them clearance lights.
What is this?
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Good guess, narp.
Giant clue:
What thread is this?
Looks like a windshield to me.
Well, yes. There is a windshield in the pic.
Not what I intended to draw your attention to.
I took this picture this morning on my way to work. The light was red when I framed the shot, green when I pressed the button. Other lights figure prominently in the answer to my question.
returning to this thread, inebriated, two months later...
fuck. if. i. know.
I withdraw the question.
HA~!
Upon further inspection, I remember now....
jfc.
it's the shadow of my fucking head on my own fucking sunvisor.
come on people, BigV included.
Look at at that willya? Why should I cast a shadow IN MY OWN CAR because you, asshole, have asshole headlights? NO GOOD REASON!
Here's how bright headlights are these days:
When you use the left turn signal on newer cars, the left headlight automatically turns off, because the headlight is too goddamned bright for oncoming traffic to see the turn signal.
They knew the lights are too damned bright, and yet...
