You're BLINDING ME!

[jjllbb]

I drive a lot at night.

When another car is coming along you obviously turn down your high beams so you don't blind them. Or at least, you SHOULD. Somehow, there are people out there who don't seem to want to BOTHER doing the same thing for YOU.

And it's bad enough when they don't turn down their high beams at all but the WORST is when they turn them down just until their car is RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, waiting until their headlights are just next to your window and FLIP THEM ON.

It's the worst thing they could do. it's like you're suddenly looking into the sun!

Seriously people!! You can't freaking wait until you're at least PAST my car to turn them on?????!!!!!!!

I'd rather them not turn them off at all.

I know i'm going to have an accident one of the times this happens again. Its so blinding.

[blas]

Happens to me almost every single night.

The best part of all is where these people are using their brights is IN TOWN and on the busy freeway....of course it's not that busy at night, but it's not that convenient to have to keep dimming and then turning them back on every few minutes.........

I just shake my head every night on my way to work when all these drooling idiots are riding around town with their brights on and wailing down the freeway having to adjust their brights every few miles.....it's NOT that dark, what is your issue?

[Stormraven]

Those people are horrible for me. My eyes are intensely sensitive to light. Brights at night are quite literally painful if I get taken by surprise.

I usually manage by keeping my eyes focused to the side and ahead, so I don't look at them directly, but maintain enough awareness to react to them if I have to.

[mikoyan29]

My favorite is the jackass who has to get right behind and still has the lights that he stole from airliner.....

[ditchdj]

Happens here all the time.

Some even use them during the daytime too.

When I flash them they just ignore me.

[McGoddess09]

Had someone behind me have their brights on, in the worst fog I had ever seen. He turned them on right when I was in front of him.

Ugh. Turn off your brights,people.

[blas]

Monday night, someone got behind me at a red light to enter the freeway with their brights still on. I don't even know why they had them on in the first place....because the main highway is very well lit and there's too much traffic to even bother trying the brights.

About 5 miles later, all the while still behind me and driving me bananas, that tard finally realized "Oh shit!" and turned them off.

I swear, vehicles should be made with sensors so that brights cannot be activated unless it's so dark out, and if another vehicle is within x range, they dim themselves, since most people are obviously too stupid to comprehend that you DON'T use them in town or on busy streets and you DIM them when people are coming at you.

[McGoddess09]

Blas, I totally agree with you. I often wonder why we have cars with voice activated mp3s and seat warmers and the like, but we don't have that little safety feature.

[blas]

Supposedly there are cars that won't start if you don't have your seatbelt on as well. Which is odd, because I don't put my seatbelt on until after I've turned the car on, picked my radio station/CD, got my stuff together...then I click it, then go.

We really should suggest this. It would really put an end to a lot of people's eye pains from idiots who think that the bright symbol on the dash means that their headlights themselves are on.

[mikoyan29]

Monday night, someone got behind me at a red light to enter the freeway with their brights still on. I don't even know why they had them on in the first place....because the main highway is very well lit and there's too much traffic to even bother trying the brights.

About 5 miles later, all the while still behind me and driving me bananas, that tard finally realized "Oh shit!" and turned them off.

I swear, vehicles should be made with sensors so that brights cannot be activated unless it's so dark out, and if another vehicle is within x range, they dim themselves, since most people are obviously too stupid to comprehend that you DON'T use them in town or on busy streets and you DIM them when people are coming at you.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we do not need one MORE thing that cars will do for people that are either too stupid, careless or selfish to do on their own.

[Nohbody]

I think the brights buttheads are one of my bigger driving hot buttons, especially given that my night vision already can give black holes pointers on how to suck.

When I was delivering pizza, usually they came up right as I was trying to read a street sign or looking for a particular number.

As for blas' suggestion, while in general I dislike coddling idiots, the suggestion she (sorry for the mixup) made isn't really as much for them as for the other people on the road, since it's kinda illegal in most jurisdictions to outright shoot the inconsiderate asshats. and nothing less is likely to get the point across.

[blas]

Pssst....I'm a she

I don't necessarily agree with coddling or aiding idiots, but since we can't just take away driver's licenses because of constant little idiotic tendencies, we might as well do it just for the sake of keeping the smart drivers safe and retaining their vision.

[Chromatix]

Railways usually have interlocks to prevent drivers from doing stupid things (or at least developing stupid habits). Most will prevent power from being applied unless the brakes are released, for example, and many will also hold the brakes on if the passenger doors are open. There's even a widely-used system that makes putting a brick on the "deadman's handle" futile, and many European signalling systems will automatically stop the train if the driver fails to respond to an adverse signal.

Airliners have all sorts of failsafe detectors which give pilots warnings if something unusual happens. They don't usually *prevent* the pilot from doing something unusual when necessary - except for Airbuses, which have protections against stalling or rolling over - but they make damn sure the pilot knows he's doing something that could be very very stupid.

Both of the above transport industries are heavily regulated, and accidents are always investigated to find and correct the root cause.

Cars have none of these things. Only a few of the latest and most advanced models have basic "don't run into the very solid object dead ahead" protections. For everything else, there's the "idiot light" which most idiots ignore anyway.

Nobody is surprised any more when the roads are shown to kill more people than any other form of transport. People don't seem to be very inclined to do much about it though. Regulating the roads like airlines and railways would fundamentally change the nature of them.

[mattm04]

I enjoy the people who attempt to use high beams in heavily traveled and usually well lit areas where they turn the on and off every 30 seconds. The first mile or two form my work toward home while use high beans will make a very small difference, it is not usually worth it. Once I get a little farther out of town, then it becomes much less traveled and very few street lights. In town their are lights an every other pole on the main roads, farther out it is only on intersections and other ares were it is considered more dangerous, such as sharp turns.

[blas]

Another one last night, this time, just blocks from my house. Some drooling Ramens-for-brains was going up the main residential street with their brights on....and being the main residential street....you guessed it....WELL lit. Even with the city trying to save money and not using all the street lights at once....still well lit.

Fucking idiot.

Not to mention a handful of them this past weekend driving to/from my boyfriend's house on Friday and Saturday nights. Dim your damn headlights when you see headlights coming at you, not when we're 20 feet from each other!