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Has anyone noticed that over the years especially the last few years that the head lights on cars are getting brighter and brighter to the point that its almost impossible on some new cars to tell if they have their brights on or not?
And im talking stock cars here not just the ghetto kids souped up shit.
My Xeon lights can project people's shadows onto walls Hiroshima style.
YES !
I was almost blinded by headlights just the other night driving home from work.
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Damn right. My mom's RSX has Xeon headlights and it's like turning on the sun. Great to be behind, a bitch to be in front of.
...that's why I'm mounting a chaingun to the hood of my car...
Thank god I don't do Acid or shrooms.
That would make it 100 times worse. As it is, it's one of those highly annoying things that is legal, so there really isn't much to do about it.
Ive noticed this too and it annoys the fuck out of me
My eyes are very sensitive to light so having some soccer mom in a new SUV with thunder dome 2010 head lights aka sun burn lamps at night right behind me fucking sucks...
Its about time I get a low shade strength pair of sun glasses to drive at night...
Speaking of little ghetto bitches I had my brother in laws friend pull up while I was at his house and start bragging about the super dope ass brightness of his lights on his ricer.
The fucker even installed super bright reverse lights.
What a dick, they were like fucking flood lamps on a hunting truck.
I think they started using different bulbs...it is annoying as hell though.
Just break the lights, then. Use your anger in a CONSTRUCTIVE manner. Constructive, in this case = Destruction of bright lights.
Done!
Yeah.
You need to give up the sauce, dude.
Probably a bad idea for you to drink in public again.
Some people around here drive around with their brights on. No, they're not really bright regulars, we've got plenty of those too. There've been several times I've confirmed the guy behind me blinding the crap out of me has his brights on.
Fog lights are pretty damn bright too. I think they're lame. Fog in Iowa is like snow in Arizona people!
Those newer pickups are a real pain to come by as they seem like their brights are always on.
I'm very light-sensitive...it gets to the point that I am totally blind when those lights are coming at me. I actually just look for shadows and hope there's nothing else I can hit.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
Those lights are extremely dangerous...they need to be regulated.
Supposedly, some law makers are trying to pass a law on those bright lights. I guess having manufacturers either lower the brightness or use a different lighting. I heard this on the news awhile ago.
We should start a group or something, for real that shit bothers me.. hell I had to turn off the light in this room just a few minutes ago because my eyes were bothered by it..Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
the worst is the Xeon lights on motorcycles, they hit small bumps, the focal point jumps up and down and it's just like a strobe light flashing behind you.
Actually the bikes around here now have lights that go in and out fast like they were on a bumpy/gravel road to make them more noticeable...Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
See, I can't turn the lights off if I'm at the PC because the light from the monitor just blinds me in a dark room. Same with a TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
I can sleep with the lights on fine, for example, but if the room is dark and there's light shining from the next room under the door, I may as well be in the middle of Times Square.
You have a problem.. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
That's what my GF thinks...she's like one of these vampire people who likes watching everything in the dark.
And another thing: sudden exposure to bright light (especially sunlight) makes me sneeze. Almost all the time.
Yeah, I have noticed. And it's not like a normal colour either. It's like they're tinted purple or something. I noticed the colour when I was driving in the daylight. They're not illegal but they are blinding and could pose a danger as they are distracting. Nothing to make you swerve off the road in disbelief or agitation. I didn't think anybody else had noticed...
Glad to see I'm not going crazy.... well...
That's just weird. Really, really weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
I'd have a psychologist look into that for you...you might be spawned from evil...Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
Surprisingly, I have found other people who experience the sun-sneezing thing, including a girl I used to date.
If you had kids with her, the would plunge into a millenium of darkness...
I thought you were sopposed to look at the sun if you had to sneeze to stop it, your life seems to be one big opposite day.
But yeah sun light bothers my eyes allot, I feel like a vampire sometimes.
I thought the eyelashes are like a sunshade. If so, it aint working. Everytime I go outside, my eyes are squinted. Its bad enough its squinted already as I'm asian, but this looks like I'm walking blind.
i sleep with a beanie pulled over my eyes sometimes when I sleep in the day time thats how light sensitive i am.
A light blue f-ing beanie.
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Originally Posted by bandit
Thats dope dawg..Quote:
Originally Posted by M
Motorcycles oftentimes have their brights on (especially during daylight) so that people will hopefully see them. Drivers oftentimes look "through" bikers, since they are so adjusted to seeing two headlights/taillights at the edges of the lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
I've actually been saying this for ages. I complain about headlights (and SUVs) all the time in forums :D
Really, one time, this punk ass Asian kid in a rice rocket is trying to make a left hand turn from the other direction... he has 2 halogen headlights, 2 giant WRX style fog lights and 2 extra (supposedly stock) head/foglights... erm... it was like staring into the sun... I nearly crashed because I couldn't see if there was oncoming traffic. I'd report him to the police... but I couldn't even tell what kind of car, let alone read his license plate. *sigh*
But more commonly, I just hate SUVs with halogen lamps. It's bad enough they're hella bright. It's doubly worse when they're lined up directly at my rear view mirror. Ugh.
Ah... another fun thing to bitch about. It's all too common around me. Long Island is just FILLED with stupid people with too much money. Where does it go? A stupid, unneccessary SUV (don't act like you're invincible, I saw you fishtailing in the snow, you stupid bastards) or a sports car. Both have those insufferable lights. These things make it damn near impossible to see sometimes.
I do have a funny story, though...
Some spoiled moron kid with his souped-up sports car was tailgating me with these lights at around 2 am on the Southern State parkway (LIers know what I'm talking about. See, that's when there's NOBODY ON IT. You wouldn't think that ever happened, would you?). Then, because I guess he thought it was cool or somesuch, he pulls around me really quickly and tries to drive off. Of course, I put on my brights, and sit on HIS ass until I get around my exit. So, he moves over to the next lane and starts doing 90, and I got off, went home, and went to sleep. Jovial.
Damn straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by negitoro
Some ass clown in a big truck did that last night on my way home from work.
Its dark out, his truck lights shining right through the back of my window and he is tail gating like a momo.
So after about 3 brake checks he gets the point and backs off about 20 feet, still not enough though.
I have to sleep with things pulled over my eyes at times, though only if there's an overhead light on close to me or I'm trying to sleep in a car on a road trip. Aside from headlights being outrageously bright I find that the streetlights are enough to make me insane. If they were consitently bright it wouldn't bother me! Driving by, they come on, then off, then on, then off.... o.O
As for regulating headlight brightness, it wont happen to a degree that would make the problem go away. Sure, maybe the cars will come with lights that are more dim, but so many people modify their cars the roads would still be plagued by the blinding Xenons and the like. Bright headlights aren't going to just disappear from the roads even if a law was ever put into effect.
There ARE laws to prohibit installing certain lights over a certain brightness and installed.. problem is that the law isn't enforced. I mean certainly not as much as illegally lowered cars, illegal tail and turn signals etc. I don't understand what you're talking about.
If there was a definitive ENFORCED law that clearly regulated headlight standards, the people abusing them would be caught... regardless of whether the lights are stock or aftermarket.
And as for the on, off, on, off effect of street lights ... I like the constant strobing of the lights. At night when it's late and I'm tired... it reminds me I'm still moving :D
A month ago, I drove in a rented Mercury Sable which had an automatic & incremental rear view dimmer. That thing was awesome! I could actually see at night.
Incidentally, to those who want to be heard... You can file a complaint with the National Highway Traffic Safety Association at http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/... If enough people complain, they'll eventually get around to it I guess... but as with all things government, red tape usually takes a long time.
Also, if you ever spot a car with illegally modified head lights then actually you maybe able to sic highway patrol on them. Call the cops and make those suckers PAY to get their expensive "solar flare" bulbs back down to stock. :D
I've heard european lamps on average are rated at a lower brightness to US lamps. If I was feeling assy I'd say something about the american mindset, and maybe take a crack at the president.
burgundy, I do that sun sneeze thingy too. If I remember my Bill Nye the Science Guy it has something to do with melanocytes.
well it just about gives me an epileptic siezure, and makes me want to go out of my way to run them down.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
You're the first person who I've ever seen have the sun sneezing thing too.
Usually for me...it's like if I need to sneeze but I can't, or the urge goes away, I can look up at the sun and sneeze instantly. Very odd.
I am sensitive to changes in light too, but not to the extent you are, and brights are a bitch.
My night vision is actually pretty damn good. With all the lights turned out I can see just fine. It's contrast that's a problem- if there is a source of light, like say, HEADLIGHTS I can't see anything but the headlights. It's worse in the rain.
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Oh yeah, I fucking HATE it when trucks or vans get behind me. My car is really low to the ground, and if they are behind me the lights shine directly into my rear-view mirror. Oh, the pain.
Because I hate it when people aren't informed about these things. Sorry for being a nerd. :DQuote:
'About 25% of people do actually sneeze when exposed to bright lights like the sun. We do not know exactly why this happens, but it might reflect a "crossing" of pathways in the brain, between the normal reflex of the eye in response to light and the sneezing reflex. There is no apparent benefit from "sun-sneezing", and it probably is nothing more than an unimportant (but annoying) holdover of evolution...
In the pupillary light reflex, shining a light in the eye causes nerve signals to go from the eye to the brain and then back the eye again, telling the pupil to constrict. In the usual sneeze reflex, tickling the nose causes nerve signals to go from the nose to the brain and then back out to the nose, mouth, chest muscles and everything else involved in the actual sneeze. The key point is that the nerve signals take complicated routes through the brain, but usually the pupillary light reflex and sneeze reflex take different routes. Apparently what happens in sun-sneezers is that shining a bright enough light in the eye ALSO sends nerves signals from the eye to the brain and then back out to the nose, mouth and chest.'
Please do. I'd agree with you on both counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by 680x0
I sneeze in the sun, as well. It's happened as far back as I can remember. The only problem is, I tend to sneeze very violently, and sometimes upwards of 6 in a row. That makes me really dizzy. I was driving on the interstate a few years ago, and sneezed really hard 6 times. I had to pull over because I thought I was going to pass out. Wheeee!
oh yeah, the mutli-hit sun sneeze! I always wear tinted riding goggles on my bike, but you really look like an ass coming out of a crowded lecture hall and emitting a quick, high-pitched series of sneezes. nothing impresses the ladies like the inability to walk into the sunshine without screeching "bleh-chu blehhhh-CHU! bleh... bleh... BLEHCHU!" like some kind of reverse pokemon that causes itself to go into seizures.
We are all nerds here. When you reach my age, you accept it and just won't care anymore. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
I do this too, except, I kind of enjoy it. Feels like I just expelled some old bottled-up tickle or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
Me too. I just thought it was my poor eyes getting older and more sensitive. Now I realize that people are just assholes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
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Originally Posted by 680x0
a sneeze is very similiar to an orgasm. It's proven
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Originally Posted by 680x0
I don't know how a sneeze could be a good thing when all your control goes out of whack.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
As far as brights go, I find a useful trick by hitting mine for a sec and the other guy usually takes that as a sign to shut his down. Normally someone would be either drunk or stupid to keep his up around my area.
I have the same fucking problem. Anytime I step out of the office around noontime, I'll be hit with one or two sneezes right off.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
True. Sneezing does sometimes make me sticky in the pantalones.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy