Car headlights

There are a fair few left-hand drives on the road these days.  The Law needs to clamp down on people who don't realign their lights for British roads, imo.

4 x 4s

Yes.
Even bike headlights are in on the brightness wars. Had to stop on the Lea Valley recently as couldn't see the edge of the towing path when there was an oncoming cyclist.

YES god forbid u have a bit of muck on the windscreen that can add to even worse problems people with these blue HID headights the worse culprits,

Blue flashing lights on ambulances etc, deffo too bright

Get stuck behind one for a while and takes a while for my eyes to get readjusted

Could cause an accident

And then there are those that tilt their dipped beam headlights to the upper position... must think to themselves 'these dipped beams are great, aren't they?'

You deffo don't want to get a blown headlight when making the journey from Sheffield to Manchester over the Pennine pass late a night

The main thing to do when faced with these bright lights is never to look directly at them - even briefly - or if you get the urge, at least squint majorly!

Sounds obvious & most will know this but plenty peeps are tempted and become temporarily blinded, as per mecca's post.

Blue flashing lights on ambulances etc, deffo too bright

I agree with that completely. I watched an ambulance coming down the road yesterday and though how many flashing light do they need in order to stand out?
They must be able to see them from the moon.

Very dangerous indeed to oncoming traffic.

Had a car with Xenon's about 8 years ago and immediately started getting flashed by oncoming cars.  Got lights adjusted by main dealer and now you can hardly see to drive because the lights on dip hardly reach far enough to drive 50 mph, put them on beam and they just shine up into the hedgerows.

Recently, I find I am blinded if I look in the rear view mirror at night, particularly bad if raining and a motorway with traffic in all 3 lanes.  Find it difficult to switch between looking at rear view mirror and forwards again.

Makes driving at night very hard work.

100% here - Room 101 stuff.
And the worst of all - where I live anyway - Tractors with two beams close together in the middle and nothing to suggest there's a six foot high tyre lurking half way across your side of the road. How is that legal??

I've bought some anti dazzle glasses off Ebay which help a bit but I still find it difficult to see the kerb at night.

Good topic bix....

I hate driving at night these days, but the worst bad experience I had was in Leeds, for the first time for ages, in a downpour
and sod all idea where I was.

Couldn't see road markings, and terrified of switching lanes, with other drivers giving no quarter!

Other than that, in daylight, are the ignoramus bikers with million candle lasers that are so blinding as any other traffic, including other bikers,
cannot be seen at all!

I fully understand that the want to be seen, but daytime running lights are perfectly acceptable!

Surely they must know, so if they do it's ridiculous and, if they don't know, it's equally ridiculous!!!

@bix....I got two sets of polarising lenses. to be worn over prescription spcs.

One set are just clip on, and flip up or down, and the others are full sized, to be worn over prescription specs.

Both are useless, and the first ones just will not become optically clean, and the others have a bright orange tint, but neither of them have any polarising effect at all!

Back in the day, I wore polarising ones all the time, and they were brilliant!

usually but not always people who drive big cars  - u no the 1s

trilby22    12 Dec 17 04:57 
The main thing to do when faced with these bright lights is never to look directly at them - even briefly - or if you get the urge, at least squint majorly!

Sounds obvious & most will know this but plenty peeps are tempted and become temporarily blinded, as per mecca's post.



Just flash your main beam at them !

What good will that do if the lights are aligned for driving on the wrong side of the road?

I saw a car once with a headlight fitted to its rear bumper.
I suppose If anyone came up behind them with their headlights on they'd get a full beam back for their negligence.