Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/uWo4qIU.gifv

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/uWo4qIU.gifv

chitoryu12 posted:

LifeSunDeath posted:

I hardly ever drive at night anymore, but mostly I see trucks with either LED aftermarket lights or brights on constantly because they're assholes.

MizPiz posted:

You're supposed to quickly flip your brights on and off until they stop

SpacePig posted:

But my elderly aunt shared an artifact-filled photo of a piece of paper that said that this was a trigger for a gang ritual.

MizPiz posted:

You're supposed to quickly flip your brights on and off until they stop

Data Graham posted:

I drive a Focus and I frequently have people flash their brights at me when approaching in the opposite lane. I have my low beams on, but apparently they look like brights.

If I have the presence of mind and am fast enough I flash them back, like "Hey yo this is as low as they go"

Queen Combat posted:

(Headlights can be adjusted, you probably need to adjust yours)

Data Graham posted:

I drive a Focus and I frequently have people flash their brights at me when approaching in the opposite lane. I have my low beams on, but apparently they look like brights.

If I have the presence of mind and am fast enough I flash them back, like "Hey yo this is as low as they go"

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

High beams have their name because they aim at a higher angle to illuminate further in front of you, not because they're high power/brighter (although the secondary high beam bulbs usually are.). You can probably adjust the angle out of the eyeline of oncoming traffic very easily. Please don't flash back to further blind people who are trying to alert you of this because that's the world's dumbest possible fleeting conversation.
https://owner.ford.com/support/how-tos/exterior/lights/how-to-adjust-headlights.html

Kit Walker posted:

I cycle a lot and recently moved to a city where people actually ride with lights and reflective vests and poo poo and get angry at you if you don’t. The problem is that some people use EXTRAORDINARILY BRIGHT LIGHTS and I literally can’t judge their distance or see anything around them whatsoever when they approach as a result. It’s just the stupidest thing. The fact that there are drivers out there doing the same thing is just mindboggling

Kit Walker posted:

I cycle a lot and recently moved to a city where people actually ride with lights and reflective vests and poo poo and get angry at you if you don’t.

redgubbinz posted:

They probably ARE the low beams, they come from the factory ready to blind everyone else. They're also unreliable and hideously expensive to replace, because making things worse with technology is the exact same thing as innovation.

Data Graham posted:

All right, for a little context I guess (this is a Wendy's, right)...

I really don't think it's an adjustment issue. These are the bi-Xe headlights on the Focus RS, which are different from the regular Focus ones, and have all this adaptive turn-following gimbel functionality that is really not meant to be user-serviceable. https://mk3focusrs.club/about-the-car/features/bi-xenon-lighting/ I've adjusted headlights myself on a number of cars over the years, and this one I don't think I'd want to go near.

Also it's not just one car, it's two separate Focus RS'es, a 2016 and a 2017, that I noticed this same oppposing-driver behavior in over the course of 2-3 years right after they were brand-new. I know high beams are an angle thing in any case; when this kept happening and I kept getting flashed, I did some experimentation where I mapped out the projected light pool on both low and high beams against a flat wall, and also drove a different car toward it at an opposing angle to see what other drivers were actually seeing. The low beams didn't seem to be aiming in the other driver's face at all from what I could tell. Nice sharp cutoff.

So what I'm trying to say with my dumb anecdote is that I think there's just something about the RS headlight design, like the shape or maybe just the brightness, that makes people think they're doing high beams when they're actually not.

Point taken though, I won’t flash back anymore

bike tory posted:

I've often wondered when it sets in. I'm a dad now, at what point do I start doing the loud sneezes? Is it a slow change or do I just wake up one day an led that's how they come out?

Also when does my regular breathing become that loud slightly whistling kind that can be heard from the other side of a quiet room? Is that around the same time I start clearing my throat and snorting at like 90db every few minutes?

Claeaus posted:

I think it's supposed to start automatically when you become a dad, you might need to take a paternity test my friend.

Cartoon Man posted:

Phlegmish posted:

I think it's more of an age than a gender thing. Some of the loudest sneezers I know are boomer women. They will drop a 200 dB sneeze, doesn't matter where it is, a violin concert or a funeral, they just don't give a gently caress anymore. Meanwhile I'm sitting there millennially trying to sneeze with my mouth closed and as inconspicuously as possible, like a li'l bitch

chitoryu12 posted:

Phlegmish posted:

I think it's more of an age than a gender thing. Some of the loudest sneezers I know are boomer women. They will drop a 200 dB sneeze, doesn't matter where it is, a violin concert or a funeral, they just don't give a gently caress anymore. Meanwhile I'm sitting there millennially trying to sneeze with my mouth closed and as inconspicuously as possible, like a li'l bitch

Kramdar posted:

LOL they be just cropping Twitter screenshots.

mind the walrus posted:

Pocohantas, Snow White, and Winnie the Pooh are inspired.

Cartoon Man posted: