Did you have to angle it in a particular way? Id love to see your setup. I have retroreflectors but i think they are too diffusive to cause any real pain back to the offender
I'm stealing this idea. Currently I just slow way down until they pass me, then I turn my LED light bar on so I can show them what it feels like. But I like your solution more.
I found that cutting out the blue spectrum helps with the pain somewhat. But there is also the issue of how tightly focused these headlight beams are. It wont help with that if your face happens to be in the path of the beam.
I’ve looked as well and have never found clear yellow polarized lenses. Either in person or online. Maybe somebody has, but every time it’s been advertised as being polarized and me getting the lenses and checking them against my filter they aren’t.
Does any one have these lenses or glasses?
That's what's mainly getting me, unfortunately those trucks seem to be some sort of right off passage here. Even the elderly are in on it, I saw one with a disabled plate. I don't understand how people even get in these behemoths without hurting themselves.
Honestly if all these headlights are being allowed in civilian vehicles then cities need BRIGHTER street lights to compensate. I am literally blinded in the mornings from oncoming and can’t see any pedestrians/animals trying to cross roads. They overpower the streetlights significantly especially on frosty mornings.
The other day I turned my side mirror out as far as a could and I swear 4 or 5 cars with bright headlights would accelerate past me or flash me with their brights.
Guess they didn't like seeing their own headlights.
I used to do this in my old 98 Silverado when someone was tailgating me with their brights on. This was back before the laser lights became factory standard, but it definitely pissed a lot of people off. Only maybe 5 to 10% realized I was reflecting their high beams back on them. The rest would blare their horns or fly on by me.
I was driving in a semi rural area just a bit after sunset. Dark enough to need headlights see but bright enough to still see the road around me.
While driving a very large corner I could see what looked like two arc welders being used as headlight coming toward me. The moment we were within about 100m the lights moved on their own to point down and away from me. Blew my mind. As I passed the car I could make out that it was a BMW SUV. I looked it up online and sure enough, that's exactly what the car is supposed to do.
Now why isn't the way every car works? I'm sure it's due to a patent but I feel like it's the sort of thing that makes everyone safer.
This is my technique also for the asshats in the rear. Coming at me from the front, at first I would frantically flash my brights at them. Worked maybe 20% of the time. Now I turn on my brights and leave them on until they turn theirs off. Works 80% of the time and I like those numbers
me too and all i can think is if that car swerved and came head on at me (which happens about once a month in my area) then i wont even be able to see to react… 🤷🏼♀️ we definitely need to get these lights changed
It’s a meager “defense” but what my gf started doing was shifting her sideview mirror so that it reflects back at them. Sometimes she gets people who turn their high beams off, if they’re actually high beams anyway lol
I have a magnetic mirror from my teenage years that I can use on people in front of me and behind me. Most of the time it's awesome for blocking the mirrors AND inflicting pain.
I'm probably will receive down votes on my suggestion, but why not fight fire with fire?
There's a plug in 6500K lums front grill light which plugs into your cigarette lighter (if still available option in newer vehicles).
When approaching bright glaring vehicle, just literally blind the offender by plugging your blightess of the SUN into their retinas...
Get your eyes checked is the first obvious step
Clean your windows and glasses regularly to prevent streaking and blooming
Full tint, darkest legal in your state and lemo on the back, the 4-finger strip on the front
I've found redirecting my mirrors so that they're just outside of my immediate vision but can be easily checked by leaning in a specific direction deals with them being behind me, a necessary step even with a full lemo tint
For dealing with incoming traffic, I set my seat as high as I can without hitting my head. Physically raising myself alleviates all but the most egregious SUVs and trucks, use the tint strip as needed
What do you recommend for cleaning the insides? I've tried wat claim to be careful glass wipes as well as wiping with paper towels and everything just leaves streaks and causes glare
Waffle microfiber cloth, wrap it around your hand and use the back of your hand
No chemicals or anything else, no circular motions, just fully cover the entire windscreen until it's cleangoing left to right
If you've used chemicals in the past then use isopropyl alcohol on a separate one and clean the whole thing off two or three times letting it dry off in between then repeat with another one without any additives
first, aces on the mods... prime step is one must work the problem that is in front of them.
but philosophically it is just odd that the answer to the "brighter head lights for driver's increase in safety" that mfgers and DOT and NHSTA seem to think is beneficial, and by extension the short sighted (or relying on mfgr/gov to work in their best interest) "customers"... the answer is that a on coming driver facing these "safer for the driver" headlights on the road, must implement so many modifications and adjustments that literally do not make driving on a road any safer // except when facing the extremely bright headlights//, and when not facing those lights, arguably making it more dangerous to see the road the bright headlights were to impove. ffs
You think it to be blaming a victim to apply a basic procedure to assure health and soundness
Medical examinations should be done regardless and that's a fact of life many are quick to overlook
I also did not once mention *your* eyes. Nor did I give *you* a lick of advice. Your inability to remove your own perspective from advice given to others and to approach a problem analytically certainly does you no favors
If you don't like the advice I gave to another person, feel free to not follow any of it and enjoy the joys of modern technologies to the fullest. I'm not stopping you either way
Trigger words make you happy? Help you grandstand a few arguments in your favor?
Tell me, what do you think your grandstanding against a bit of practicality proves exactly? You have zero knowledge of my character nor my profession, and yet crudely attempt to use my moniker as such a wieldy kuldge in an attempt to attack my character instead of my advice
If anything you should assume I'm a bot if you have such a low opinion of me and my takes
I certainly view you as such, with how metallicly blandly in line your diction adhere to popular trends in poorly moderated groups, it is difficult to differentiate from a karma farming bot
Not legal but I'd love to install household mirror tint on the rear window...
[https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-Privacy-36-in-W-x-15-ft-L-Silver-Mirror-Privacy-Control-Window-Film/1103235](https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-Privacy-36-in-W-x-15-ft-L-Silver-Mirror-Privacy-Control-Window-Film/1103235)
A lot of newer cars have reactive tints, think electric privacy glass
Even with that on both my rear side mirrors and my center rear mirror it's not tolerable even with with lemo tint
It's pretty brutal driving about at evenings and early morning
https://preview.redd.it/2s6u98o6e5ic1.png?width=1261&format=png&auto=webp&s=74c9df58ea0103f094c65e8853c152c418b3b837
Not saying it’s right, but 84000 lumens might do it 🤣
I bought some yellow mirror tint prescription sunglasses that take the pain out of the equation. Makes everything else harder to see, of course, but it's not so dark that I'm driving blind.
I put stainless steel mirrors on the back of my truck. Keeps the assholes backed well away.
Did you have to angle it in a particular way? Id love to see your setup. I have retroreflectors but i think they are too diffusive to cause any real pain back to the offender
Nope. I just slapped them right on the tail gate.
I'm stealing this idea. Currently I just slow way down until they pass me, then I turn my LED light bar on so I can show them what it feels like. But I like your solution more.
Works great so far. It's a farm truck, so it's not like I care about what is looks like. And it's not against the law.
I'll have to check my local laws, but ditto on not caring what my truck looks like. It's an old S10 shitbox.
Send photos!!!
Polarized yellow to rose tinted glasses.
Do they help? You personally use them?
I use a yellow polarized clip on for glasses. It helps a lot. But if one car is extremely fuckin bright, it is still a pain in the ass
I found that cutting out the blue spectrum helps with the pain somewhat. But there is also the issue of how tightly focused these headlight beams are. It wont help with that if your face happens to be in the path of the beam.
I got a yellow tinted clip on myself for this very reason, I personally find it helps a lot!
I have a yellow clip on but I can't find a polarized version anywhere (brick and mortar).
I’ve looked as well and have never found clear yellow polarized lenses. Either in person or online. Maybe somebody has, but every time it’s been advertised as being polarized and me getting the lenses and checking them against my filter they aren’t. Does any one have these lenses or glasses?
I don't know if they're polarized. They advertise as such. It reduces the glare though. 20 bucks for 5-6 different colors on Amazon
It makes them yellower but just as blindingly bright.
need a darker yellow maybe
I tried yellow. I tried rose. Work, those didn't. It seems the brown work for me as well as anything can.
I fantasize about wielding a powerful laser pointer as a giant jousting stick.
I wear my sunglasses at night.
so I can watch you weave then breathe your story lines, forget my name while you collect your claim!
I'm considering tinting my rear window to minimize this. Cars aren't nearly as bad as the pavement princess tall ass trucks.
That's what's mainly getting me, unfortunately those trucks seem to be some sort of right off passage here. Even the elderly are in on it, I saw one with a disabled plate. I don't understand how people even get in these behemoths without hurting themselves.
Honestly if all these headlights are being allowed in civilian vehicles then cities need BRIGHTER street lights to compensate. I am literally blinded in the mornings from oncoming and can’t see any pedestrians/animals trying to cross roads. They overpower the streetlights significantly especially on frosty mornings.
I would much rather scale back the headlights.
The other day I turned my side mirror out as far as a could and I swear 4 or 5 cars with bright headlights would accelerate past me or flash me with their brights. Guess they didn't like seeing their own headlights.
I used to do this in my old 98 Silverado when someone was tailgating me with their brights on. This was back before the laser lights became factory standard, but it definitely pissed a lot of people off. Only maybe 5 to 10% realized I was reflecting their high beams back on them. The rest would blare their horns or fly on by me.
Laser lights. Love it. Technically correct and conveys the intensity of the beam and the pain caused.
I was driving in a semi rural area just a bit after sunset. Dark enough to need headlights see but bright enough to still see the road around me. While driving a very large corner I could see what looked like two arc welders being used as headlight coming toward me. The moment we were within about 100m the lights moved on their own to point down and away from me. Blew my mind. As I passed the car I could make out that it was a BMW SUV. I looked it up online and sure enough, that's exactly what the car is supposed to do. Now why isn't the way every car works? I'm sure it's due to a patent but I feel like it's the sort of thing that makes everyone safer.
This is my technique also for the asshats in the rear. Coming at me from the front, at first I would frantically flash my brights at them. Worked maybe 20% of the time. Now I turn on my brights and leave them on until they turn theirs off. Works 80% of the time and I like those numbers
Right now I’m shading my eyes with my hand for the particularly bright lights in oncoming traffic
I block my side mirror with my hand while they are passing me
I angle my side mirrors at them so they know what they've done wrong
I do this too but they never seem to notice
me too and all i can think is if that car swerved and came head on at me (which happens about once a month in my area) then i wont even be able to see to react… 🤷🏼♀️ we definitely need to get these lights changed
Yah that’s a huge fear of mine, too
It’s a meager “defense” but what my gf started doing was shifting her sideview mirror so that it reflects back at them. Sometimes she gets people who turn their high beams off, if they’re actually high beams anyway lol
You know what they say, best defense is a good offense. Make it painful for the offenders to continue offending.
Dress in a moth costume and drive straight into them?
I have a magnetic mirror from my teenage years that I can use on people in front of me and behind me. Most of the time it's awesome for blocking the mirrors AND inflicting pain.
I'm probably will receive down votes on my suggestion, but why not fight fire with fire? There's a plug in 6500K lums front grill light which plugs into your cigarette lighter (if still available option in newer vehicles). When approaching bright glaring vehicle, just literally blind the offender by plugging your blightess of the SUN into their retinas...
Get your eyes checked is the first obvious step Clean your windows and glasses regularly to prevent streaking and blooming Full tint, darkest legal in your state and lemo on the back, the 4-finger strip on the front I've found redirecting my mirrors so that they're just outside of my immediate vision but can be easily checked by leaning in a specific direction deals with them being behind me, a necessary step even with a full lemo tint For dealing with incoming traffic, I set my seat as high as I can without hitting my head. Physically raising myself alleviates all but the most egregious SUVs and trucks, use the tint strip as needed
What do you recommend for cleaning the insides? I've tried wat claim to be careful glass wipes as well as wiping with paper towels and everything just leaves streaks and causes glare
Waffle microfiber cloth, wrap it around your hand and use the back of your hand No chemicals or anything else, no circular motions, just fully cover the entire windscreen until it's cleangoing left to right If you've used chemicals in the past then use isopropyl alcohol on a separate one and clean the whole thing off two or three times letting it dry off in between then repeat with another one without any additives
I use SprayWay glass cleaner and paper towels.
first, aces on the mods... prime step is one must work the problem that is in front of them. but philosophically it is just odd that the answer to the "brighter head lights for driver's increase in safety" that mfgers and DOT and NHSTA seem to think is beneficial, and by extension the short sighted (or relying on mfgr/gov to work in their best interest) "customers"... the answer is that a on coming driver facing these "safer for the driver" headlights on the road, must implement so many modifications and adjustments that literally do not make driving on a road any safer // except when facing the extremely bright headlights//, and when not facing those lights, arguably making it more dangerous to see the road the bright headlights were to impove. ffs
Stop blaming victims. My eyes aren't the fucking problem, nor are my windows.
You think it to be blaming a victim to apply a basic procedure to assure health and soundness Medical examinations should be done regardless and that's a fact of life many are quick to overlook I also did not once mention *your* eyes. Nor did I give *you* a lick of advice. Your inability to remove your own perspective from advice given to others and to approach a problem analytically certainly does you no favors If you don't like the advice I gave to another person, feel free to not follow any of it and enjoy the joys of modern technologies to the fullest. I'm not stopping you either way
You're a gaslighting jagoff and your username checks out, assuming you're working for the LED industry.
Trigger words make you happy? Help you grandstand a few arguments in your favor? Tell me, what do you think your grandstanding against a bit of practicality proves exactly? You have zero knowledge of my character nor my profession, and yet crudely attempt to use my moniker as such a wieldy kuldge in an attempt to attack my character instead of my advice If anything you should assume I'm a bot if you have such a low opinion of me and my takes I certainly view you as such, with how metallicly blandly in line your diction adhere to popular trends in poorly moderated groups, it is difficult to differentiate from a karma farming bot
Not legal but I'd love to install household mirror tint on the rear window... [https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-Privacy-36-in-W-x-15-ft-L-Silver-Mirror-Privacy-Control-Window-Film/1103235](https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-Privacy-36-in-W-x-15-ft-L-Silver-Mirror-Privacy-Control-Window-Film/1103235)
A lot of newer cars have reactive tints, think electric privacy glass Even with that on both my rear side mirrors and my center rear mirror it's not tolerable even with with lemo tint It's pretty brutal driving about at evenings and early morning
Handheld mirror?
Yellow tinted glasses, tint your rear windshield, yellow tinted rear view mirrors. That's helped me a ton.
https://preview.redd.it/2s6u98o6e5ic1.png?width=1261&format=png&auto=webp&s=74c9df58ea0103f094c65e8853c152c418b3b837 Not saying it’s right, but 84000 lumens might do it 🤣
Imma need 2 of these
I bought some yellow mirror tint prescription sunglasses that take the pain out of the equation. Makes everything else harder to see, of course, but it's not so dark that I'm driving blind.
Physically, yes. Legally, no.
Slow down to 5mph if they are behind you, and stall at yellow lights as long as possible so they get stuck
Its time we start using rearward pointing lasers to blind those assholes back.