High Beams Day and Night? (Page 2): Four lit is high beams and can be a real bitch, I cuss the the driver not the lights!!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jerryc41 wrote:

Four headlights lit.

Four lit is high beams and can be a real bitch, I cuss the the driver not the lights!!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Schoee wrote:

you can be seen with low beam no problem. High beam in the day blind people and pisses them off

bingo!!!

Lucasdv123

My wife's tundra has a knob that controls the height of the lights.if you are carrying a heavy load you adjust them a little low to compensate for the weight in the back.once you unload the weight you simply turn the knob back to adjust them again.works great.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Lucasdv123 wrote:

My wife's tundra has a knob that controls the height of the lights.if you are carrying a heavy load you adjust them a little low to compensate for the weight in the back.once you unload the weight you simply turn the knob back to adjust them again.works great.

Cool
Is the knob in the cab?

Cubanphoto

The bad part is more and more people see you coming and keep the High Beam on. I rent cars very often and all new vehicle that I have rented lately all have a sensor that lower the lights when they sense an incoming vehicle.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Cubanphoto wrote:

The bad part is more and more people see you coming and keep the High Beam on. I rent cars very often and all new vehicle that I have rented lately all have a sensor that lower the lights when they sense an incoming vehicle.

hell I had a 1952 Oldsmobile that had auto dim as well as my three Lincolns

Cubanphoto

Wao! The manufacturers probably stopped installing the sensors on some models.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I use mine and welcome headlights on during the day. LEDs on high on a truck are a bit annoying but the safety factor, for me, overwhelms the annoyance factor.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Manglesphoto wrote:

hell I had a 1952 Oldsmobile that had auto dim as well as my three Lincolns

I remember that feature on cars in the 1950s. There was a sensor on the dash, wasn't there. The radio also had an option called a Wonderbar. You could tap it with your foot and change the station. We had a '58 Olds.

tuatara Loc: Orig. NZ - currently SF area

jerryc41 wrote:

I wonder if this is just a local thing or if it is... (show quote)

I don't think they are on hi-beam. It's just the result of lazy cheap ass engineering. The headlights seem to be designed more for how well they blend with the design of the vehicle than how well they do the job. There is absolutely zero reason why a headlight beam should shine above horizontal even on hi-beam.
Engineers can design and focus a light beam to hit a 6-foot dish on a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter or micron sized indent on a rapidly rotating disc drive platen, or, as has just happen to me, eye surgery, so why won't they focus a headlight to hit the road 30 feet in front of the car. Many years back I put after market headlights in my car, Cibie( a French company) Z Beams, they were sold as a matched set, L & R , and when properly adjusted even on hi-beam on coming drivers weren't blinded, and the road was well lighted from the centre line across to the curb with no shadow. This was in NZ, I understand they were illegal in the US.
Of course, the current craze of jacked up D*ck Extension trucks don't help matters.

marine73 Loc: Modesto California

nimbushopper wrote:

I thought this was just a Florida thing, it is very annoying.

Its an everywhere thing.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

Schoee wrote:

you can be seen with low beam no problem. High beam in the day blind people and pisses them off

I never had a problem with the daytime highs, nobody ever flashed their lights at me, only the high beams at night would get a response. They were very few, also.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jerryc41 wrote:

I remember that feature on cars in the 1950s. There was a sensor on the dash, wasn't there. The radio also had an option called a Wonderbar. You could tap it with your foot and change the station. We had a '58 Olds.

Yep
The wonder bar was on the radio just above the row of push buttons and a button like a dimmer switch on the floor to advance to the next station the buttons were set to.

Dannj

I don’t think it’s a high beam problem…low beams are just much brighter than they used to be. Just driving around my local area I have to adjust my line of vision to avoid the glare of the cars coming at me. I’ve had cars flick at me because they think my highs are on when they’re not…at the same time I thought there’s were on too.
My wife told her eye doctor she thought she might be having a problem with light because on coming headlights were often blinding. The doctort said: Welcome to the club! Your eyes are not the problem!

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

jerryc41 wrote:

I wonder if this is just a local thing or if it is... (show quote)

In my 2018 Honda Accord, and now in my 2024 Honda CRV, the high beams go on and off automatically. As an oncoming car approaches they go off and when no oncoming car approaches, if the roadway is not lighted sufficiently, they go on. I loved the feature in the Accord and in the CRV. BTW, the new CRV is a Hybrid. My wife & I love the SUV. It's so quiet, I can actually hear conversation while in the car. I've worn hearing aids since 77'.
Mark