High Beams Day and Night? (Page 5): Agree 100%! They are a hazard...

custodian Loc: New York

Agree 100%! They are a hazard

fredfinke Loc: Denver

Ioannis wrote:

I find older people use high beams at night mostly and that makes cense, I don’t see too many cars with high beams during daylight driving.

Seems like people are more discourteous than when I was a kid (50s/60s) and I always thought there were laws!

ymickas

I'm a bus driver, and I always drive with my headlights on day or night; however, there's no point to running your high beams during the day. I also hate two other things drivers do: 1) tailgate you with their high beams shining in your mirrors (solution: turn your mirror out just a bit. It deflects the beam back at them. Usually, they'll go around you).
2) using those light bars. You can see these things a mile away. When they're aimed right at you, they are extremely blinding. They should be outlawed.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

fredfinke wrote:

Amen!

This belongs in the "Prayer" section.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ymickas wrote:

I'm a bus driver, and I always drive with my headl... (show quote)

In NY, you can have only four lights lit on the front of your car. That's why you can't run fog lights with high beams, for example. Add-on lighting is an easy way to get around that. Yesterday, during the day, a pickup came toward me with high beams and a light bar lit (all LED) - in the daytime. It seems that (high) pickup trucks around here like to have their LED high beams on all the time.

I had a forty-five minute drive last night on two-lane roads with heavy traffic, and it was very unpleasant. Lots of LEDs and lots of high beams.

Speaking of the rearview mirror, when the lights behind me are too bad, I move the mirror all the way down. I've never been able to shoot the light back at the guy behind me. Several people online said they have bright backup lights fitted. Some use them in revenge for bright lights behind them, but most don't.

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

So, twenty years ago I got Lasik surgery on both eyes to correct my near sightedness. The downside to the procedure is that I now deal with hallows and star bursts from on coming car headlights or reflections from highway signage. Hallows are tolerable, but headlights can be dangerous because of the starburst effect and the intensity of the light itself. I thought cataract surgery might help, but it didn't.

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

So, twenty years ago I got Lasik surgery on both eyes to correct my near sightedness. The downside to the procedure is that I now deal with hallows and star bursts from on coming car headlights or reflections from highway signage. Hallows are tolerable, but headlights can be dangerous because of the starburst effect and the intensity of the light itself. I thought cataract surgery might help, but it didn't.

Lucasdv123

I was dating my wife who lived about 16 miles away in a small town 48 years ago.it had a hiway that had 2 lanes coming and 2 lanes going and was separated by about 100 ft. everytime I dropped her off it was around 12 midnight and I always had a couple of idiots who wouldn't turn off their hi beams no matter how many times I flashed them.i got me a strong spotlight and stuck it under my seat and I would hit them with it for a split second.they would slow down to almost nothing and would immediately lower their brights.i guess they thought i was a cop until one day it happened and I tried to get that light but couldn't reach it after flashing my brights about 5 or 6 times.i saw the top of the car as it past by and I could see it was a cop .thank God it didn't shine my spotlight at him.i quit doing it after that.

Mr. SONY Loc: LI, NY

Indiana wrote:

So, twenty years ago I got Lasik surgery on both eyes to correct my near sightedness. The downside to the procedure is that I now deal with hallows and star bursts from on coming car headlights or reflections from highway signage. Hallows are tolerable, but headlights can be dangerous because of the starburst effect and the intensity of the light itself. I thought cataract surgery might help, but it didn't.

I had cataract surgery years ago and still see those haloes.
They are no where as bad as they once were.
Thank goodness.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Indiana wrote:

So, twenty years ago I got Lasik surgery on both eyes to correct my near sightedness. The downside to the procedure is that I now deal with hallows and star bursts from on coming car headlights or reflections from highway signage. Hallows are tolerable, but headlights can be dangerous because of the starburst effect and the intensity of the light itself. I thought cataract surgery might help, but it didn't.

I've gotten in the habit of looking at the line on the right side of the road when bright headlights are approaching. The LEDs seem to be about 80% of the headlights now.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mr. SONY wrote:

I had cataract surgery years ago and still see those haloes.
They are no where as bad as they once were.
Thank goodness.

Fortunately, there are no haloes for me, but I hope that isn't a bad sign for my future.

marine73 Loc: Modesto California

jerryc41 wrote:

I've gotten in the habit of looking at the line on the right side of the road when bright headlights are approaching. The LEDs seem to be about 80% of the headlights now.

I have always looked to the right side with on coming traffic at night. It helps but not always as those bright lights can still be seen out of the corner of the eye, the good thing is you are not getting the effect of the full bright light.

WDN2 Loc: SF Bay Area

This is one area where we are about to see some major changes. Until a couple of years ago, Headlights were only allowed to have "high" and "low," nothing in between. For years in Europe, they have had headlights that ran with highs on all the time, but with sensors to prevent putting too much light on cars ahead or coming from the other direction. Until recently, I had a car that had two rows of LEDs, 80 total in each light, and would selectively turn them off when approaching another vehicle. It was strange seeing a square zone of darkness around cars I was coming up on while the rest of the area with lit with my highs. Also, since they were sensor-controlled, the highs would not turn on during daytime. They did a lot of other cool stuff too, such as shining higher on the shoulder when they sensed a traffic sign, and lowering and widening the beam when they sensed fog. As it turns out, the law that now allows this had not been updated since 1967. A lot has changed in the automotive world since then.

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

I can remember when only sealed-beam headlights were allowed here in the states. European cars, before they could be imported, had to have their headlights 'downgraded' to meet US regulations. Also, cars like Citrons had to have the mechanism, which moved their headlights when you turned the steering-wheel, disabled since in the US headlights had to be stationary. Now they could retract, but once deployed, they had to remain fixed.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

OldCADuser wrote:

I can remember when only sealed-beam headlights were allowed here in the states. European cars, before they could be imported, had to have their headlights 'downgraded' to meet US regulations. Also, cars like Citrons had to have the mechanism, which moved their headlights when you turned the steering-wheel, disabled since in the US headlights had to be stationary. Now they could retract, but once deployed, they had to remain fixed.

It seems that we've always been slow to catch up with the rest of the world. "It's too expensive!"