Why I'm going to be "solar powered" from now on.

I feel your pain driva. I run mostly nights and deal with the same crap.

What's with all the new cars running around with their highbeams on all the time too? Bunch of brain dead aholes out there.

 

Running reefer, we can have some wide-ranging schedules and sometimes have to shift time schedules around, but also being a mostly coast to coast runner, I can generally run most of the time, on my preferred schedule.

I prefer running between 04:00 to 16:00 if/where/when I can. But winter time and up north, you're going to be driving a lot in the dark, regardless. I'm seeing a lot of those dam LED lights too that for all intents and purposes behave like regular high-beams in many cases. Then there's the busted hoods with lights jiggling up and down creating a strobe light effect. Then there's the sleepy drivers weaving from from lane to lane.

 

Yeah, being a vampire was and is fun, but I'm getting to the point of wanting to become solar powered as well. My biggest reason is simply that I'd like to have a more normal life. To be able to sit with the wife and kids in the evening and do family type things, eat supper with them and not be rushed. Stuff like that.

I definitely hear ya on the light thing. Some of these clowns out here take it a bit too far with these lights that will burn your retinas

 

And another thing I hate is these emergency vehicles with these ultra bright lights. I'm all for them being able to do their job safely, but when their lights blind oncoming traffic, how safe is that?

 

i run night an day sleep on the week end

 

I guess they serve their purpose. It really does force you to slow way down, especially on a rainy night.

 

I would agree with you about being brain dead, but I also think some of it might come down to them letting there vehicles do the thinking for them. I know on my pickup it has an option to automatically turn on high beams at night till it detects lights coming towards you, now there is several conditions that don't allow it to automatically dim their high beams, and they have to do it themselves, and we know how much thinking people do while driving anymore!! I found it one day while actually looking through the owner's manual, I know what man does that! but I was looking for something and saw that and thought it was one of the dumbest things, needless to say it is not turned on mine.

 

plenty of time to sleep when your dead