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In driving school we were taught to look at the right shoulder when headlights are coming at you like that. Keeps you from being dazzled and keeps the car in th

In driving school we were taught to look at the right shoulder when headlights are coming at you like that. Keeps you from being dazzled and keeps the car in the lane.

SoftTalker 3y ago
Yes, I do that, but some of these new headlights are so bright it's only somewhat effective. In some cases it's people who have installed aftermarket super-bright lights, most of which don't comply with DOT regulations in the slightest but they are still allowed to be sold "for off-road use only." But often enough it seems to be new cars with the stock headlights from the manufacturer.
- kjkjadksj 3y ago
  My car has a setting with the lights where the brights are always on and theoretically auto dim when a car approaches. I never use it because brights lack peripheral view which is more important than straight on with a lighted road, but I wonder if a lot of people leave it on and the dimming setting just doesn’t work that well for real world conditions.
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Whoa — that's simple and brilliant. (Obvious in hindsight, I suppose, like many good ideas.) I do something similar intuitively, but I'm going to start looking at the shoulder much more explicitly now. "Driving school" wasn't a standardized thing back when I got my license — in many places, you can just stroll in, pass the driving test, and be on your way. So I guess I missed all the interesting tips they might share in a formal education environment... Any other learnings from driving school that you find yourself using often?
- kjkjadksj 3y ago
  Well I did driving school in the US. You had to do it unless you wanted to wait till you were 18 to drive. Lets see we discussed how liability vs comprehensive insurance worked, how stopping distances relate to speed, certain state specific laws that might get you a ticket for not knowing them, plus a lot of in car experience building comfort driving at highway speeds with an instructor, or how to parallel park and ace the maneuverability. Stuff like changing tires and very basic maintenance like checking fluid levels too. This was over a decade ago so they probably covered more that I can’t recall. I will say I am a head and shoulders better parallel parker than a lot of other adults I know. Some people are in their 30s and still do not know how to parallel park, give up, even have me do it with their own car sometimes.

In driving school we were taught to look at the right shoulder when headlights are coming at you like that. Keeps you from being dazzled and keeps the car in the lane.

SoftTalker 3y ago

Yes, I do that, but some of these new headlights are so bright it's only somewhat effective. In some cases it's people who have installed aftermarket super-bright lights, most of which don't comply with DOT regulations in the slightest but they are still allowed to be sold "for off-road use only." But often enough it seems to be new cars with the stock headlights from the manufacturer.

kjkjadksj 3y ago
My car has a setting with the lights where the brights are always on and theoretically auto dim when a car approaches. I never use it because brights lack peripheral view which is more important than straight on with a lighted road, but I wonder if a lot of people leave it on and the dimming setting just doesn’t work that well for real world conditions.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago

Whoa — that's simple and brilliant. (Obvious in hindsight, I suppose, like many good ideas.) I do something similar intuitively, but I'm going to start looking at the shoulder much more explicitly now. "Driving school" wasn't a standardized thing back when I got my license — in many places, you can just stroll in, pass the driving test, and be on your way. So I guess I missed all the interesting tips they might share in a formal education environment... Any other learnings from driving school that you find yourself using often?

kjkjadksj 3y ago
Well I did driving school in the US. You had to do it unless you wanted to wait till you were 18 to drive. Lets see we discussed how liability vs comprehensive insurance worked, how stopping distances relate to speed, certain state specific laws that might get you a ticket for not knowing them, plus a lot of in car experience building comfort driving at highway speeds with an instructor, or how to parallel park and ace the maneuverability. Stuff like changing tires and very basic maintenance like checking fluid levels too. This was over a decade ago so they probably covered more that I can’t recall. I will say I am a head and shoulders better parallel parker than a lot of other adults I know. Some people are in their 30s and still do not know how to parallel park, give up, even have me do it with their own car sometimes.