Do you use your car's high beams more then average non flashaholics?

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After being told that she has never seen anyone use their high beams as often as I…

I wouldn’t say more, since I’m super conscious about blinding other people so I only really turn it on when I absolutely have to.

Car's high beams are fairly dim anyways. Doesn't impress me. 8)

So: "Not so much".

Here E1320 describes what a real flashaholic does. ;)

At night time, I have my high beams on as often as possible. And no, I’m not one of those annoying drivers who forgets to turn them off when other cars are around. I’m highly attentive in that respect. In fact flicking them on and off at just the right moment has become a part of the art of excellent driving for me. I even do it for pedestrians, and couples saying romantic goodbyes outside houses (which seems to happen a lot around here for whatever reason).

So yeah, I certainly seem to like my high beams more than the average person, but that was true long before I became a flashlight enthusiast.

+1

The more I get into lights, the more I notice the headlights of others and the more I notice others’ and play with the truck lights at work. Mine are dim and I never use them. And I’m too conscious of oncoming traffic being blinded. Have a friend with 15k super LEDs which he goes on and on about. In my view, all but the new ones are not worth it.

Out here in the country, high beam is normal unless there is oncoming traffic.

Too many kangaroos, cattle, sheep, farm machinery, fallen branches, loose gravel, potholes to be otherwise.

Anything that helps you see danger further away is a safety feature, its made to be used.

Low beam only in town. Compulsory here. High is a waste of time where there are street lights anyway.

P.S. I really hate when other drivers flick their high beam on just before you pass each other, grrrr

I only use them in the country without traffic.

I don’t like when others use them even on my back, so I try to be conscious of that.

When I head down south (rural) I wear em out. In urban environment, never.

Keith

Seeing as how everyone around here has their high beams on at night (even with cars around), during the day, when it is raining, when it’s not raining, or any other time they are in the car because they are morons…no, I don’t use my high beams nearly as much.

I’m going to invent a device that breaks filaments because I’m tired of being blinded by retards around here riding around with their high beams on. I would rather be on a road full of Hondas with crappy 9000000K HID kits than have to deal with these people around here with their high beams on all of the time. It is even annoying in broad daylight to have some ass come towards me with their highs on.

I do use mine in the rural parts when no one is around. I have installed some HIR 9011s in place of the stock 9005s and it is a huge improvement. Not enough of an improvement to make the morons that ride around with their on turn them off but I can see better.

I use them as little as possible, mostly to flash other ignorant drivers who are blinding everyone. My car has HIDs and they’re fairly bright as-is. I get flashed once in awhile and I always try to flash back to let them know that I’m not running my brights all the time.

Me too. I hate when some loser is right on my tail with his brights on, especially on the highway or some road where I am stuck too by the car infront of me.

Its very rude inconsiderate and annoying and causes road rage to drive behind someone with the high-beams on and blind them. My rear-view has a special tilt feature where it diffuses high-beams so I don’t get blinded but its still really annoying.

If no one is around like on a desolate road who cares do whatever, but dont blind other people please.

I had cataracts develop quite young — tolerable in daylight but, by the time the first one was “ripe” enough to operate on the eye, at night any point of light became a starburst.

Moonlight — no problem seeing the road.
Tail lights — two red fireworks stars.
Headlights — four overlapping huge white glares, no clue where the oncoming car or the lane markers were.
Hold the wheel steady and hope the road is straight ….

Accident scenes — 4th of July red, orange, blue, and white starbursts all over the place.

I passed my driver’s license re-test with my vision that bad. No problem.
No depth perception at night with one eye closed, or complete glare with both open, take your choice.

People with vision that bad are allowed to be out driving.

And with aging, that kind of sensitivity to glare happens to a lot of older people anyhow.

Now I’m older — I’ve had the cataract that got really bad replaced with a plastic lens — but I have typical older eyes

So — nitwits with blue-glare headlights do still disappear (along with the road lane marker lines)

But people who use low beams and have reasonable headlights — them, I can see coming and I can see where the lane marker lines are.

So - I use my low beams.

Figure one in ten or more of the oncoming vehicles is likely driven by someone who can’t see much of anything at night.
I’m amazed how lucky we are.

One word - DEER. Yes, I use the heck out of my high beams. Always careful to dim them for oncoming traffic but switch right back to high beams the moment they pass. I do not use them if I am behind someone though. There are more good reasons to use the high beams than to not use them.

I use them when there are no street lights. On my work commute, there are miles of farmland that are planted in corn and other stuff this time of year , so there are lots of wild animals about. There are also cattle pastures and sometimes there are cows in the road. I make sure and dim my lights for oncoming traffic as well as whenever there are houses near the road or when following other vehicles. Not using high beams it silly since there are deer, coyotes, dogs, cats, rabbits, skunks, opossum,raccoons and other critters all over the place out here.
My pet peve for night driving is whenever some idiot in a jacked up truck gets behind my car and his low beams are shining down right into my mirrors. When that happens, I will just pull into the next available street and let them pass. It’s funny but young rednecks here seem to think that they have to pull up right behind anyone in front of them no matter the speed. There have been lots of times when I have pulled over to let them go by and then I will catch up to them shortly thereafter. These kids today! lol :bigsmile:

+1 High beam issues really do push me into the road rage spectrum sometimes. When cars are coming at me I always dim just before they crest the last rise or round the last curve. Why people wait until they hit your eyeballs before they dim I will never understand. If I can see a cars tail lights I do not use my high beams.
The oncoming guy who turns his brights on just before he gets past me has an unhealthy and naive reliance on society’s artificial protections.

I probably use high beams more than I use to which I think has something to do with my getting older.

My ordinary beams seem way weak to me and I dont see very well :o , so I use high beams as much as I can.

I answered “perhaps”.
I’m quite a fast shifter, when it comes to high beam. I never use them near other cars, naturally but I do use them even at a short distance between oncoming traffic (not too short).

Tested E’s trick with DRY back in the winter.
Yes, it blends………… :wink:
Beam pattern is not so optimal for driving, though but you can definitely see with it.