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I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.
Lmao, folk really be driving in light mode.
Do not casually drive in Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945.
Okay but what if I’m in a Toyota ae86 and need to deliver sushi?
If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
Big if true!
As I understand, some have several digits at the very end of those forelimbs and possess sufficient dexterity to use specifically the middle one of those to block the bright light.
GTFOH troll. Stop playing on fantasy land.
Clean your windshield (correctly) and get some polarized sunglasses
But first he should surrender his driver’s license after revealing he’s a careless threat to his road safety & others’.
Or! And hear me out, here. A wile E. Coyote style painted brick wall.
Just perform a safety squint.
Can’t stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don’t have “the bright” lights.
That’s the sun >.>
yeah well someone should do something about this “sun”
yeah and it drives like an asshole
It seems like the sun is being reflected off the bus’s window.
Would polarising glasses help?No, it’s the actual direct fucking Sun ffs
Kill it!
Oh right.
Had to look at it a bit longer to realise.
The rear light on that vehicle looked kinda like that of a bus though.
Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.
with the driver stood on his phone.
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!
I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled “you cannot park there mate” 😉
Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?
Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Thank you for this!! I’ll be picking some up this weekend.
Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.
I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.
I have some BKF for the kitchen sink but didn’t know they made toilet cleaner, thanks for the tip!
Sweet, thanks! Fingers crossed this will be the answer to my shower woes 🤞
I’m rooting for you! I’m convinced it’s magic so it might even cure diseases, who knows.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
[off topic]
You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He’s your ‘wise hermit.’
Well as someone who has crewed on race cars and had a hand in building more than a few, not a single word of what you said was wrong.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person with a partner who is on the spectrum, I cannot say how much I appreciate her and you.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person
We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about “getting around to it” and dont.
Clean your windshield, inside and out,
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Late is better than calling insurance. Maintain distance.
Then stand still
I don’t think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.
I would love to know why anybody would downvote this observation.
I guess some people can’t imagine a 2-lane, opposed traffic route/rural highway. 🤷
An actual adult in the room.
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
I’m impressed you got your windshield replaced in one hour on Black Friday
Lol! I had it replaced two months ago. Of course now I’m wondering if Safelite runs Black Friday sales
Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.
* but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.
Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
What is your name traveller… 😆
I would love to see Limmy on Lemmy. He’d fit right in here.
Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.
\*slams brakes in the middle of the road*
NO EXCEPTIONS
You’d kill less people that way
I’m not sure the people driving behind me would agree
They’ll survive. They’re cars might not…
Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.
This comment section is either too autistic or not autistic enough, because they’re either unable to identify the joke in the post, or I’m unable to identify their level 7 advanced satire.
This is lemmy. The only way in ze real life we could deal with jokes is by pretending to not get them, and now it’s even taking over our online lives! AAAAAAAH!
Okay well maybe you should count me in with the autistics because what I see in that post is a filthy windshield and driver can’t see the road with the sun in their eyes and he’s also taking a picture while driving. Major threat to road safety.
It’s just a silly “Jesus take the wheel” joke
We identify the joke, it’s just not very funny
Nothing says “I can tell this is a joke, but it’s not funny” like telling OP that they’re acting dangerously as though they’re actually doing this, and giving them actual advice as though they asked for any.
/sJoke not funny, advice dumb. People no haha, give better advice.
Judging by those advice posts being massively upvoted - seems most agree.
advice dumb. People […] give better advice.
Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I’m talking about.
What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?
Even if it wasn’t funny, if you recognize it as a joke, none of the behavior makes sense. This smells strongly of lying to save face.Once again, I can’t tell if you’re too autistic to understand a joke, or I’m too autistic to understand your advanced satire.
You should change your username to PermanentlyPedantic
4D Checkers
I think with Lemmy it’s almost always the former
you can show up to work before sunrise and leave after sunset.
signed,
your boss
Easy enough in the winter. This pic is my commute both ways in autumn though.
Your own fault for living west of your workplace.
easily done with 10am sunrise and 2pm sunset
Wash your window, dumbass.
How would that help? his eyes are closed. Didn’t you read it?
Ohh nah, I was reminding myself to wash my window.
Why… why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?
Because he points to the left and thy wanted to point to the comment above
Geeeez, just rotate the image π/2 radians then.
Oh. My bad, it never even cross my mind. So it’s basically the gif equivalent of “This.”?
Thy doth pointeth
