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u/legoace61 Jan 27 '23
Today I learned other countries call high beam "brights"
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u/FedsAgainstGunS Jan 27 '23
Most contries, including the US will have a population that calls them both, where i live in illinois its about 50/50 as to weather the person you're talking to calls them high/low or brights
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u/Bird_Up101 Jan 27 '23
You know what’s funny is I’m American
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u/legoace61 Jan 27 '23
Which is another country for me lol, I'm Australian.
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u/Bird_Up101 Jan 27 '23
Lol, I guess I’m dumb enough to think everyone I talk to on Reddit is American.
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u/SdVeau Jan 26 '23
Depends. Sometimes, it’s a fuckwit running their brights. Sometimes, it’s an asshole running LEDs without a beam cutoff in reflector housings, and sometimes it’s a dickwad with appropriate LEDs not knowing how to angle their headlights properly
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u/Bird_Up101 Jan 26 '23
So many ways to be a dick without knowing
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u/MinisculeMickey Smol pp Jan 27 '23
Oh, they definitely know they're being a dick, even if they're not smart enough to figure out how.
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u/Bird_Up101 Jan 27 '23
Seems about right
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u/AveryJuanZacritic Jan 27 '23
I imagine them laughing maniacally as they flash me back and set my hair on fire.
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u/SdVeau Jan 26 '23
There really should be a competency test to be able to buy them, though
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u/Any-Temperature7115 Jan 27 '23
Would argue the same thing about driving but i still find people everyday who dont know what to do at a 4 way stop.
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u/SdVeau Jan 27 '23
True. Guess we’re just always gonna have to live with a portion of the population that would have been better off as a blowjob
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u/USAIsAUcountry Jan 26 '23
Driving unashamedly with fog lights on.
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u/Electronic_Amoeba_53 android user Jan 27 '23
Driving behind one with rear fog lights on are even worse.
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u/memequeefer69 Jan 27 '23
Wh.... Why would you need rear fog lights?
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u/Joey_Kakbek Jan 27 '23
So that traffic behind you can spot you earlier in dense fog. It's usually 1 extra bright red light.
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u/highwayman9069 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
I keep high beaming these bright lights cars and when they high beam me back I become blind for about 5 seconds!
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u/PleasantWildcat Jan 26 '23
Yeah, has happened to me once or twice, but then I just got used to them. If you can still see something while driving at night, then they don't have their brights on.
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u/FavoritesBot Jan 27 '23
That’s when you have to keep another level of high beam in reserve. Super high beam
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u/sc2pirate Jan 27 '23
Night driving glasses (yellow tint) have been a lifesaver.
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u/SociallyAnxiousBoxer Jan 27 '23
I still feel like I'm being blinded with them on
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u/sc2pirate Jan 27 '23
Oh absolutely, it just makes is slightly more bearable. Without them I will get a migraine, with them I probably won't get a migraine. That's about as close to a win as I get with headlights.
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u/SBTELS Jan 27 '23
Yeah I flashed someone with LED lights once and they turned on their brights to show me and it melted the paint off the front of my car
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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 27 '23
In my experience, it's not either of those. It's that the driver in question installed them on their own and doesn't have them properly aligned so they point at the road, but are pointed straight ahead.
Professionally installed LED lights don't blind you any more than regular old headlights, because they aren't aimed up at your cabin but down at the road.
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u/Its_Stroompf Professional Dumbass Jan 27 '23
Unfortunately for me, Chuck Jones's eight foot tall ford F850 turboshitter king ranch edition pickup truck doesn't make much distinction between down at the road, and down at my windshield.
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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 27 '23
They lift the truck, too, which would require repositioning the lights, which they don't do.
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u/nhattran1029 Jan 27 '23
Could be both. It should be illegal to use LED light tbh.
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u/nolekev1214 Jan 27 '23
No. We shouldn't stifle headlight development because some people installed sketchy aftermarket headlights.
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u/vedenmorsian Jan 27 '23
I try using driving glasses because all the led lights really hurt my eyes.
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u/AdMore3461 Jan 26 '23
And on top of that, I’ve had sensitivity to bright lights for a year now - lines up right with me having Covid, but not sure if that’s a coincident. Sucks that I drive to work when it’s dark out and drive home when it gets dark again.
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u/SeriousDamage95 Jan 27 '23
We have a new car the the headlights are like the fucking Sun. We're constantly being flashed by passers by.
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u/chaplar Jan 27 '23
Definitely brighter LEDs. On a trip to Michigan not too long ago with my family, I was driving my step mom's car at like 3am. Every car I passed thought my brights were on and flashed theirs at me. I was tired and worried about deer already. It was not a fun time.
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u/Banned4Transphobia Jan 27 '23
This one time I was driving and the oncoming car was blinding the fuck out of me, so I flash my high beams at him to let him know. And then what I thought was his high beams turned into zeus’s wrath onto my eyes. Couldn’t see anything but the light. Some cars just have ridiculously strong headlights.
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u/CatalystIsMyFav Jan 26 '23
I have photophobia so regardless, it sucks. It is also very unfair because they’re allowed to shine lights into my eyes and they just drive away but if I shine lights in their eyes I get in trouble
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u/zombietampons Jan 27 '23
Don't know, my truck auto switches from High to Low, However people so signal to me as if they are on, kinda feel like it's just trendy atm. This only recently started. TBH I don't think alot of people take road grade into consideration.
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u/KRzone_ Jan 27 '23
You have to pay attention with auto switching and matrix lights. Sometimes your car doesn't "see" another car and keeps high beam on.
It's usually a problem on dark highways with the fence in the middle blocking the lights of oncoming traffic, but not their cabins
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u/makinbaconCR Jan 26 '23
"Brights" aren't brighter. They just point upward which will hit the cars in front of you instead of the road.
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u/myklclark Jan 27 '23
The answer is you’re too damn old.
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u/Super_Nova0_0 Flair Loading.... Jan 27 '23
Try have LED fog lights right... And using them with regular head lights on. You will get flashed like crazy.
Or having both led 😂 then fking around with it until you finally realize they are in the proper position, but they are just too bright and piss people off
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u/HerculesVoid Jan 27 '23
Honestly find these cars with bright lights more dangerous than being on a call while driving. And only one of them is illegal.
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u/MajinVegeta70 Jan 27 '23
Reckless people, get your brights on‼️ People are very sensitive to light and it doesn't let them see clearly, so seriously don't do that only if absolutely neccessary.
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u/Dr_Strange_Jnr Professional Dumbass Jan 27 '23
Why is this the exact debate my dad and I have in the car?
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u/FedsAgainstGunS Jan 27 '23
Generally the first, unless they're aftermarket and they didnt install them properly.
Rarely are they factory and installed improperly, though with my low car every headlight within 70 feet is a high beam, even the old square ones
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u/CT1341 Jan 27 '23
My pickup (2021 Tundra) has lights so bright they'll give you an xray if I flash you. I can see into next week but I'm sure it's a problem for oncoming traffic. I've often wondered why they make them so bright from the factory when it's a potential hazard
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u/pepsicocacolaglass12 Jan 27 '23
Leds are bright because of how efficient they are 90% more efficient than incandescent bulbs so if feed the same amount of power make 90% brighter lights
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u/InvisibleKineticSand Jan 28 '23
LED lights are the worst my dad and I both think they should be illegal
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u/michron98 Jan 29 '23
Yeah, I hate LED headlights, they're way too bright and blue. What happened to good old halogen? I see all that I need to with them if there aren't any of these LED beacons ahead, and their colour tone is much nicer to look at.
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u/cmlan25 Jan 27 '23
Both. I also have astigmatism so it makes the lights a little spicy