Turn your lights on!

[geuben]

The dash illumination barely changes with the lights on or off in my car. That plus the fact the there are daytime running lights on the front illuminating things a little means that I often forget to turn my lights before setting off (usually realise after a few seconds).

The daytime running lights will mean there will be lights on the front of the car, but non on the rear.

 

[Akagi]

Seen at least 3 or 4 people with no lights on in the pitch blackness... I signal for them to turn their lights on by turning my lights off, on, off, on in quick succession, and they all got the hint.

 

[thebennyboy]

What - with a 5 year old, a 1 year old and no bus service where we live? That'll work well

Well... Umm... start your own bus company?

 

[haaammit]

Well... Umm... start your own bus company?

With a car from 1994? That'll work well

 

[Mr Gimp]

I drive a Volvo. Lights on all the time!

 

[nutsnut]

The people Pull over on the the side of the road facing oncoming traffic and leave their head lights on really cheese me off.

 

[mrk]

auto lights ftw!

For me its kinda the opposite.. my drive to work and back is all B road, i dont finish work until 6pm. The one thing that gets on my boobies is fools drive with their fog lights on!

I was under the impression that fog lights were to be used when it was actually FOGGY with limited visibility..

Auto lights in cars, for the times when your eyes don't work but you still need to be somewhere!

 

[itchy]

The people Pull over on the the side of the road facing oncoming traffic and leave their head lights on really cheese me off.

Yer that rattles my noggin!

The new fandangled xenon headlights also drive me mad, i cannot see a bloody thing when they approaching me, its like high beam to me!

 

[mrk]

Yer that rattles my noggin!

The new fandangled xenon headlights also drive me mad, i cannot see a bloody thing when they approaching me, its like high beam to me!

They must have them angled incorrectly then! I've stood about 20 feet in front of my car at an angle common of an oncoming driver with the xenons on and at normal seated height they do not dazzle at all. I had to kneel down to a dog's head level in order to get glare!

This brings me to the question, are you a dog?

 

[TheVoice]

Notice this a lot up here. "I'm not turning the lights on yet, I can still see shapes..." Then when they do it's just sidelights. Yeah, great. There is no good argument I can think of for driving on sidelights only.

Cars with just DRLs on are becoming more common too, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they don't have any rear lights on.

No use relying on auto lights either, quite often I find I need to override mine when it's overcast although I'm beginning to get into a habit of just using them any time for the sake of the extra visibility vs all the newer cars having DRLs.

 

[Ephemera]

Over the past month I've noticed a number of drivers that think it's fine to not have lights on at night, usually around 7-8pm. These are usually taxi drivers strangely enough.

We also seem to get a lot of people thinking full beam is best beam and as such blind everyone.

 

[Mynight]

My biggest gripe is full beams glaring in your mirrors or the standard imbecile who either set their lights to highest elevation or have fitted the bulbs incorrectly(how on earth do you even do that...).

Bit of a weird query but has anyone else experienced problems with the new high brightness LED traffic lights? Couple have gone up in my area and they dazzle me quite severely. Almost impossible to see if any prats about to walk across the road on green.

 

[Antony101]

My biggest gripe is full beams glaring in your mirrors or the standard imbecile who either set their lights to highest elevation or have fitted the bulbs incorrectly(how on earth do you even do that...).

Bit of a weird query but has anyone else experienced problems with the new high brightness LED traffic lights? Couple have gone up in my area and they dazzle me quite severely. Almost impossible to see if any prats about to walk across the road on green.

A set of extremely bright LED traffic lights got put up on a pitch black country road near me when some roadworks were done. Was like hell sat waiting for them to change so I could drive off. 4 way lights to so I was sat there ages.

 

[Energize]

I see loads of cars with just one light working.

Also so many car drivers don't seem to dim their lights for cyclists, as if we don't need to see going down the road at 30mph. I've had to flash my headlight so many times to signal drives to dim their lights...

Also why do pedestrians at night dress in black, you can barely see them.

 

[Tefal]

I have seen an increasing number of people with no lights on though, even after it is completely dark, makes me wonder how they don't notice how they can't see where they're going.

they're usually too busy looking at thier phone to notice they cant see the road.

I'd happily see using your phone while driving punished more severely than drunk driving least the ****ed people are actually looking at the road.



or the other thing i notice is the amount of people with one badly adjusted headlight that is just completely blinding.

If you're too incompetent to set your headlight properly when you replace it just go to a ****ing garage.

 

[Tefal]

They must have them angled incorrectly then! I've stood about 20 feet in front of my car at an angle common of an oncoming driver with the xenons on and at normal seated height they do not dazzle at all. I had to kneel down to a dog's head level in order to get glare!

This brings me to the question, are you a dog?

some people stick lights with a different emitter pattern/location in their standard housings thus completely buggering everything the light bulb and reflector designers set up.

 

[Freefaller]

Yer that rattles my noggin!

The new fandangled xenon headlights also drive me mad, i cannot see a bloody thing when they approaching me, its like high beam to me!

They're not new though HID lights are almost standard equipment now on many European marques.

 

[trickycurve]

I just facepalm at people using foglights unnecessarily, but it doesn't bother me as such.

What annoys me is the vast number of people who don't dip their headlights. Fully elevated headlights are far more of a nuisance than foglights. I don't think I've ever actually raised mine, and whenever I'd need to I'm usually driving around at such a time and in such places where flicking my full beam on momentarily (and obviously turning off when I see the glimmer of oncoming headlights) is significantly more useful and less of a distraction than trying to find the knob that changes my headlight elevation.

 

[SickAsAParrot]

My new pet hate is Nissan Jukes, with the fog lights invariably on that's three sets of lights all at different heights.

You're driving the worlds ugliest car, why would you want to draw attention to it?

I had a great idea this morning, you know those inkjet printers that work from a distance and spray sell-by dates on cans? Well i'm going to fit a giant one on the side of my car. It would only need two buttons, one prints 'FOG LIGHT IDIOT' and the other 'I'M ON MY PHONE'. In indelible paint.

 

[mjt]

Can a mod please move this to the motoring section?

Surely it's better here, as people in Motors tend to know what they're doing when it comes to cars and driving..