Using high beams on a divided highway?

This just tells me that the degree of stupidity has gotten even higher to know full well that they are on high and to have no regard for fellow drivers.

 

I did this once!........ It turned out to be a cop I blinded, 2 days later they let me out!

 

I never use high beams on the big road. Even when there isn't any oncoming traffic. Simply because there is usually so much oncoming traffic that the dimmer switch would fall off from using it so much. Well, maybe not actually fall off but you see what I'm saying.

Note to PA Turnpike Northeast Extension (476) users:

PLEASE PLEASE dim your headlights for oncoming traffic. Just because there is a five foot barrier that serves as a median over which you cannot see the headlights of oncoming traffic does not mean that said oncoming traffic will NOT be blinded by your highbeams.

I have been tempted to (but never would for obvious safety reasons) blast the offending idiot with my 1.5 million candlepower spotlight.

 

You might have fought and won that one.

Y'all realize that you only have to dim your lights 500 feet from oncoming traffic and 300 feet when behind, by law (at least in CA)?

That is not very distant, at all. It is really right on top of someone. 500 feet is less than 1/10 mile!

As a general rule, I never have high beams on someone at anywhere near those distances - but that is what you can get away with legally.

 

In my younger years I ran with a set of 7" amber spot beams with 1 million CP bulbs.

And yes... they made a flat-out statement to high-beaming jerks!

I loved those lights. They would light up the road like daylight over a mile away - and totally blind any sob that kept his highs on me.

 

Does the op like it when someone does it to him?

It is the law to dim highbeams for oncoming traffic, and it is about being courteous, which seems to be lacking nowdays.

I seem to notice a trend of people not dimming their highbeams, and it really pisses me off, even when you flash your lights to let them know they still refuse to dim them. I think it is just laziness.

 

Speaking of high beams...what gives with all these drivers wanting to be of help to .let me know I've cleared their truck when passing by flashing their brights at me.
First off I am running by you doing 75 in your 62 mph truck and know when I'm clear of your rig.
Second no sooner i turn my blinker on to let you know I am coming back over on come the brights!
What do you think I am doing at the moment I am turning on my blinker and deciding to come back over?!? Thats right I am looking in my mirror only to see your brights come on.
Your not doing me a favor by doing this on a dark arizona highway and dont expect a courtesy flash back from me.
If you really want to help me out you can turn the head lights OFF for a brief second but even that isnt necessary. Trust me, I do know where my trailer ends

 

A man after my own heart. Main beams and fog lights are my biggest hate on the road, and in Alberta there's no shortage of either. What really gets my back up, though, is when people flash ME up when I already doused my brights, long before they were even aware that i was heading toward them. They are the ones who I reserve my educational materials for.

 

So, that DOES work for trucks! Good, I'm gonna adjust mine tomorrow before we head out....I'm sick of hearing from my trainers boss that its done differently for Tractor/trailers.