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love when these freaks drive up my asshole at night and their lights reflecting from my rearview mirror light up the entire inside of my car and leave spots in my eyes. very cool.
When you let an industry regulate itself, you end up with the 737-MAX and a reassurance that existing 737 pilots don’t need further training to fly it…
Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn’t the better interim solution.
While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.
It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.
Modern headlights are blinding to anyone not in the vehicle using them. Oncoming headlights if you’re in anything shorter than whatever is producing them makes it near-impossible to see the road.
I think they sell special glasses you can wear at night that help with this.
Cheap yellow safety glasses (PC) like 3M, Honeywell, your local brand, etc.
If you want to go crazy, go to optic saloon.
Yeah, I don’t really like sitting behind them either. We just got a new car and while it isn’t that tall, the lights are just so fucking bright it’s unreal. I find it harder to see at night, at least beyond the zone of my headlights, because it’s so bright my eyes don’t adjust as much. In addition every time hit a bump or crest a hill people act like I’m high-beaming them. I get the frustration dude, but they’re already over-adjusted down, what else am I supposed to do?
Mistaking the bump for flashing high beams is the most common and serious problem for me. I keep thinking people are trying to get my attention with their lights. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled over to make sure I didn’t run over some kind of debris I didn’t notice or check my tires or signals just to realize it was probably just their lights. Flashes and signals are for communication on the roadway. If everyone’s lights are flashing any time there’s a divot or crest in the road, we can’t effectively signal to each other.
I’ve also noticed that this level of brightness is absolutely shit in fog and stormy weather. Nobody can see fuck all.
I wish we didn’t have this problem to begin with and would greatly prefer to bike or bus to avoid this altogether, but since I moved out of the city, that is not a viable option.
biking isn’t a solution :/ we’re constantly blinded by the oncoming traffic.
Even walking in the city at night became painful for eyes. You’re approaching an intersection and waiting behind the traffic lights are a dozen spots straight into your eyes
Lol yeah I rarely biked past sunset, tbh and used public transit quite a bit after dark, so that makes sense. Still think the less cars, the better.
Living in a rural area and working nights it’s fucking brutal. Every lifted pickup comes around the bend and I literally can’t see for 10 to 15 seconds.
