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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 643
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:17 pm: | 
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I've been driving for under a year now and I've noticed that modern lights are EXTREMELY bright! And on top of that (I've been driving on 24 a lot lately) that people will put their brights on when totally unnecessary! The brights in a 1990 Corolla are like some of the standard lights today...its obnoxious...GRRR on more than one occasion ive gotten off at an exit and been hit by a series of brights...making it nearly impossible to see the road in front of me. It's great that people are finally turning them on...but what the hell? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13699
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:19 pm: |
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I agree. Over time, you will pick up the skill of looking away and seeing what you need to with your peripheral vision. In other words, as offensive as it is, you will find it to be less annoying.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4745
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:24 pm: |
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It's more than offensive and annoying, it's dangerous. Your peripheral vision is only good for seeing so much, for the rest of it you're just taking a wild guess. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13701
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:26 pm: |
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I'm not justifying it, tom. I've just found ways to cope. That's all. What you say is right, too.
I think initially, my reflex was to stare right at the headlights, in an unconscious attempt to understand why the driver was using the high beams. I've learned to untrain that impulse.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4748
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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You're right, it's just that there is still a lot of visual information that I don't have because of the blind spot the brights create. If it's on an unfamiliar road, I'm often just guessing whether it curves or not. Plus, road hazards, deer, pedestrians, even stop signs, are all things that I ought to be aware of, but can't see. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 652
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 4:25 pm: |
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Yeah I was coming around this curve in Whippany at night and I was blinded by someone in oncoming traffic ...I took my foot off the accelerator and just coasted because it too 3-5 seconds to regain my bearings on the road |
combustion
Citizen
Username: Spontaneous
Post Number: 5
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 1:21 pm: |
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I remember in DMV class, many many moons ago, that we were taught to look at the lower right corner of the road if an oncoming vehicle has it's hi-beams on. Basicly you're following the curb for a few seconds. This allows you to maintain control of the vehicle, and since you're not seeing the lights directly you won't be blinded. Even with these super bright lights they have now I've never had a problem. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13750
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 4:59 pm: |
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Here's something else that puzzles me. Someone pulls over to the right, to let off a passenger or something like that. And he puts on his LEFT blinker. I'm sure he has a mistaken notion of how to signal that he is pulled over. As far as I am concerned, the left blinker means "go around me on the right and don't pass on my left" and a right blinker means "go around me on the left and don't pass on my right".
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Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1385
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 5:27 pm: |
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This is EXACTLY why I don't use either headlights or turn signals - they're too confusing. |
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