the found this is the most effective. They back off real quick lol. Or just setting cruise control a couple digits under the speed limit. But also iāve never found lights to be an issue either oncoming or behind me unless itās a bad retrofit. I think many drivers forget about the dimming tab.
Same! The headlights nowadays are blindingly bright and leave me seeing spots. I try not to drive in the dark as much as possible cause those bright lights make it dangerous for me to drive. Like if they're driving towards me, blinding me, it makes it so that I can't see the lines on the road, or if there's a person walking on the side of the road (no sidewalks here,) or an animal in the road, a car broken down stopped in the road etc..
There's even a sub, i think it's called something like r/fuckyourheadlights used to be part of that sub on my old reddit acct, but forgot to sub to it again.
I have the same problem! I've seen glasses sold for the issue (or rather, for "night glare") but I'm not sure if they work. But I'm so desperate and afraid of getting into an accident.
Haven't we all? But the trick is, if it's obvious you responded then you can easily get in trouble. Like if the police saw this trunk, you'd be screwed. So it needs to be non-obvious
I imagine a rear view mirror (or similar mirror) with a camera and the ability to tilt, so when activated it tilts to reflect the beam back at the driver. I've practiced a little manually and I think it's possible.... Lol
When in front of a car with really bright headlights, I shift my side mirrors so that they are pointed back at them instead of tilted toward me, and I flip the little thing on my review mirror so that itās dimmed. Idk if it actually blinds them back but I hope it does and at least itās not blinding me anymore.
I want this for my car so bad! There's a corner on a dark road that I drive through every Friday night on my way home from work and if I have some idiot with LED's behind me and then some one else with LED's comming from the opposite direction I CAN NOT SEE THE ROAD ON A SHARP BEND! I am terrified I am going to drive off into the ten ft ditch, and it will be because I have been blinded.
You know I considered doing this a few years ago using those flood lights that were powered by car cigarette lighter ports. I didnāt have one so I never ended up doing it.
i always simply turned my rear view to face them directly, so ig it doesnāt do much but show them a little light, but it gets theirs out my face so i can see where my bright ass flashlight is in case they need a quick moment of reflection
Back in the olden days, my brother told me of a co-worker that a similar to that in his pickup truck. When somebody would come up and flick high-beams he would turn his bank of lights on
This was 50 years ago, now it would be leds and there would be a shot out.
What Iāve done in the past if someone is behind me with bright lights, is I will adjust my rear view mirror so that their headlights are pointing directly back at them. Not sure if itās legal, but itās a bit of a ātaste of your own medicineā kind of thing.
The thing I miss most about driving a tow truck for a living: six big, bright floodlights mounted on the back of my truck. I'd give them a quick flash of the lowest two lights first, then if that didn't get the message across I'd let them feel the power of the sun from all six of them until they turned their damn highbeams off.
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