People who high beam me.

[arrabil]

I bet Roy can concur... I would say 30% of everyone on the road drives with their high beams on ALL THE TIME. They'll even put them on at 8pm before the sun has set.

Can't figure out why other than to think so many people here are city transplants and aren't used to driving winding roads and corn fields with no overhead lighting. Slowing down isn't an option for them, obviously. But blinding oncoming traffic is.

I have a solution to the ones that come up behind me, but flashing the ones coming at you is a lost cause. They know their highs are on, they don't need you to tell them.

 

[Willl]

Received a traffic violation once for "Failure to dim headlamps".

Driver coming towards me flashed his high beams at me a few times, I mumbled to self "what the heck this knuckle head doing ?".

Just as we pass, he hits the colored lights. Evidently, my high beam indicator in the dash was toast. My bad.

Personally, I don't play the 'high beam' war.
Never thought it was a good for 2 blind people heading towards each other at high speed. Bad enough there's already one behind the wheel in my car.

 

[RoyJackson]

I bet Roy can concur... I would say 30% of everyone on the road drives with their high beams on ALL THE TIME. They'll even put them on at 8pm before the sun has set.

Yep...at least 30%. I run high beams on secondary and rural roads, but I drop to low beam as soon as I see oncoming traffic or I'm approaching someone from the rear. It's courtesy and common sense.

 

[arrabil]

It's courtesy and common sense.

There seems to be less and less of both everyday. The digital age of human relations.

 

[RoyJackson]

There seems to be less and less of both everyday. The digital age of human relations.

Did you notice the decline of courtesy and common sense is a direct correlation with the increased popularity of hydro transmission?

 

[Duffster]

Did you notice the decline of courtesy and common sense is a direct correlation with the increased popularity of hydro transmission?

I hadn't, until now.

 

[Bird]

I would say 30% of everyone on the road drives with their high beams on ALL THE TIME.

Not in my area; too much traffic, I guess. I can remember when there was little enough traffic at night that we used the high beams a great deal, but even on I-30, I-40, and I-81 the last couple of times we drove to West Virginia, there was so much traffic at all hours that high beams could rarely be used. And certainly here in the Dallas area, there's heavy traffic all night now.

 

[arrabil]

Did you notice the decline of courtesy and common sense is a direct correlation with the increased popularity of hydro transmission?

Now that is an interesting hypothesis. I think you deserve and NSF grant to study it.

 

[jenkinsph]

Now that is an interesting hypothesis. I think you deserve and NSF grant to study it.

You never know, the National Sanitary Foundation might be willing to provide a grant to study bullcrap.:laughing:

 

[Green is Keen]

Did you notice the decline of courtesy and common sense is a direct correlation with the increased popularity of hydro transmission?

I must say, that after 42 years of commerical driving, this is indeed true...

I've heard it said, "Can you shift gears, or are you stuck in stupid"...?:confused2: