Real life is so much brighter than this image shows
Every car is a raised SUV with sun gods for headlights
We need actual automative regulations
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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Having driven 3900 miles for the holidays to see family, 1000%. Regular lights (edit: on modern cars) are too intense but also when did the majority of drivers at night simply never turn off brights? It is fucking maddening!
Their "Safety for me but not for thee." is so incorrect. Everyone is less safe.
Half the time it’s their car auto activating brights
They’re supposed to have sensors that deactivate the brights if it sees oncoming light but they simply don’t work…
Otherwise it’s exactly as you say
Auto brights are so poorly coded, the managers who shipped those projects should be shot into the sun. But driving that long I had a lot of time to observe and ruminate. There are so many cars older than the industry's adoption of auto brights that I'm lead to believe that people just leave them on, period. No cop is going to pull anyone over for it so everyone just does it.
Cop probably cant tell the difference between a new car with normal headlights and an old car with their brights on
Why? He's blinded 😆
No, it’s always older cars like Civics, Corollas and Hyundais with older halogen headlights that are always driving with the high beams on. I flash so many of these morons.
Every car I've been in with them is overzealous in turning off to the point that they're useless with much traffic at all.
It's most likely not auto brights but humans not so brights
🤷♀️ My brother and dad both have cars that don't turn them off properly and they're different makes and models so I dunno
I've toyed with the idea of putting a light bar on the back of my sedan just so I can project the power of the sun back into those huge trucks and suvs that have lights mounted 5 feet up.
Rear fog lights do exist in plenty of models...
Exactly, fucking sucks.
I hope every piece of shit who drives one of those is flayed alive and forced to eat its own fried testicles/labia
Fun fact - most US health insurance doesn't cover eye surgery for astigmatism, but will for cataracts (the same exact surgery).
Makes sense since eye insurance is a separate add on for most plans, or have to be offered through completely different providers... All to just get glasses coverage 😭
The tears don't help.
And will make it worse
Please get some glasses before you kill someone
You think glasses stop this?! Obviously it’d be worse without them but they don’t stop it.
They do, I’m wearing a pair right now.
OK well so am I, have since I was 2, and I’ve always had this issue.
You're supposed to get new glasses every year or so, not keep wearing the ones you've had since you were two! That's your problem right there!
Are you assuming they've aged!?
I know you’re mostly joking, but new glasses every year seems insane to me. I wear mine every day and I probably only get a new pair every 5 years or so.
Do you get your eyes checked yearly? Your prescription will rarely not get worse as you age. It doesn’t get better or just stop deteriorating.
Nah. I know I probably should, but I honestly don’t care that much.
helps some people if they're correctly made
My glasses and contacts correct this. If I look at my rifle sight without, the dot is a star. With correction, perfect dot.
Why would they kill someone?
For fun, usually
Boredom too. And science; can't forget science!
they sell polarized anti-glare night driving glasses for that now, they fit over your glasses
How expensive are those and do insurances cover them?
I get mine from Zenny optical for around $70 a pair. Don't buy glasses from stores. It is a scam run by the shittiest optical company in the world: Luxottica
i just learned about them but they’re like $10 on some web shopping sites….
they’re also supposed to be anti-led headlights
Thank you! We travel hundreds of miles on back country highways at night and I need these. I have some yellow glasses, but don't think they're polarized.
i have Astigmatism and just saw these glasses online a month ago…
i think they were marketed as anti-led anti-glare night glasses… those new headlights are downright dangerous….
Seeing this post and all the comments... I think I need to see an eye doctor. I thought this was normal?
It is normal in that it happens to many people, but it is an issue that can be resolved.
My astigmatism was so bad. I decided to get LASIK and I was told it wouldn't really help those streaks, just with clarity and all that. After getting laser eye surgery it all seemed to have went away, or at least went down to a point I didn't notice any more.
I feel bad for you, but I'm also on those roads and I feel bad for me. Please get glasses or polarizers or something.
Glasses can only do so much.
The real problem is dickheads with lifted trucks and dumbasses putting LED bulbs in incandescent reflector housings.
Me, when my glasses are dirty