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Old 06.24.2008
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Sure they're fog lights (amber)? If not, they're not fog lights, but driving lights and do assist with visability at night.
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I would imagine that it would be better not to flash anything if all you have is the high beams after all, I really don’t see why another driver feels so obligated in having to flash at all. I know, many people believe that it’s a courtesy thing, kinda like holding the door open for a lady, but seriously, do you really need the assistance of another driver to let you know when it is safe to pull back into your lane? I would think that you should have more confidence of your driving skills than that!

I agree, even if no one else does. While I was in training, I was actually instructed not to flash my lights for liabilty reasons. In practice, I find when passing, I have enough to do without flashing lights as well.

I always flash a quick thank you to anyone, 4 or 18 wheeler, who lets me in at a merge. Simply passing, however, I don't see the reason. If I'm rude, so be it.
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I would imagine that it would be better not to flash anything if all you have is the high beams after all, I really don’t see why another driver feels so obligated in having to flash at all. I know, many people believe that it’s a courtesy thing, kinda like holding the door open for a lady, but seriously, do you really need the assistance of another driver to let you know when it is safe to pull back into your lane? I would think that you should have more confidence of your driving skills than that!
Because most that do are not fresh CDL holders. They have a different outlook to their fellow drivers. One of the few things that has not went to the wayside of me me me out here.
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You won't be blinded by the high beams if you don't look at them! A quick flash of the high beams has been the standard since dual beam headlights have been on trucks. I was taught that when I was riding with my father in the early fifties before I started grammer school.
Every vehicle I've ever seen with a headlight signal switch flashes the high beams. At night you should avoid looking directly at head lights, when I look at the truck I'm passing, I focus on the top edge of my mirror. Pilots are taught not to look at white lights at night to preserve night vision. You learn the same thing in the Military. No one bothers to tell student drivers not to look at the headlights.
If you don't want the driver you're passing to flash you, don't signal until you're well pass him. If you signal before you're passed him, you're telling him to flash you, that's been the standard since before I was born.
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I think this is good response
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Go ahead, flash me
Likely to hurt some sensitive types, but here goes.
Most of my driving has been North of the border, by choice, I might add. There it is customary to quickly flash the high beams to another driver when he's clear, in fact I think it's expected. Also customary is the act of saying thankyou in using your 4ways, turn signals, or interuppter if it works in creative ways.
The trick is, not to stare in your mirror, you've got enough to do without creating your own version of tunnel vision.

I remember back when that was the standard way to flash someone back in. Seems the last x number of years that it's become fashionable to find fault and ridicule other drivers every chance that arises. When down here, I'll do it like U.S. drivers, when elsewhere, I'll do it the way it's expected.
Remember the old saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans".
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Keep Your Bright Lights To Yourself !!!
I don't know about the rest of you but I am so sick of the drivers out there today that when you pass them they turn on thier high beams to signal that you are by them... I would rather you let me figure it out myself rather than have you blind me...
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Honestly. With all that technology out there I can't tell anymore if somebody is using their high beams or if they have one of those special brighter headlights. In a truck it's not so bad because I'm sitting up high. But driving in a car and seeing a big SUV coming up behind you with two personal suns is really annoying.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I am so sick of the drivers out there today that when you pass them they turn on thier high beams to signal that you are by them... I would rather you let me figure it out myself rather than have you blind me...

It never bothers me and I like it. Especially in the rain or bad elements.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I am so sick of the drivers out there today that when you pass them they turn on thier high beams to signal that you are by them... I would rather you let me figure it out myself rather than have you blind me...
I for one do not stare in the mirror. Most times I am flashed before I look back in the mirror. I look out of the corner of my eye. When I do go to the mirror I do not focus on it.
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