Oh I get the idea....moronic as it is. If, as you say, it's a vain hope why do you exacerbate the situation? Sure looking towards the ditch avoids the glare and minimizes your vision loss but leaving your high beams on is just plain stupid if not criminal. Either the other driver is "glare induced blind" or he, like you is looking at the ditch. Do you really feel comfortable or justified in blinding your fellow motorist? Driving at night is challenging enough without some vigilante deliberately keeping his high beams on. Once again, as you stated, "HOPEFULLY these morons will realize their error." On Wednesday, December 21, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: >> As to your leaving your high beams on Until the "offending" vehicle >> passes... well Andrew, that makes you the deliberate offender. Not >> only >> is it, as you stated "downright dangerous", it's downright stupid. >> Now >> you have two vision impaired drivers heading for each other at highway >> speeds. Brilliant solution. (No pun intended.) > > The idea is that HOPEFULLY these morons will realize their error... > but of course that's a vain hope. When an oncoming light glares I > look slightly to the left, which helps. Fortunately I don't have a > bad problem with glare-induced blindness, but some certainly do, my > wife f'r instance... this is a physiological problem. |
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