People who use blinding blue headlights are ____(fill_in_the_blank)____.

[Shagbark Hickory]

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. a-holes?

[idiotgardener]

2. Most likely unaware.

I have no idea what my headlights look like as I am driving towards someone.

[nolabear]

3. Just people with blinding blue headlights.

I used to be one of them. Wasn't told the headlights were blinding blue when I bought the car, didn't think it blinding enough to get rid of the car or change the entire system to accomodate different headlights. They glare less on wet and are distinctive and when I see them on other cars (I don't have them any more) I think "Oh, blue headlights like I used to have." They don't bother me and then they're gone.

Asshole? Well, maybe all the other ways I try to be considerate will offset it. I did love that car. My son drives it now. He's wonderful, young,poor as a churchmouse and doesn't have the money to either swap out the system or get another car.

Just poeple.

[BlueJazz]

4. going to find them expensive to replace when others learn what great ...

...pellet-gun targets their headlights are......

I dispise the F**ing things.
Like driving with the sun in your eyes

[Kat45]

5. When those are driving toward me, I can't see anything in front of me.

I think they have the potential to cause a lot of accidents. Hate them.

[Skittles]

6. they blind me

I already have night blindness but those damn lights BLIND me

[TorchTheWitch]

7. I hate those damn things!

Whose dumbass idea was these evil things anyway? They fry out your retinas. Even after they pass you you still can hardly see for way too damn long. Yeah, there's a great idea - put in headlights that blind everyone driving toward you and risk them crashing into you or someone else head-on. Idiocy. Just barking idiocy.

[Chan790]

23. There was talk of mandating them on new cars at one point.

Along with daytime running-lights.

Brighter, more focused beams in headlights and always-on headlights both equal safer...or so the logic went. I wondered why that proposal went nowhere, they don't bother me and I was unaware they bothered anybody this much.

[TorchTheWitch]

30. be thankful they don't blind you

They sure do to a hell of a lot of us. It's scary as hell and dangerous as hell to not be able to see while driving because of them.

[nadine_mn]

8. my husband wants them - dumbass - I hate them

They hurt my eyes. I need to direct him to this thread so he can see I am not the only one prone to violence at the sight of them

[Bake]

9. That's why I have 747 landing lights on my car

So when some a-hole blinds me with his blue headlights I can fry his retinas!

HA! Take that!

:hi:

Bake

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. I had a truck airhorn on my VW Beetle.

God, that was fun.

[Bake]

22. I bet that caused some soiled undies!

Get right behind somebody and BLAST IT!

Good times!

:hi:

Bake

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Back in my "younger and more evil " days.

Damn horn sounded like a train on the tracks.
:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[HopeHoops]

10. The same sort of fucksticks that put fake European license plates on the front of their cars.

[blueamy66]

11. the same assholes that don't know what a turn signal is

or don't know how to merge onto a freeway.....you don't stop at the end of the entrance ramp and wait for someone to let you in....if you can't drive, stay offa the freeway

[MissMillie]

12. I heard on "Car Talk" (at least I think it was Car Talk...

...it may have been some other news program)


that those lights when factory installed are typically fine. It's the folks that install their own that don't line them up properly, and that's why they seem so blinding.

[progressoid]

13. ...pissing us off.

I hate those damn things.

[A Simple Game]

14. They usually bother me less than normal headlights. n/t

[tabbycat31]

15. HATE THEM!

And I have a long commute (~70 miles) and every night there is some fucker behind me on the Garden State Parkway with those things and another fucker that does not understand when to turn the high beams off.

[valerief]

16. probably people who blab away in their cells in supermarket lines. nt

[skypilot]

17. ...even more annoying than...

...people who take flash photos in dim bars.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Assholes. Period.

I had to night drive an hour along a mostly 2 lane highway leading up to Lake Tahoe once -- it is hardcore, curvy mountain driving with zero road lighting. I faced car after car after care with those fucking headlights - they would rip around an oncoming curve and just hit me right in the eyes, temporarily blinding me -- which is not a good thing when you are on a turn with a 200' drop away on one side. :scared: :crazy: There were several times I just pulled the car into a turnout just to take a minute and calm my nerves.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

19. begging for a head on

collision.

[krispos42]

21. Idiots that can't afford high-intensity discharge upgrades

They replace the filament bulbs with HID units... except that the parabolic reflector is shaped for the dimensions of the filament, not the HID arc.

The placement, size, and shape are not perfectly interchangeable. A 0.060" change in the headlamp assembly can cause the beam to become diffuse instead of sharply focused... blinding oncoming drivers while simultaneously reducing their effective range.



Get yourself some SilverStar halogens if regular halogens don't work for you.

[Glassunion]

25. The root of all evil in this world. I hate them and everything they stand for.

[JoeyT]

26. Obnoxious, but nowhere near as obnoxious as

people with trucks or SUVs that get six inches from your bumper and ride there with their lights on bright no matter how much you speed up or slow down.

[yankeepants]

27. Republicans

[geardaddy]

28. 1% frat-boy wannabe douch-nozzles.

[Blue_Tires]

29. (censored)

They must be illegal in Virginia now, or at least WAY out of style...7-8 years ago they were everywhere, and I'd completely forgotten about them until I saw this post...