On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 6:56:08 AM UTC-4, sms wrote:
On 7/23/2018 7:15 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 5:38:23 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/23/2018 2:25 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
I'm often blinded at night by very bright bicycle strobe lights. I also often get blinded by those blue tinted super bright car headlights.

I get very irritated by motorists who refuse to dim their lights.
Unfortunately, sometimes when I'm riding at night an oncoming motorist
will actually turn on his brights. I don't think it's harassment. I
think it's "What the heck is that??" coupled with low IQ.

I now do much more night driving on rural roads than I used to. ISTM the
worst headlight offenders are pickup truck drivers. Their lights are
high, they seem to refuse to dim them more than most, and they very
often have auxiliary driving lights that they also leave on. "MFFY."

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- Frank Krygowski

What I was referring to are those cars with very bright blue lights that are driving IN TOWN on well lit roads. I've been so blinded by some of those lights that i couldn't see parked cars ahead of me on my side of the road. Thus I had to either slow way down or even stop. Seems that lumen wars aren't restricted to makers of bicycle lights.

Cheers


There is no need for those vehicle lights on well lit roads but once the
vehicle has them as standard equipment there's no way to select the
brightness. Audi has a technology for headlights that would solve this
problem, but it's not legal in the U.S.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a4093/revolutionary-audi-headlight-tech-banned-in-us/.

Vehicle drivers will often activate their high beams when they glimpse
an unlit or poorly lit pedestrian or cyclist on the road. They're often
not sure what it is when they first see movement. A cyclist, a
pedestrian, an animal, etc.. The way to avoid this, as a cyclist anyway,
is to use adequate lighting, not just the legal minimum. Pedestrians
walking on unlit roads would benefit from at least a little lighting,
and I do often see this now, but it's not the norm.

The of "low IQ" when a motorist turns on his or her high beams to
determine what is on the road, is laughable. The reality is that the
cyclist should have sufficient lights that the motorist doesn't have to
turn on his or her high beams to figure out that it's a cyclist.
Stubbornly refusing to use adequate lighting says much more about the IQ
of the cyclists than of the motorist!

More utter nonsense from you!

Cheers