Headlights. Blinding

[[TW]Fox]

I just use High beam assist

 

[almoststew1990]

Yeah 100m isn't much I got my estimation a bit wrong! I mean more like 300 yards. I'm just thinking about all the times I've seen a deer or bigass owl sat in the road early enough to react because of full beam lights on my many night time trips through the New Forest, where you might only pass a car every couple of minutes.

 

[almoststew1990]

I just use High beam assist

Have I got that?


Meh if I have it is probably broken

 

[rodenal]

No you won't have that.

You should have auto dimming mirror(s) though

 

[Jumper118]

auto dimming mirrors! still cant see where i'm going though because my lights are pointing down way too much

 

[XeNoN89]

I have auto dimming mirror which helps, I do get flashed often though so my lights must be pretty bright.

 

[Dis86]

I have auto dimming mirror which helps, I do get flashed often though so my lights must be pretty bright.

And yet will do nothing about it I assume?

 

[chaparral]

I simply must invent a device to blind drivers with their own headlights! Anyone got any ideas?

At a guess

By Fitting a mirror in your rear window at the right angle.....
But the angle of the mirror would need to be changed for different height cars/drivers..

Or you could do what I seen done before
Fit Spot lights fitted with 100watt bulbs to the rear your car....

 

[acemastr]

Come over here, absolutely no law on the angle of your beam as long as you have one. HI kits in cheap civics are rather common

 

[Castiel]

Auto dimming mirrors and adaptive headlights ftw

And people still flash you and moan they are blinded by them.

 

[Stringy]

Was driving behind a Focus ST on a dual carriageway last night that slowed down to 40mph (!!!) to drive past a Police car in a layby. I overtook him at 60 thoroughly miffed at his lack of understanding of speed limits to discover that he drove past said rozzers with his fog lights on the entire time (near perfect visibility) - proper face palm.

 

[Semple]

The worst are tall vans and HGV's!!

 

[Yaayuh!]

The worst are tall vans and HGV's!!

Tall vehicles, Range Rovers etc, pretty much all of them blind the **** out of me.

 

[Haggisman]

I was driving home up the M5 at the weekend, and noticed that the worst for these seem to be new Mercedes... do they come factory fitted with poorly adjusted, obnoxiously bright, asbo blue HIDs or something?

 

[Skilid]

I've noticed the amount of people with mis-aligned headlights and illegal HID conversion kits is increasing...

 

[chanjy]

I have auto dimming mirror which helps, I do get flashed often though so my lights must be pretty bright.

Appropriate username

 

[Siliconslave]

Tall vehicles, Range Rovers etc, pretty much all of them blind the **** out of me.

tall cars / vans are a huge pain behind you in traffic when you have a short car I now play with the mirrors in traffic and see if i can blind them back...

 

[kaptainmarc]

People with HID kits need a punch to the nose

There is absolutely no need for lights that bright.
Xenons fair play but HIDS no they should be outright banned

 

[thepharcyde]

Meh adaptive lighting has been around for years

 

[thepharcyde]

People with HID kits need a punch to the nose

There is absolutely no need for lights that bright.
Xenons fair play but HIDS no they should be outright banned

Not quite. A lot of manufactures used HID headlamps that have reflector lenses e.g. Volvo XC90/BMW Mini/Renault/Laguna/Honda Civic/Nissan Skyline.

However they use a special type of bulb that has a 'Anti' glare strip. I question even if the headlamps are even different from their Halogen counterparts.

The bulbs are D2R & D4R.

However a lot of these 'Z'eon kits are poorly made/fitted that they do cause glare.