especially motorcycles – I can see you, no need to blind me!
Not the high beams I was after.
First one has cartoonist omitted.
I have no problem at all, because I’m mostly above them !!!
We don’t drive much at night here, too many drunk, drugged, and distracted phucks.
Just another problem on the roads these days because of a lack of common courtesy. That applies to the public in general.
F4UCorsair shined a light on it. We have a big problem with property rights in this country.
Running stop signs and red lights, no turn signals, hi-beams always on, TEXTING while driving 40 mph and swerving like a drunk. Tell me why I can’t run these assholes off the road and shoot them for good measure?
You have to be careful, though. Years ago I was driving down the highway and became irritated at a car coming toward me because he wouldn’t switch to low beams, so I flashed my high beams at him to let him know it.
So then he turned his high beams on.
I think I still have a blind spot on one of my retinas to this day.
🙂
“I wear my sunglasses at night …”
izlamo delenda est …
Vietvet,
I had a similar experience. But he turned on both his high beams and his running lights. State Trooper – boy was he pissed.
izlamo delenda est …
The problem is goofs who modify halogen housings to accept HID elements. Halogen and HID work differently, halogens are meant to disperse light and HIDs are meant to direct light. Then there’s the goofs who think a purple colored 7000k HID give them more usable light and look cool. OEMs use 4700k for a reason, adding color to the spectrum DECREASES light output, the blue halo color is an effect of the fresnel lens used for proper HIDs. Putting a 7000k HID bulb or LED in a halogen housing blinds oncoming drivers, because halogen housing cannot focus the HID/LED element.
My typical response when I see one of these goofs coming at me. Hit the brights and leave them on!
Reboot
I was stationed in Guam in the late 60s. (typhoon tracker)One of our guys was shot in a drive by in Agana. Another one of our guys was getting a spare tire out the trunk of his car when he was hit from behind by a drunk driver. both men survived. Drugs, alcohol and violence was a problem back then too. Sounds like things haven’t changed much. If at all.
I cannot impress upon people enough how fatiguing it is to deal with drivers who think high beams all the way are the way to go every time. I don’t know how many vehicles I would cross paths with, but as the night driver, it was a pretty high number. I used to fantasize about jacklighting in defense.
They used to always adjust your headlights during vehicle inspection. I guess cars today are just too damn perfect.
@F4UCorsair, that is due to the size of the original pic. If it’s not the correct dimensions, the smaller pic on the main page gets lopped off. It happened to lop off at the top and bottom (where the cartoonist’s name is). I’ve had that happen to one of my critter posts. Not intentional.
I have a new car that has bright running lights and am constantly being flashed by people who think my brights are on so almost everyday I’m doing the quick “this is what my brights look like” blip.
The high beams aren’t as much a nuisance as people driving with their damn fog lights on when there is NO fog! What the hell!
Hi-Beams used to be to signal oncoming traffic (a quick on then off), signal when an oncoming car has their light off (or turn yours off and on, I carry a flashlight when walking my dog for this purpose, well, and others) or driving down country or backroads that aren’t well lit and you’d always step them down on the approach of anothe car. These days in the city they seem to have them on all the time which plays merry hell when you’re walking your dog at midnight. You get blinded by these idiots as they race down a well lite suburban street. Then again, maybe the people that build cars figured that doubling or tripling the output of the lights was a good idea because of all those pesky moose and bears in downtown Toronto.
Worse are the a-holes who come up BEHIND you with their brights on, then dog you for 10 miles. After this happened multiple times on a particular road, I figured out how to exactly adjust my mirrors to reflect their headlights back at them. It’s amazing how quickly people dim their headlights when three mirrors give them back what they’re giving to me.
especially motorcycles – I can see you, no need to blind me!
Not the high beams I was after.
First one has cartoonist omitted.
I have no problem at all, because I’m mostly above them !!!
We don’t drive much at night here, too many drunk, drugged, and distracted phucks.
Just another problem on the roads these days because of a lack of common courtesy. That applies to the public in general.
F4UCorsair shined a light on it. We have a big problem with property rights in this country.
Running stop signs and red lights, no turn signals, hi-beams always on, TEXTING while driving 40 mph and swerving like a drunk. Tell me why I can’t run these assholes off the road and shoot them for good measure?
You have to be careful, though. Years ago I was driving down the highway and became irritated at a car coming toward me because he wouldn’t switch to low beams, so I flashed my high beams at him to let him know it.
So then he turned his high beams on.
I think I still have a blind spot on one of my retinas to this day.
🙂
“I wear my sunglasses at night …”
izlamo delenda est …
Vietvet,
I had a similar experience. But he turned on both his high beams and his running lights. State Trooper – boy was he pissed.
izlamo delenda est …
The problem is goofs who modify halogen housings to accept HID elements. Halogen and HID work differently, halogens are meant to disperse light and HIDs are meant to direct light. Then there’s the goofs who think a purple colored 7000k HID give them more usable light and look cool. OEMs use 4700k for a reason, adding color to the spectrum DECREASES light output, the blue halo color is an effect of the fresnel lens used for proper HIDs. Putting a 7000k HID bulb or LED in a halogen housing blinds oncoming drivers, because halogen housing cannot focus the HID/LED element.
My typical response when I see one of these goofs coming at me. Hit the brights and leave them on!
Reboot
I was stationed in Guam in the late 60s. (typhoon tracker)One of our guys was shot in a drive by in Agana. Another one of our guys was getting a spare tire out the trunk of his car when he was hit from behind by a drunk driver. both men survived. Drugs, alcohol and violence was a problem back then too. Sounds like things haven’t changed much. If at all.
I cannot impress upon people enough how fatiguing it is to deal with drivers who think high beams all the way are the way to go every time. I don’t know how many vehicles I would cross paths with, but as the night driver, it was a pretty high number. I used to fantasize about jacklighting in defense.
They used to always adjust your headlights during vehicle inspection. I guess cars today are just too damn perfect.
@F4UCorsair, that is due to the size of the original pic. If it’s not the correct dimensions, the smaller pic on the main page gets lopped off. It happened to lop off at the top and bottom (where the cartoonist’s name is). I’ve had that happen to one of my critter posts. Not intentional.
I have a new car that has bright running lights and am constantly being flashed by people who think my brights are on so almost everyday I’m doing the quick “this is what my brights look like” blip.
The high beams aren’t as much a nuisance as people driving with their damn fog lights on when there is NO fog! What the hell!
Hi-Beams used to be to signal oncoming traffic (a quick on then off), signal when an oncoming car has their light off (or turn yours off and on, I carry a flashlight when walking my dog for this purpose, well, and others) or driving down country or backroads that aren’t well lit and you’d always step them down on the approach of anothe car. These days in the city they seem to have them on all the time which plays merry hell when you’re walking your dog at midnight. You get blinded by these idiots as they race down a well lite suburban street. Then again, maybe the people that build cars figured that doubling or tripling the output of the lights was a good idea because of all those pesky moose and bears in downtown Toronto.
Worse are the a-holes who come up BEHIND you with their brights on, then dog you for 10 miles. After this happened multiple times on a particular road, I figured out how to exactly adjust my mirrors to reflect their headlights back at them. It’s amazing how quickly people dim their headlights when three mirrors give them back what they’re giving to me.
I have to get one.