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Coming from Europe, I've been surprised as how many places in the US that don't have streetlights at all. Driving between Maryland and Virginia, there are 4-lan
by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Coming from Europe, I've been surprised as how many places in the US that don't have streetlights at all. Driving between Maryland and Virginia, there are 4-lane highways that are completely dark for long stretches at a time. I'm assuming this is a money-saving concern, since the US has such a huge amount of area to cover.
Back in many native, smaller habitat, I've only rarely encountered this kind of darkness, and it's usually on small, isolated country roads. When I got my license, my instructor's company had a special spot, an hour outside the city, where they always went to for dark driving lessons, because almost all of the road network is (exceedingly well) illuminated.
- web007 9y agoI prefer the situation of no lights other than headlights. I'm from Maryland, and my neighborhood is off a country road with a single streetlight at the head of the neighborhood. If the weather is doing anything (fog, rain, snow) even a little bit then it's completely awful to drive through that intersection. If the light didn't exist, I could keep my vision adaptation the same before / during / after, and could compensate for inclement weather the whole time. As-is, I go from very-dark to bright-light and back to very-dark over a hundred feet or so, and it makes it very hard to adapt safely.
- csomar 9y agoI'm used to driving in dark highways. It sounds reasonable as long as these highways are far from populated areas, have the borders well protected from jumping animals and are regularly maintained for holes and possible garbage.