Headlights

Strider590

Tony69 wrote: »

Have you ever tried to drive whilst sat on an inflated balloon but then making sure you don't burst the balloon?

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Does a space hopper count?

Delivery_Driver

Someone had to .

reheat

I drive a car, do a lot of cycle commuting, and used to ride a mororbike. Quite a long time ago now, I realised how confusing lights can be a night when you cannot really see the vehicles, only the lights.

As a motor cyclist I had the inevitable scares with cars pulling out in front of me at night. Then one day as car driver I almost did the same thing to a motor cyclist, and learnt of a really confusing optical illusion it's easy to get caught out by. I was at a junction waiting to pull out, and approaching from my right was a set of car lights, but still a good distance away - more than enough for me to safely pull out. But just as I started to do so I realised something weird had happened to one of the car lights - I couldn't suss what was happening, but stopped trying to pull out, I'd only moved a few inches anyway. I then realised that there was actually a motorbike some distance in front of the car, and was dead in line with one of the car headlights, so all I saw was two headlights. I then realised this was very likely what had happened to me when riding a motor bike at night. (Mind you, I've also had plenty of occasions with people doing the same thing in broad daylight).

andrew-the-cat

scooby75 wrote: »

Probably the same kind of idiots who think it's a good idea to drive with a broken headlight and so to drive with fog lights on as if the one working one blinding everyone else makes up for the non-working light.

Fog lights don't blind people in good weather, it's only in rain/ice/snow or when there is a lot of standing water that there becomes a problem with glare from them.

I think the issue of the beam pattern of fog lights being completely different to dipped beam headlights is more important, especially to the driver of the defective vehicle. I would never drive down an unlit road with only fog lights on, they do a great job of lighting up the road to the immediate front and side of you, but don't really give you ANY visibility of the road ahead of you. A Russian colleague of mine has a Hyundai Coupe, a couple of times he has driven behind me either entering or leaving work and I noticed one of his dipped lights is out and he drives with the fog lights on all time time, then more recently BOTH of his dipped lights are out and only his side lights and fog lights are on. I mentioned to him at work that his headlights were out, but his reply was "it's ok I've got bottom spot lights" and he was totally happy with it.

gord115

Strider590 wrote: »

??? :rotfl:


Does a space hopper count?

Or the ex-girlfriend