Allow me to introduce you to a nifty feature on your car. High beams. Oh, I know you all know you have them, you just don’t seem to know when the frig to turn them off!
Geez people! I know there is little common sense out there, especially when one gets behind the wheel… but turn them off when a car is coming in your direction!
Every morning, Monday to Friday I take 14 down to the 101. It is now always dark when I leave (5:45 am). And almost no one coming up the 14 turns off their high beams when heading toward me! The twists and turns on a dark country road are hard enough to work when a driver CAN see. Use your heads dummies!
Some suggestions for you knobs:
— Coming around a curve or over a blind crest and see some light in the distance? TURN YOUR FRICKEN HIGH BEAMS DOWN!!!!!
— In a queue of three or so and not the first in the queue? TURN YOUR FRICKEN HIGH BEAMS DOWN!!!!! If the person in the front has their brights on, it’ll light your way too and getting high beams in the rear-view is just as dangerous/annoying as the ones coming toward you.
— Driving a big-ass logging truck? You’re a so-called professional driver, act like one! You should know of proper use of your high beams.
Everyday I come close to hitting a ditch because some twit doesn’t turn off their brights. Do they not know how dangerous it is? I guess they just don’t care.
Oh, and can we also make halogen light illegal within city limits? Too much? Okay, fine. —Blinded By The Light…
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.
1,000 meters, is the magic turn off zone. when you are doing 100 or 110, it doesn’t seem like that far, but it is o.p.,you just have to be a little bit more patient.
Turn your high beams on too…..pray you blind them.
Flick yours on and off at ’em
go buy some million candle-power off road lights, flash ’em with those babies and they’ll soon become courteous drivers.
how exactly is two blind drivers any better than one?
1000 meters? That’s 1 km. Did LS mean 100 meters?