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We live in a very rural area, and the most annoying thing is huge pickup trucks with giant light arrays over the cab or on the grill, especially the ones that j
by Scubabear68 3y ago
We live in a very rural area, and the most annoying thing is huge pickup trucks with giant light arrays over the cab or on the grill, especially the ones that just look like a wall of light. The blinding effect is tremendous, and it is doubly dangerous in our area because the deer population have exploded. I don’t know if these are legal or the cops just don’t care, either way people use them with impunity.
I think the use case is supposed to be hunting and camping, but these assholes seem to no blinding everyone around them!
- lobsterthief 3y agoSounds like you need to install an even brighter one and turn yours on to remind them what it’s like
- dboreham 3y agoPhoton pressure sufficient to curtail their forward progress..
- undersuit 3y agoFuck it, show em what a Kubelblitz black hole can do to their chrome bumper.
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- meyum33 3y agoI’ve always thought that we should have a reverse matrix LED headlight: it directs flashing high beam only to incoming cars with flood lights or high beam, while leaving those driving properly unaffected.
- rcyeh 3y agoWe can do this passively with corner cubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
- r721 3y agoThis reminded me of a news story: >A small city in New Zealand plagued by “siren battles” – cars decked out in loudspeakers commonly used in emergency warning systems and often blaring Céline Dion hits – is calling on authorities to step in and end the noise. >The battles are part of a New Zealand subculture where music enthusiasts cover their cars in up to dozens of industrial speakers, loudhailers and sirens, then compete to have the loudest and clearest sounds. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/porirua-siren-...
- lukan 3y ago"The battles are part of a New Zealand subculture where music enthusiasts cover their cars in up to dozens of industrial speakers, loudhailers and sirens, then compete to have the loudest and clearest sounds." Those people ain't "music enthusiasts", they are "noise enthusiasts". Music enthusiasts do not intentionally destroy their ears or those of others.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoNo, no, not Céline Dion! Is that what the US military dished out to Noriega in the Panama invasion? No wonder he surrendered! It was alleged to be 'heavy metal', but is there acoustic evidence? I bet Celine would've got faster results.
- michaelcampbell 3y agoBecause the people who compensate for ??? by buying a humongous mall-crawler truck will totally understand and be sympathetic when having their outrageous "lookit me" type behavior reflected back at them.
- XorNot 3y agoAFAIK they're illegal on public roads. So is using fog lights unless there's actually fog.
- sublinear 3y agoThis is a tricky one to research. From what I can tell (in the USA) it's not necessarily illegal to drive with the fog lights on at all times. The main requirement for all headlights anywhere is that they're positioned and aimed correctly. Specific states or regions may technically have restrictions, but it seems pointless to enforce if it's a stock vehicle that meets the requirements. High beams are way worse than the typical fog lights. I don't think most people should have to worry about their fog lights unless they're aftermarket. Reminds me of those signs that say "no engine braking". They're specifically referring to jake brakes on commercial vehicles, not dropping a gear on a normal car or truck.
- mc32 3y agoIf you're going down a long incline, trucks should use jake brakes. It sucks being behind truckers who only use brakes and the thing overheats so much you can smell it --they're the truckers who end up on the runaway ramps.
- Zak 3y agoI think your comment is attracting downvotes because unmuffled engine brakes are loud, and those signs are usually placed when people live near the road and find the noise obnoxious. I think it doesn't apply to trucks where the compression brake has a muffler.
- justin66 3y agoHigh beams are infinitely more damaging to another driver's vision than fog lamps.
- lttlrck 3y agoFogs lamps are worse for the person using them than oncoming traffic. This is due to the way the light is focused. It's directed downwards to avoid the light reflecting straight back into your eyes off the fog or snow. This is what makes them different. However it affects your ability to see far even if you have your high beams on. I remember reading about this in an article written by a rally driver in ADAC magazine maybe 20 years ago now.
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- robertlagrant 3y ago> Go back to the city Why do you think they're from the city?
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- importantbrian 3y agoThat's wild. I wonder if you just have a couple of jerks in your area. I grew up in a rural area and my parents still live out there, and I cannot ever remember someone driving on the road with their light bars on. I used to have one on my jeep. Anyone who has them knows they're being a jerk if they're driving with it on the road.
- Scubabear68 3y agoJudging by this behavior, some others I won’t go into, and local Facebook wars, we have a significant concentration of jerks without a doubt.
- davkan 3y agoIn the Rockies you see loads of vehicles with light bars. Never see them lit up on the road. Maybe it comes down to local policing? Cops around here aren’t likely to appreciate non-locals driving with lights on. Could just be culture though.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Cops around here aren’t likely to appreciate non-locals driving with lights on. I hope they equally don't appreciate it when locals do the same.
- nyjah 3y agoI was gonna mention the exact same thing. Wild times in big trucks. Their wheels and mirrors all stick out to the edge of the lane too. I find the sales listings on these trucks hilarious tho. They are the ultimate custom McMansions, listed with extremely high premiums for all the custom work, that essentially never sell. If you are in the north a great description to add is “Texas truck” or really any state south of where you are. They also commonly have well over 200k miles. It’s a crazy phenomena.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoThe funny part is you can punch these truck owners right in the daddy issues just by pulling up next to them in a base model truck with actual dirt in the wheel wells and a ladder rack on. Using a truck to do actual work > aftermarket pageantry and they damn well know it.
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoMeh. I know blue collar mexicans who save up and get trucks like that because they like it. Some people just like it.
- nyjah 3y agoForgetfreeman isn’t talking about the blue collar Mexicans… I will say tho, the base model trucks and just about any trucks aren’t made for work anymore. The boxes are like 6ft long as opposed to 10. The tow power on base models isn’t great. Work vehicles today are becoming more and more those vans. Not saying work trucks are obsolete, just they aren’t what they used to be.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoYou aren't wrong. Those of us with work to do will be significantly better off when fashion moves on to some other type of vehicle.
- CraigJPerry 3y agoLight bar money for on road use is misguided money - there isn’t a light solution that can beat night vision systems. You get an infrared camera and on the screen a coloured bounding box is drawn over each identified pedestrian or animal etc. Green no threat, red sounds an audible alarm so you don’t need to drive looking at the screen to get benefit of it. It sees things that just cannot be seen by projecting a light source from near you, no matter how bright. EDIT: see from 2:25 in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqCDjxYFVc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqCDjxYFVc
- paulgerhardt 3y agoUnlike sending engines for cryptographic cyphers across nation state lines, night vision is absolutely one of those things ITAR cares about. And the number of loops holes and exemptions Audi had to apply for made the project financially unprofitable to the point of moving to always on high beam DLP style headlights. Retrofitting one system in my car which had the option code was a yak shave. Most automotive systems get by this by limiting night vision to 8fps(!). Similar to how GPS was limited to 100m accuracy in the first civilian models. What blows my mind is one can get Chinese models off Taobao with 60fps for 1/10th the price of US products like FLIR.
- vigilans 3y agoThat last part would indicate that the restrictions are utterly moronic if one were to reason. At the very least they need to be relaxed so technology that's readily available to end consumers worldwide isn't restricted.
- paulgerhardt 3y agoYes and no. A benefit of those same restrictions means TSMC is building foundries in the US for a change. GaAs sensors are awesome. Combine those chips with ML optimized compute on a silicon interposer and drone warfare gets a hockey stick in adoption. As civilians we get functional self driving cars via trickle down.
- m463 3y agoThe main issue with huge pickups is that the headlights are so high compared to other cars that aiming them down is less useful than cars.
- michaelcampbell 3y ago> cops just don’t care ding ding ding. Not much revenue there, and it's not protecting rich people's wealth, so...
- reggybbq11 3y agoI’m sure more funding will solve the issue
- nozzlegear 3y agoI was blinded to the point of nearly driving off the road by one of these over the holidays here in rural Iowa. It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered someone actually using the light bar at night while driving 60mph down the road. To say that I couldn’t see anything at all is an understatement. I tried to keep my eyes on the road, look down and to the right to avoid the lights, but the closer it got the more my field of view it took up. I genuinely thought he was going to hit us because I couldn’t tell where the truck was at or where my car was at, it was like a train coming down a tunnel.
- _yb2s 3y agoThose are for navigating 4x4 trails in the dark, and are illegal to use on public roads. Where I live many vehicles have them, but I have never once seen them used on a public road.