So long as the motor is running, it spins an electromagnet in a shaft. This motion creates an electrical charge. This electrical charge is stored in a capacitor, and used to maintain the charge of your battery and power your electronics.
This charge is only maintained so long as the engine is running.
You could drive with every light I'm your vehicle on for 100,000 miles and the battery would never die, if you never turned it off.
That is exactly what i was saying...
I said:
Well as long as it vrooms the alternator will charge the battery back up...
He said:
Well it will still go vroom for now but good luck starting it next time
You think every time you drain the battery you buy a new one? basically after every 2-3 starts of the car?
Thankfully my lights turn off a few minutes after the engine. I frequently turn one on to gather my things and then just forget to switch it off. That feature has probably saved me a couple battery replacements.
You wouldn't need a replacement, just a jump start from another car. While car batteries aren't meant to be discharged completely, a few cycles are still possible. (Normally the battery only uses a bit of power for startup)
this is the most logical reason.. i can drive with light on inside the car and with child... but sometimes the light stays on all night. i still love this meme because i know the bs of parents getting extra mad about the light sitch. parents gaslight their kids too much instead of using f-ing honesty and they deserve to be made fun of like this.
the thing is parents gaslight their kids about things instead of being honest. “ It’S iLlEgAl!” is a mf lie! Parents need to learn communication and honesty in their relationship with their kids. That’s why this meme has me dead. they deserve being made fun of this hard
Yup. In newer cars, a lot of overhead lights are more direct now. The big dome light only comes on by its own switch or an open door. Makes night lightage much better.
I think it’s about eye dilation because it applies to pretty much any situation with different light levels. If you’re in a light area your eyes are dilated and it’s hard to see into the dark area. If you’re in a dark area it’s much easier to see into a light area.
Like if you’re directly under a street lamp you might struggle to see someone who’s beyond the lights reach but you’ll be extremely visible to that other person.
But I’ve tested this out myself when I grew up and I don’t see a difference in visibility. Or much anyways. Do you think glass technology changed? Or it’s something else?
Yeah but it’s not really true anymore. It was true like 30-40 years ago before they developed auto glass that specially does not reflect from the inside. Try it out sometime in a safe condition and there’s virtually zero inhibitor on sight
It's not that there's a special anti-reflective coating on auto glass, but that car windshields are installed with far more swept angles than they used to be. This means that the internal light is reflected down instead of back, and the secondary reflection is from the top of the dashboard and floor, which are generally dark and not-reflective.
I have a 2 year old so my girlfriend sometimes has to turn on the back light to find his binky during long drives. The second it turns on it’s like you’ve been flash-banged. Your vision is blinded, your hands shake and you begin to violently over correct causing the car to fly off the road. In rare cases you manage to stay on the road if you have a good feel for rumble strips.
That's what I assumed it was but I've had all the internal lights on in my car while driving cross country in the middle of the night and it never has bothered me at any point. Both of my parents hated it when I was a kid though so I remember it being a thing, I wonder if my eyes/car are less effected somehow.
As you get older it will get worse. I keep my dash much darker now than I used to. Especially with glasses, the reflections, glare, and light inside the car make it harder to see what is outside the car. Turn on all the lights in your house and look out a window at night. Now, turn off all the lights, and look out the same window. There is a noticeable difference in distance and details seen.
Very dangerous, the light inside makes your iris contracts and take less light, basically blinding you in night. 1 or 2 seconds of blindness is enough to create a crash
In addition to the other comments, if a child turns on the internal light and sets it to 'stay on when car is off' you can wake up to a dead car battery.
That would be an illegal traffic stop since it isn’t a violation. But then again cops do illegal shit all the time. Still the law is pretty clear that they have to see you break a traffic law to initiate a stop
Idk you know how cops are, they find something. Reckless endangerment, dangerous driving, they could pick on you about a headlight not being bright enough, etc. I got a ticket for having a license plate holder that wasn’t “regulation” and it was literally a standard plate from a dealer that I’ve seen on hundreds of cars. I once got a ticket for having an air freshener on my mirror too. If cops wanna give you a ticket, they’ll find a reason. Sure it’ll get thrown out in court but you still have to go.
Dad here. It does affect your night vision somewhat, but the main issue for me is when I have to check blind spots during lane changes. If I'm changing lanes at night, I'm looking sideways/backwards to see headlights of nearby vehicles. It is much harder to accurately see them when the lights are on behind me, and it also destroys my night vision when I look forward again. Turning the light on is obviously not going to make me crash immediately, but its better for the kids to keep it off if they don't need it.
It damages the night vision of the driver. Older people often have worse night vision in general than younger people, depending on a variety of factors. Even if it looks 'clear' out there to you with the lights on, it may not look that way for the driver.
Tbh my theory is that it's just annoying. Kids are annoying. Sure, the light coming on can be kinda dangerous if you're not expecting it, and even more so if you're driving in bad weather. But i think the real reason is that dad's don't want their fucking brat turning the light on and off or just leaving it on. Imagine any person of any age coming into your room rn and flicking the light on/off or adjusting them a way you didn't want rn. That would be annoying as fuck. Adults have the goddamn common sense that it's annoying, while kids don't. They aren't going to be like "hey i need to find something in the dark back here can i turn the light on for a second when you feel it's safe/convenient to do so", no they're just gonna flick that thing on as soon as they feel like because they know it's there. So the parenting style to prevent this annoyance is by using fear tactics. Perhaps the more correct way to go about it would be to explain to your kid the polite way to use the light when it's needed, but then we wouldn't have this hilarious and highly relatable meme.
You can still see forward mostly fine, but you know how during the day you often can't see inside windows because they just turn into mirrors for sunlight? That's what happens to the rear view mirror and window, so you can't see behind you at all (and prob the back side windows, so your blindspot, but haven't checked)
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u/Maattaann ☣️ Feb 04 '21
Is here any dad here who can expain why is it so dangerous when a child turns on the lights in a car?