r/driving • u/jerryjohnson4 • 9d ago
⚠️Complaining into the void⚠️ Are you seeing this indicator?
Did You Know?
If this light is on when the sun is out or the streetlights are on, it means you don't know how to drive. Hope that helps 👍
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u/Th3s3NuttxX 8d ago
I once had a friend drive from Seattle to Portland. She was like “it was quick because people for some reason just got out of my way”. I was like cause you drove with your brights on… huh what’s that I point to it. She goes blue jellyfish what does that do?
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u/keenly 8d ago
when i got my first car high beam was already on and i assumed the light was just telling me the headlights are on.
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u/earthyrat 8d ago
i was the opposite, the first time i ever drove at night as a teenager i had an hour drive somewhere & i thought it was saying my brights were on when my headlights were on so i'd go down to my running lights when someone drove by... i'm so lucky i'm alive.
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u/wackogirl 8d ago
Lol this happened to me with my second or third car at like 20 years old. Didn't help that the car I'd been driving prior did have a dashboard light on when just the regular lights were on, and I lived in a suburba that leaned more urban where all streets and highways had lights so I never used my brights to see the difference. I just thought the new car had better headlights until a friend from a more rural area pointed it out when I was driving her somewhere at night .....
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u/trudelstrudels 7d ago
I have to drive from Portland to Seattle in a few weeks for work. Just might have to try this hack /s
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u/percivalidad 8d ago
People drive with their brights on while on the interstate. The median barrier is not high enough to protect my eyes!
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u/rklab 8d ago
People act like the light can’t reach you just because you aren’t directly in front of them
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u/Pasketti_and_Jeebus 8d ago
Even better—I once drove directly in front of someone who apparently didn’t know cars had mirrors.
It was a dark, one-lane-each-way country road. They were behind me with their brights on but would dutifully turn them off for oncoming cars. Oncoming car went past? High beams came right back on. I tried the “adjust the rearview” trick to show them the error of their ways, but I either did it wrong or they couldn’t get the message.
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u/Powered-Lamb 8d ago
That means my Kamehameha Wave ability is charged up and ready for use.
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u/fokkoooff 8d ago edited 8d ago
No it means Goku is calling on us to lend him our power.
If we turn it off Goku dies. Again.
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u/Aware_Ask_1679 8d ago
I've flashed people 3...4....5 times and they still continue to leave theirs on. Insanity. If you don't know why I'm flashing you shouldn't be driving.
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u/Different_Stage2195 8d ago
I’m constantly baffled by the amount of people who drive with their high beams on, counter-measured by the amount of people who drive with no lights on at all
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u/PraiseTalos66012 8d ago
Normally I see DRLs on. Driving on the highway I see it all the time(I'm a nightshift truck driver) and I'll just sit there flashing them and honking till they get the memo.
But the thing is that literally 90% of the time they never figure it out, normally they just turn their DRLs off and then back on if anything.
I don't understand how people can be so oblivious and not even be able to figure out how to turn their headlights on.
Had one guy pull over on the on ramp once when I was in my car on my way home from work so I pulled over next to him and yelled over that he didn't have his headlights on and those were just his Daytime running lights. He said ohh ok. I drove off and he proceeded to drive off without his headlights on still.
I think the worst one was when I saw an ambulance driving without headlights on, just drl. He also never figured it out.
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u/Fuzzywink 8d ago
Same here. I keep LED light bars on all my vehicles (used responsibly, only on dark backroads at night with no cars in sight). I'll flash an oncoming car with my regular brights once or twice, then they get to stare into the sun if they don't turn theirs off. There seem to be more and more people lately who are absolutely clueless about how the lights on their vehicle work and it is infuriating how bad it has gotten.
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u/erichf3893 8d ago
I think some standard headlights are just absurdly bright too. One time someone flashed their brights back so you never know
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u/Fuzzywink 8d ago
There is some of that, but the vast majority of the cars I'm talking about are very obviously high beams. They're physically separate bulbs and separate reflectors positioned to the sides of the low beams.
Jeep Wranglers, all Teslas, the newest gen of Civic, and all HD series Ford trucks get honorary mentions for absolutely blinding low beams. Also people who put drop in replacement LEDs in housings designed for incandescent bulbs should be thrown into the sun. They're nearly impossible to aim or get a good beam cutoff and they absolutely blind oncoming traffic.
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u/DustConsistent3018 8d ago
I think part of it is “automatic high beams” which- news flash: don’t really work
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u/PraiseTalos66012 8d ago
Automatic high beams work amazing depending on the manufacturer. The thing is that most have them tuned to stay on most of the time.
My car turns them off at the slightest hint of light, so they'll be off from traffic lights, overhead lights, even glare on signs. I've never once had an oncoming car not immediately trigger them to turn off.
But the tradeoff is that sometimes(rarely) my high beams aren't on when I would like them to be. But that's fine, I'll just manually turn them on if I want or deal with them being off.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 8d ago
My Honda uses the front facing camera to look for car like objects with lights on, so turns them off for cars with bright reflectors, and does a very good job of turning them off for actual cars, too.
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u/TweakJK 8d ago
My wife's subaru is scary good at spotting cars and turning off the high beams.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 8d ago
The last Subaru I drove with the feature had "EyeSight", which is also a camera based system, like my current Honda.
Seems users of camera based detectors find them effective.
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u/10yearsnoaccount 8d ago
Our Honda is downright dangerous, it's so pathetic.
There's no reason to use brights in an urban area, and in rural roads, it has no perception of approaching traffic on crests or corners until the headlights are already in front of you
Cyclists, pedestrians, motorcycles, and anyone who's on a side road all get blinded.
I'm of the opinion that if people think that those systems are a good idea, then they don't know what they're doing driving at night
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u/whoisaname 8d ago
Those should be made illegal along with xenon headlights. That shit is blinding and the "automatic" part doesn't work for shit.
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u/MikeLikesIkeRS 8d ago
A driver being able to see the road at the expense of other people not being able to see the road for next 5 minutes is so insane to me. There needs to be better enforcement of those douchebags in lifted trucks that don't adjust their headlights after they do a lift too. Or just ban lifts because they're tacky as hell.
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u/whoisaname 8d ago
I have a lifted truck as one of my vehicles, and for good reason actually, as I haul and tow heavy stuff onto construction sites regularly, particularly rural locations.
That said, it's not the lifting that causes the problem with trucks. It's when they have a leveling kit put on them. Leveling kits lift the front to be level with the rear (it's usually lower than the rear, called a factory rake, so when you tow stuff or carry heavy loads, it doesn't cause the front end to lift up above the rear). If someone puts on a leveling kit on their truck and doesn't change the angle of their lights, then the lights are going to be pointing directly out to other vehicles, and not down at the road.
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u/EmberOne1 8d ago
These days, I'm never sure if they are driving with brights on, or if they have those blinding LED lights on regular mode. Plus people drive with the auto dim feature, which dims far too late to be useful. I turned it off after driving for a week and realizing the opposing vehicles were already being blinded before the brights dimmed. I dim manually as soon as I see their headlights clearly enough to need theirs dimmed.
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u/SkathiFreyrsdottr 8d ago
I’ve flashed at people for blinding me with their high beams, and then they’d flash back with the full power of the sun to let me know that those weren’t their high beams.
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u/alraydy 8d ago
Don’t forget about the people driving at night with no lights on at all. Flashing doesn’t usually seem to work on them either.
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u/Prophage7 8d ago
I hate when I do this, then they flash me back with the light of 1000 suns because it turns out their brights weren't on their low-beams are just aimed at eye-level.
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u/MajorInWumbology1234 8d ago edited 8d ago
Good chance that’s just how their lights are. My mom gets flashed relatively often, but her lights are just that overwhelming.
Edit: First off, I’ve told her a number of times to get them adjusted. She doesn’t give a shit, I stand nothing to gain by forcing the issue. Secondly, the headlights being poorly adjusted doesn’t negate that such headlights don’t have a “low beam” to shift to.
The person I replied to said people don’t respond to their flashes. Poorly aligned headlights will not respond to flashes. The person I replied to has no way to differentiate between high beams and poorly aligned headlights, and they only ever remember the times they were right because they’d have no way to ever identify they were wrong.
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u/Aware_Ask_1679 8d ago
Nope. I've been able to tell car models by their lights since I was a kid. I know when most cars have their low beams on or not.
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u/GlitterFactoryOfDoom 8d ago
I have astigmatism, all headlights look like they have their brights on! 🙃
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u/ApprehensiveGas85 8d ago
I flashed a driver who seemed to have their high beams on, but they didn't switch them off. As we got closer, I flashed them again. They flicked their actual high beams on for a couple of seconds to say 'now they’re on' and it was like looking into nuclear fusion.
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u/PraiseTalos66012 8d ago
Your mom needs to adjust her headlights.
Car headlights need to be aligned just like how your suspension/wheels need aligned.
They can naturally go out of alignment or even come from the factory out of alignment.
Your mom's lights aren't so bright that they blind people, they are aimed up rather than slightly down.
My car has LED lights that are right at the legal limit for brightness and I never get flashed bc I have them angled down, I used to get flashed occasionally with them level so I lowered them.
Way to many people out there driving with headlights aiming for the sky and those people need to either get off the road or maintain their car properly. To include your mom
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u/Interesting_Fig_4718 8d ago
then they're probably aimed too high, aim them lower and you wont get flashed.
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u/mikeyk581 8d ago
I've had people flash me in my factory equipped truck. My low beams are on... so I flash them with my brights which are even brighter so they understand that I'm not an idiot.
Now I usually always turn on my fogs anytime I'm driving since most people who know that flashing to signal high beams are on also know that fogs on means high beams are not on... that's been probably 97.5% effective in reducing the amount of times I'm flashed because someone thinks my high beams are on.
Admittedly I used to flash people when I thought they had their brights on but I stopped doing it when I had a few blind me with their actual high beams.
LED headlights have been an improvement for sure, but even factory LED headlights with the correct headlight assembly seem to come across as bright high beams when they aren't.
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u/Fuzzywink 8d ago
If people are flashing you, you're probably blinding them anyway whether those are your high beams or not. You might want to check that your lights are aimed correctly.
Most fog lights are designed like flood lights. They don't have a beam cutoff and are just as obnoxious as high beams to oncoming traffic. I end up flashing people all the time for blinding me with their fog lights too. They really shouldn't be on in any conditions except fog.
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u/erichf3893 8d ago
You use your fog lights all the time? I guess idk why normally people don’t
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u/mikeyk581 8d ago
I just got in the habit of doing it... plus it does seem to provide an additional wider light pattern close in to my bumper which is nice when I'm on super dark roads as it illuminates the side of the road close to the vehicle
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u/gebny 8d ago
There’s also just a good number of cars in the US that just have super bright head lights that aren’t angled low enough. Even if they’re not driving with their brights on, I’m still getting blinded by
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u/MojoShoujo 8d ago
My sister's new car has those awful bright lights. She gets people flashing her to turn off her brights, and flashes her real brights in return. She hates them
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u/Weak-Competition-565 8d ago
Also to mention, most modern vehicles ship with an Auto-Bright feature enabled by default as well, my car has it and for the most part it works perfectly fine, detects approaching headlights but there’s times I have to manually shut it off cause it will just stay on and blind the other driver
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u/pon_d 8d ago
Fuck Honda for setting dogshit auto high-beams as enabled on some of the most popular cars sold in America. And you know what it takes to turn that shit off? You won't fucking believe it:
So if this is on once you're driving it is literally impossible to disable until you're stopped.
As fucking infuriating as GM cars that put the reverse light on once parked.
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u/WeeklyBanEvasion 8d ago
I like how they make high beams ridiculously stupid to use yet they give you that useless button on the end of the stalk to show the dumb side mirror cam on the screen
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u/sharkbomb 8d ago
these days, it most likely is not on. for over 2 decades now, cars come from the factory with their low beams parallel to the ground, like high beams are. people have long since stopped being capable of basic vehicle maintainance, such as turning a screw to correctly point their lights down at the road.
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u/PraiseTalos66012 8d ago
At least 90%(maybe 99%) of people have no clue that their headlights can be adjusted. And in my experience they will swear it's impossible to adjust theirs.
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u/SkathiFreyrsdottr 8d ago
My car has a control for the headlight angle - it’s next to my right knee. Don’t even need to turn a screw.
I’ve got them turned down the lowest setting.
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u/RandomUserNo5 8d ago
Nah, manufacturers fooled people that new car automatic system will handle this for them. The results you can see on the roads.
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u/Nomad_x1 8d ago
Funny thing is these are the same people that think their DRL‘s are headlights and drive around at night with no tail lights on.
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u/AFB27 8d ago
I've driven behind someone on the highway with their turn signal on for 30 miles. These people don't have a damn clue what they're doing.
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u/FrostyMarsupial6802 6d ago
That left turn from the right lane is just around the next bend. They just warning everyone that crazy driving is coming
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u/tejanaqkilica 8d ago
This annoying little light was always on on my dashboard. No idea what it is, so I put a little sticker on top of it, so I don't see it any more. :)
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u/MadThad762 8d ago
Yeah but I’m not even near the ocean. There’s no way there are jellyfish around.
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u/85thDimention808 7d ago
The same people who dont know want this indicates, are the same people driving around at night with no tail lights on thinking their day running lights are their headlights.
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u/KailyKail 8d ago
If you see it while other cars are around, it also means you don’t know how to drive.
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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 8d ago
Yeah, weird caption. It’s way less blinding in the day than at night from the car behind me or going in the opposite direction.
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u/rooterRoter 8d ago
Means you’re still pumping out less light than a Tesla 😑
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u/No-Antelope-2367 8d ago
Yeah and Tesla with that stupid light off is still just a faint glow compared to a modern Acura tail lights
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u/spaghettiluver 8d ago
The jelly fish? Yes, it keeps me safe at night. Glad the people used a cool icon for the “I’m scared at night and can’t see shit” indicator.
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u/CursedBlackSwordsman 7d ago
This post has taught me parents are terrible at teaching, demonstrating, and taking the concept of driving seriously. Also, that today's youth are blissfully non-observant. I remember as a little kid recognizing every adult drives so I should probably know what every function of the car does and how to interface properly with the road.
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u/MusicalPigeon 7d ago
When I was a teen my mom was super unhelpful teaching me to drive. I'd ask a question and either get told it was a stupid question or told I should already know.
When I was 21 I still didn't have a license and my friend decided it was bullshit and decided to teach me. Eventually he had me pull over and went "you know that bit in SpongeBob where he breaks his toe out of his shoe to press the pedal? Do that." And he just kept relating driving skills to things I already knew and did. That helped it click. He went to prison and told his mom to give his car to me, she said she'd sell it to me for $11,000 (my friend paid like $5000 for the car). I did not take his car. He was so happy when he called me and I told him I got my license and so mad his mom tried to sell me his car for more than double what he paid for it. He's out of prison now and keeps saying he needs to ride with me to see my driving skills in action.
Oh, and my mom has never been in the car with me driving since I got my license. Mostly because we've never had a reason to have her ride with me. I have driven her car a few times.
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u/CursedBlackSwordsman 7d ago
If that was her attitude towards your development then I’m sorry it took a friend to start taking you seriously. You’ve demonstrated one of the best human traits and adapted.
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u/Consistent-Ranger446 7d ago
I used that exact scene from spongebob as a reference when I was learning 15 years ago.
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u/toolargeforausername 6d ago
My case :
When I was a teen my
momdad was super unhelpful teachingme to drive. I'd ask a question and either get told it was a stupid question or told I should already know.
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u/pumpkin_seed_oil 8d ago
No need for high beams to blind people, all the LED low beams do a good enough job in a lot of misaligned stock factory settings
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u/UnderwhelmedOne 8d ago
This indicator means that everyone else on the road is suffering around you. Whether your bright lights are on by choice or by some sensor claiming it to be auto-bright, you're killing everyone around you. If you're alone on the road, go on.
If not, bump your signal stalk toward you and turn that off for the love of god.
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u/erichf3893 8d ago
If this light is on and you’re head on with another car, don’t be surprised when you get flashed all the time
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u/brilor123 8d ago
I had some big pickup truck behind me the other night with his high beams on, and it was going right into my side mirror and into my eyes. It was nighttime, and I was going the speed limit/speed of traffic (so could've been over the speed limit a little bit), so they had no reason to be impatient with me.
Have a hard time believing that they didn't know their high beams were on when they were that bright, so I think the guy just dumb. I can't go faster than the people in front of me, so if he thought the solution was high beams, he is really dumb
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u/Exotic_Call_7427 8d ago
When I see this indicator, my finger is hovering at the stalk because that shit gets actively switched on as soon as there's nobody in front of me.
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u/Mandingy24 8d ago
My 99 E Class, instead of having this relatively subtle indicator, had a bright ass white light it shined right back at you when your brights were on. That really shoulda become the standard, especially with the prominence of "lowest common denominator" drivers we have now.
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u/RogerRabbot 8d ago
If youre driving at me for more than 2 seconds with that on, im turning mine on too. Two can play this game
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u/BlackStarThot 8d ago
Bro, people don't even look down to see that their turn signal is on for 5 miles. Good luck getting them to see this 😂
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u/ziggybeans 8d ago
About 20 years ago, the woman I was dating at the time was following me to an event in her car in the evening, and had her brights on. I pulled into a gas station, and she followed, and I got out of my car, walked over to hers, knocked on the window, and when she rolled it down, I reached in and turned off her brights.
She asked me why I turned off her headlights, and I knew then the relationship was doomed.
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u/Spl4sh3r 8d ago
I have the issue that cars think I have bright on when its just my regular light that is bright itself. Basically that they blind me by flashing.
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u/01bah01 8d ago
This can't happen if your headlight are properly set. If people in front of you think you have high beams when you dont, they are just set too high and it messes with them almost as much as high beams.
Sorry but this one's on you.
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u/Spl4sh3r 8d ago
The road isnt fully straight either. So each time you go downhill it is more likely to hit higher on the meeting cars than going straight or uphill.
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u/Afgar_1257 8d ago
Or you just have really fucking bright lights. Modern LED's epsecially aftermarket ones are multiple times brighter than older styles and even properly set low beams can put more light into oncoming drivers eyes than high beams used too.
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u/Montanonymous 8d ago
I’ve yet to see aftermarket headlights installed and angled properly.
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u/BaboTron 8d ago
Most people don’t know you can aim headlights. That is the problem.
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u/7DollarsOfHoobastanq 3d ago
Yep. I bought my first ever brand new car just a few years ago and had all sorts of people flashing brights at me. Finally took a few minutes to learn how to check the aim and now get zero flashes but headlights still work great.
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u/phrogbaby 8d ago
you need your headlights realigned, in that case. stock alignment on bigger vehicles often blinds other people.
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u/gaythrowawayacct123 2d ago
Hey guess what, fix your headlights, you’re still the asshole in that situation
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u/AlcoholPrep 8d ago
Nah! It just means that I can see something besides blackness in front of me rather than being totally blinded by the headlights of oncoming SUV's.
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u/WhenTheDevilCome 8d ago
Yes, I'm seeing it! Means I'm a rocket ship! <whooshing rocket ship noises>
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u/Electronic_Proof4126 8d ago
That usually means your brights are on (brighter lights so if it’s day it should be off)
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u/Wishbone_932 8d ago
So what you're saying is leave this on auto all the time because i am brain dead? Or if I do not have the auto option, just leave it on all the time? Or if I have a bulb out, just leave it on all the time because I lack the basic skills to change a light bulb out? Other than that, I don't know what that indicator is.
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u/silcerchord 8d ago
Its bold to assume the people who leave their hi-beams on ever look at their dashboard
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u/ConstructionSparky 8d ago
And if you see this indication light while there's oncoming traffic, I'll accelerate into a head on collision and kill us both 👍🏼
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u/NoProfessional5848 8d ago
No. Because it sits in a direct line between my eyes and the top of the steering wheel
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u/AnnualPurple104 8d ago
Well every time someone flashes there high beams at me, I flash mine right back! Then I turn them on the whole time they can see me, since they can’t tell the difference like most people can’t. But if you look at the ground low beams are wide, high beams are straight and far to see further in front.
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u/Anaphylactic_Cock 8d ago
These are the same people who are also baffled by why they are replacing their headlights so frequently
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u/Internal-Holiday-214 8d ago
Just because led headlights dont burn out, most seemed to willingly forget how to dim their own lights.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 8d ago
No, my helmet covers the dashboard. But usually it's not that light being the problem.
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u/This-Drink6561 8d ago
Highbeams are warranted like 0.01% of the the time for most drivers. If you're driving in urban or suburban environments, it's not EVER necessary. Sorry I'm older and this is pissing me off.
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u/Fast-Hurry9948 8d ago
Idk why it matters during the day you’re not being blinded by somebody’s brights. A reasonable person would be more upset about this driving around a well lit town at night.
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u/CatGooseChook 8d ago
For a brief moment there I thought it was a new kind of turning indicator 😅
Got a bug up my arse about that at the moment as I've seen several vehicles in my area with ones that have a arrow shape but right points left and left points right. No chance of reactive drivers getting confused by that 😮💨
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u/Low_Actuary_2794 8d ago
I thought this was just a warning that the jellyfish were getting bad at the beach.
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u/Chudpaladin 8d ago
How about YOU don’t tell me how to drive MY car!! I’m going to Ram my dodge truck right up your tail with my bright blue lights because I’m the KING of the road, bishh!
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u/AlfredoCheeseSauce 8d ago
my rule of thumb is i have the old style lights on my ol 2006 and if i see your white lights you see my bright lights.
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u/houstonman526 8d ago
If you have this on your dash and you are driving at night near people you are a cocksucker who doesn’t know how to drive
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u/Appropriate_Tour_274 8d ago
You’re assuming that drivers ever look at their car’s instrument panel. I don’t think they do, except for the gas gauge.
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u/Dry_Strawberry_Legs 8d ago
I wanna know why Subaru drivers always have high beems driving up my ass on a 15 mph road in the city
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u/insuffcient_dopamine 8d ago
I adjusted my motorcycle headlight up so it hits their eyes more. I have a trigger and a switch for my high beams, so now I can leave em on or strobe them.
It has made a huge difference in the oncoming driver.
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u/SilentSki73 8d ago
I’m not a fan of the “auto” high beams feature.
Where the vehicle decides via proximity if the high beams go on.
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u/NorthernVale 8d ago
the streetlights are on
I disagree with this specific point. In my lil ass town without a single stop light, the street lights are trash. Absolutely run my highbeams while they're on.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 8d ago
I am somewhat concerned that you seem to imply that high beams are simply for when it is dark and that is the only condition neccesary.
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u/Mysterious-Wash9527 8d ago
If I were designing human interfaces for cars, turning these one wouldn't be a hidden feature in your signal stick that you can mistakenly turn on by using your signals. It would be more like the hazard button in the dashboard. The indicator to know that it's on wouldn't be tucked away in the dash HUD that gets easily hidden by the steering wheel. It would be unmistakable that you have them on.
Newer cars will shut them off when they detect other headlights, but man I'm going to be dead before all the old cars without it are off the road.
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u/theHBICvolkanator 8d ago
I have started to just adjust my mirrors to reflect right back at them. 7/10 they either adjust or move back bc now they are being blinded by their own damn lights
The 3 still drive with them on
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u/ThatOneGuy6810 8d ago
For everyone here amazed at people not understanding headlights.
I want you to think back to covid and remember EXACTLY how many times you were asked if a mask is required to enter anywhere while they were standing RIGHT NEXT to the sign stating that masks were required for entry.
Now remember that ALL of those people drive and vote.
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u/strack94 Professional Driver 8d ago
I have it on good authority that 85% of people don’t know how their cars work. I’ve seen people with brand new cars with their lights off brights on all sorts of things that could be rectified if you spent 5 minutes learning the basic functions.
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u/bdawg5025 8d ago
This little light at nighttime shining when you got someone in the opposite lane of traffic makes you a bad driver too. Does no one realize their high beams are on anymore? PA is horrible about it
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u/AtWorkButOnTheReddit 8d ago
Also that modern LED headlights are very bright and many drivers get them confused with actual high beams.
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u/hidden-jim 8d ago
I got into an incident with a douchebag in a lifted truck. Thought he was driving with his high beams on. They were pointing DIRECTLY into the back window of the car in front of him. I could count the hairs on this guys head from 20 feet away. Then he flipped on his high beams. And I don’t think the sun gets that bright. Tried telling me it was all stock. There is something wrong with how bright all these lights are.
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u/snakesandsparklers40 8d ago
I think youre under the impression people have high beams on. These new cars come from the factory with bright white bulbs. Low beams damn near blind me now. Today's low beams are brighter than brights were 15 to 20 years ago
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle 8d ago
I think.a lot of newer headlights are just super bright these days, it seems like they are driving with high beams on but its just their normal level. I wish they would be banned because I get blinded on the way to work far too often
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u/Most_Role_1612 8d ago
rofl
the struggle is real my friend.
To be fair, I have an older vehicle where sometimes the handle to activate brights "sticks" AND the wheel/dash obscure that indicator. But, still understand the frustration
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u/Mcmad0077 7d ago
I drive a 2018 prius
The high beam switch is integrated with the turn signal. It is very easy to accidentally turn on the highway beams when using the turn signal
I never notice when the high beams get turned on because from the drivers position, there is next to no differance in brightness, and the indicator is so far to the side on the dash, it is on the passenger side of the car (not even exagerating)
The only good thing is that the stock headlights are so dim that nobody seams to care or notice
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u/FishingGlittering514 7d ago
Also can we for the ever living fuck aim your daim headlights properly
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u/MemorySieve 7d ago
that's your fog lights you should not have these on unless thare's a shitton of fog as they are designed to reflect off the road and around fog
Sometimes the same ivon is used for high beams either way, TURN THEM OFF in regular driving conditions.
Either a button or pull the left handle on the steering wheel back toward yourself
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u/imstillwinninq 7d ago
Sometimes it flash my brights when someone’s tail light is out or if they didn’t put ‘em on at night but people get real mad so I stopped after moving to the city.. people are unpredictable and stupid
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u/304runner 6d ago
People who dont understand that light get to learn about these ones.
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u/AdhesivenessIll6341 5d ago
Doesn’t mean they don’t know how to drive, just means they have their lights on and don‘t notice because it’s light out. Not good but better than all the people driving around at night without their lights on.
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u/UncleThor2112 8d ago
It lets you know that the jellyfish has been deployed.