• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Having driven 3900 miles for the holidays to see family, 1000%. Regular lights (edit: on modern cars) are too intense but also when did the majority of drivers at night simply never turn off brights? It is fucking maddening!

    Their “Safety for me but not for thee.” is so incorrect. Everyone is less safe.

    • gustofwind@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 day ago

      Half the time it’s their car auto activating brights

      They’re supposed to have sensors that deactivate the brights if it sees oncoming light but they simply don’t work…

      Otherwise it’s exactly as you say

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        Auto brights are so poorly coded, the managers who shipped those projects should be shot into the sun. But driving that long I had a lot of time to observe and ruminate. There are so many cars older than the industry’s adoption of auto brights that I’m lead to believe that people just leave them on, period. No cop is going to pull anyone over for it so everyone just does it.

        • gustofwind@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 day ago

          Cop probably cant tell the difference between a new car with normal headlights and an old car with their brights on

          Why? He’s blinded 😆

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        No, it’s always older cars like Civics, Corollas and Hyundais with older halogen headlights that are always driving with the high beams on. I flash so many of these morons.

      • BlackVenom@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        Every car I’ve been in with them is overzealous in turning off to the point that they’re useless with much traffic at all.

        It’s most likely not auto brights but humans not so brights

        • gustofwind@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          🤷‍♀️ My brother and dad both have cars that don’t turn them off properly and they’re different makes and models so I dunno