brights
brights
i assume most members here drive cars. i propose that we as car drivers stick up for ourselves and use our brights at night. except when on crowded roads or when facing cars, motorcycles, emergency vehicles or some other exceptional vehicles. but when faced with semi's, buses, full size trucks, or suv's we should continue to use our brights. we should not give these vehicles any sympathy. the drivers of these vehicles sometimes choose to drive them to provide more protection and be immune to other cars. thats true, they are less effected by our brights, so that means we don't have to turn them off. if you drive a truck your opinion is biased therefore your opinion doesn't matter. so please don't respond and spend the time you save getting better brakes for your potentially child butchering vehicle.
Last edited by MaxR; Dec 12, 2003 at 01:26 AM.
i keep mine on if my friends in front of me to bug them sometimes....or ill pull a toyko extreme racer zero and flash the person in front of me to race 
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beat a newer civic, my friends 94 cavvy, and a honda element(lol don't ask)
and i lost to my girlfriends mustang v6...and it was 3 wks ago and she still won't let me live it down
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Edit: oh and Joe...not all of us got HID
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beat a newer civic, my friends 94 cavvy, and a honda element(lol don't ask)
and i lost to my girlfriends mustang v6...and it was 3 wks ago and she still won't let me live it down
lolEdit: oh and Joe...not all of us got HID
lol
common courtesy for car drivers but don't give the truck drivers an inch because they don't need it and they aren't giving us any breaks. trucks are the enemy. stay strong. don't give in. we can beat them.
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Personally (and this may just be my opinion alone) I am not as concerned with "giving in" or losing this "battle". The fact remains that when bright lights are aimed directly at another driver's eyes, that person might not be able to see. So I don't see how blinding that 5,000 lb SUV facing directly towards you is going to prove anything, other than how you can risk blinding an already ignorant and stupid driver and get yourself killed in the process.
I agree that trucks and other drivers with bright lights should use common courtesy in having them aligned properly (especially with trucks on lift kits and stuff like that), but whenever I feel tempted to blind the jerk with my high wattage brights, I think about the trouble I am having in seeing him (or her) and realize doing the same back could result in a head-on collision. There no winners in that case.
My only solution is to have cops write more fix-it tickets for people with misaligned headlights, and moving violations for people using brights on crowded streets (especially with street lamps). Also, is there any vehicle code regarding brightness or candle power for headlamps? That might be a good idea, too, as there are cars (as well as trucks) using way too high of a wattage in their low beams than they ever need. That's my .02 fee free to disagree.
I agree that trucks and other drivers with bright lights should use common courtesy in having them aligned properly (especially with trucks on lift kits and stuff like that), but whenever I feel tempted to blind the jerk with my high wattage brights, I think about the trouble I am having in seeing him (or her) and realize doing the same back could result in a head-on collision. There no winners in that case.
My only solution is to have cops write more fix-it tickets for people with misaligned headlights, and moving violations for people using brights on crowded streets (especially with street lamps). Also, is there any vehicle code regarding brightness or candle power for headlamps? That might be a good idea, too, as there are cars (as well as trucks) using way too high of a wattage in their low beams than they ever need. That's my .02 fee free to disagree.
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I agree with you. I have the clearer lights from autozone (not hid, but the "white" lights) and I have people flashing me. I.E.: SUV, pickups, etc. I just flash my brights basically saying "hey IDIOT, THEY'RE NOT ON!!"
While we're on the subject of flashing lights: what do the different flashes mean? I know that if they single tap their brights, they want you to turn your brights off. But is it two taps for cop or single long one? Anyone know of any other reasons to use your brights?
While we're on the subject of flashing lights: what do the different flashes mean? I know that if they single tap their brights, they want you to turn your brights off. But is it two taps for cop or single long one? Anyone know of any other reasons to use your brights?
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Re: brights
Originally posted by MaxR
i assume most members here drive cars. i propose that we as car drivers stick up for ourselves and use our brights at night. except when on crowded roads or when facing cars, motorcycles, emergency vehicles or some other exceptional vehicles. but when faced with semi's, buses, full size trucks, or suv's we should continue to use our brights. we should not give these vehicles any sympathy. the drivers of these vehicles sometimes choose to drive them to provide more protection and be immune to other cars. thats true, they are less effected by our brights, so that means we don't have to turn them off. if you drive a truck your opinion is biased therefore your opinion doesn't matter. so please don't respond and spend the time you save getting better brakes for your potentially child butchering vehicle.
i assume most members here drive cars. i propose that we as car drivers stick up for ourselves and use our brights at night. except when on crowded roads or when facing cars, motorcycles, emergency vehicles or some other exceptional vehicles. but when faced with semi's, buses, full size trucks, or suv's we should continue to use our brights. we should not give these vehicles any sympathy. the drivers of these vehicles sometimes choose to drive them to provide more protection and be immune to other cars. thats true, they are less effected by our brights, so that means we don't have to turn them off. if you drive a truck your opinion is biased therefore your opinion doesn't matter. so please don't respond and spend the time you save getting better brakes for your potentially child butchering vehicle.
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Alright, I don't get it...
I have logged almost 200k miles, most of them on US freeways. I have covered 39 out of the 48 mainland states. So I think it's fair to say that I've pretty much seen it all? Yet, I don't find headlights on semi's, buses, trucks, or SUV's to be terribly bright or annoying. If properly aligned, an oncoming truck or SUV should not be blinding other drivers.
IMO, these three types of cars do much worse than trucks and SUV's:
1/. cars equipped with blue-ish headlights
2/. cars with mis-aligned headlights
3/. cars driven by ******* drivers who refuse to turn off their high beams.
I have logged almost 200k miles, most of them on US freeways. I have covered 39 out of the 48 mainland states. So I think it's fair to say that I've pretty much seen it all? Yet, I don't find headlights on semi's, buses, trucks, or SUV's to be terribly bright or annoying. If properly aligned, an oncoming truck or SUV should not be blinding other drivers.
IMO, these three types of cars do much worse than trucks and SUV's:
1/. cars equipped with blue-ish headlights
2/. cars with mis-aligned headlights
3/. cars driven by ******* drivers who refuse to turn off their high beams.
