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When I am cycling at night, I sometimes carry a flashlight to shine at the windscreen of people who can't not blind me.
by totetsu 6y ago
When I am cycling at night, I sometimes carry a flashlight to shine at the windscreen of people who can't not blind me.
- ARandomerDude 6y agoAre you sure temporarily blinding someone coming toward you in a vehicle is a wise tantrum to throw?
- BoorishBears 6y agoEh, as someone who rides a road bike pretty often, this is par for the course for the "community" We should be glad the kind of person who would go out of their way to endanger themselves and others with something as useless and petty as... retaliatory light flashing is on a bicycle instead of a 2 ton vehicle. The people who give cyclists a bad name are never self-aware
- totetsu 6y agoI'm not trying to be petty, or throw a tantrum. I'm not talking a 10000s of lumens here. It's just the only sure fire way to educate the driver about the problem fast enough. It usually works out that we both stop shining lights in each others eyes, and and pass safer and wiser.
- usrusr 6y agoYes. A four-wheeler will just go on straight ahead in a stable and predictable manner when I stop giving control input. But a two wheeler will quickly come off course when I lose visual feedback because it's a dynamic balance that requires continuous recalibration. It's a very good idea to signal that you are getting blinded.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoThese are very good points.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoAlso appropriate for the jackwads who compulsively & pointlessly slam on their high-beams, whenever their headlight field captures a pedestrian (who's on the sidewalk, way away from the road). The Astrolux MF01 was all but made for this. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32976932742.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32976932742.html
- wastedhours 6y agoYou say that, but I was once driving on a dark, national limit road through the forest one night - and had turned off my full beams because I'd just passed a run of cars coming the other way. I caught a glimpse of a pedestrian and instinctively turned them back on just to catch a glimpse of a (complete f'king moronic) person in full black pushing his bike (with no reflectors) in the road talking to the pedestrian. After that, as a pedestrian I'd rather have a full beam to the face than think a car might not have seen me, even if I'm safely on the pavement.
- Avamander 6y agoPeople not wearing reflectors while wearing black is so silly.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago>as a pedestrian I'd rather have a full beam to the face than think a car might not have seen me, even if I'm safely on the pavement. This sounds suspiciously like "There Are No Bad Safety Measures" How are you at risk from a driver not seeing you, if you aren't anywhere near the road? If a driver has to travel that far off the roadway to reach you, that driver's issue isn't low visibility.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoPSA: A situation is what it is, not what it could be. Another term for "What It Could Be" is "What It Isn't".
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- belorn 6y agoI would start with lobbying politicians to change the traffic laws and driving license exams that explicitly tells drivers (at least in my country) to not turn of the headlights for cyclists and pedestrians. Disobeying traffic laws in order to be nice is tricky, especially if doing so has an remote possibility to cause an accident. The blame will always be on the driver.