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Do you have to concentrate on steering so much that you can't flick a light stalk? Think you'd be better off with a bus pass lol.
How I kept calm I'm not sure...
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Do you have to concentrate on steering so much that you can't flick a light stalk? Think you'd be better off with a bus pass lol.
Not really,
There are too many drivers out there that forget to turn their high beams off, and I have lost count the amount of times I have been dazzled by oncoming drivers. This IMO is far more dangerours as for that moment in time, my vision is completely screwed, and is also screwed for a few seconds after the car has passed while my eyes adjust back to the low light conditions.
Therefore, if it's a road I know well enough. I see no need to keep flicking the high beam on and off. Don't think anyone in here can garauntee they never fail to turn off their high beams. Unless you have a log book of every time you have flicked them on, with a camera showing the car coming past is not blinded.
Someone else beat you to it. I've not got a CTRO login but there was aparrently a 9 page thread over there saying it was me that was in the wrong for trying to overtake a CTR. I think CTRO was the source of the inane comments on YouTube.
Type-R Owners was a lot more on the side of reason, the thread there is a mere 7 pages and almost entirely full of condemnation/glad to be rid of their EP3 so they aren't tarred with the same brush as plebs like this.
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It's fairly easy to avoid blinding people with full beams. You can tell when a car is approaching before they are in view, and you can then instantly flick your high beams off. Infact, it comes as second nature. You just... do it, surely?
Are you one of these people that drive around with badly adjusted dipped beams?
I try and cast as much light on the road as possible, regardless of how well I know it.
You get a lot of idiots up this way who speed up when you overtake them, had a situation that very nearly ended badly a few years back due to some idiot doing the very same thing.
So you've not got enough skills to turn a wheel, AND remember to flick a switch every now and again?
+1 for you getting a bus pass, you don't appear to have what it takes for this whole driving thing...
[TW]Fox;20871992 said:
I live in Northumberland, you having a laugh.....
Why can't you accept a view. This has nothing to do with driving ability whatsoever, and to say you cover yourself for any inevitable hazard by having you high beams on 100% of the time is ludacris.
This guys states he knows the road well, i felt this wasn't the case as he flicks high high beams on far too much for my liking. This is my view, like it or love it you ****
You're wrong, on both points.
Good explanation. I'm wrong your right, of course. Therefore I take back everything I have ever said.
To most people, it's far from a difficult thing to do.
I just... just... what? I don't even...
Are you for real? You don't use your high beams because other road users occasionally don't turn them off?
Here's a tip - in the early part of the video above you will see what to do with your main beams when a car is approaching you. Note the fact that my main beams were off a good chunk before you could see the car - this was because I spotted the hedge was being illuminated before I could see the car. You don't need line of sight to see if another car is approaching you, there is an absolute wealth of information coming your way long before you can actually see the car.
You even get clues through the hedges.
Myself, and many others have already proven you wrong on both points, you're just too stubborn to admit it.
Off to hand myself into the police for my dangerous driving. Should have known to always have my high beams on when there are zero street lights on every single road I have ever driven on.
However did I pass my driving test
However did I pass my driving test
Even if he can only gaurantee it 99%, it's still 99% better than driving around with dipped lights all the time.
Also driving with full beam on helps the drivers behind you, who might not be familiar with the road.
Night driving isn't part of the test, so yeah.
I am having difficulty even partaking in this debate as I find it so utterly illogical I cannot see where you are coming from. It is common sense - dark road, no cars = full beam. It's rudimentry that even my gran knows to do that for goodness sake. The fact anyone could actually CHOOSE to avoid using full beam is just.. madness.
Using your high beam lots isn't a sign of not knowing a road. It's a sign of knowing how to drive at night.
Why are you always so lovely in every thread you post in?
I just... just... what? I don't even...
Are you for real? You don't use your high beams because other road users occasionally don't turn them off?
Here's a tip - in the early part of the video above you will see what to do with your main beams when a car is approaching you. Note the fact that my main beams were off a good chunk before you could see the car - this was because I spotted the hedge was being illuminated before I could see the car. You don't need line of sight to see if another car is approaching you, there is an absolute wealth of information coming your way long before you can actually see the car.
You even get clues through the hedges.
Wind you neck in would you. I clearly said in my post that you didn't affect other road users yet you feel the need to bring this up.
My point was, I only ever use high beams when the road is unkown. You stated you know the road well but still used your high beams a lot. This let to my opinion you don't.