Unnecessary use of high beams

I have HID low beams, so I just ride with both low and high HIDs on if someone doesn't turn off their brights.

What bothers me even more is the idiots who (knowing they can't use their brights in traffic) drive around on clear nights with fog lights.  Especially pick ups and higher built suvs...they blind the crap out of the rest of us.  Fog lights are just that.....for fog or rainy dark nights to help see the road better.  The blessing is that you cannot use your brights and fog lights at the same time

It's not much of a problem around here. All I have to do is flash my brights and they dim theirs. 95% of the time, it's just a reminder. Same thing when I forget. If halogens are in your eyes, it's because they're not adjusted correctly. (Or they have a body in the trunk)

This is at its worst on rural highways late at night, which I got to experience again just last night on a fairly curvy rural highway. Almost everyone dims their lights when they get really close to you, but a lot of people just wait too long. Most of the time, if you can see oncoming headlights, you need to dim your lights. There is an exception on really flat land, where you can sometimes see traffic coming for a couple miles, in which case just use some common sense. And then of course there are those halogen bulbs which several reviewers have mentioned. Even when they are on dim a lot of these are still too bright.

It's really bad when you drive a tiny Ford Escort and some great big truck with their high beams on is coming right at you!  Even worse when they tailgate and their high beams come right in and bounce off the rearview mirror into your face!  I just can't believe how rude people are when they get behind the wheel!!!!

What I find far worse are the SUV's with enough extra halogens on to light up Yankee stadium. On a rainy night it's like a star went nova in front of you.

Okay, so I'm both night blind and legally blind (driving without my glasses would probably have me arrested for public endangerment or something but yea) so this is something that I tend to find highly annoying and potentially dangerous. It gets even worse when the oncoming car has those halogen bulbs; I just can't tolerate those white/blue tinted lights!

when you are on a dark road at 2:00 in the morning and a car in coming at you and you still have about 600 feet from you and the car coming at you I don't think it is a problem. I drive down these kinds of roads all the time and see alot of wife life on the sides of the roads and don't feel like hitting them so I use my HIGH BEAMS and one time a cop happened to be coming at me and he pulled me over asked me when I lived I told him then he asked me to get out of the car never stating why, he the gave me a DWI test he did not get any where with that because I don't drink HAHA. So because he could not get me on that he gave me a ticket for HIGH BEAMS which I don't see how? I was more them 600 feet away that is two football feilds I did not think I should of had to turn them off yet on such a dark road. the officer told me it was agaist the law to drive with them on, if so why does every car have them. and for you people who are mad about it, it is my right as an american to feel safe on ... Read more

This isn't just annoying. This is infuriating. My dad used to have a Dim It, Dammit bumper sticker when he was younger. Pure genius.

What the hell has happened to drivers? Doesn't ANYBODY turn off their high beams on time anymore? It's very simple- if you see a hint of light approaching you it is either a (1) car or (2) an alien spacecraft. Either way- turn off your high beams, please. It must be part of the complete lack of class nowadays. . .no one gives a sh#t about anybody else. Sheesh. . .

High beams blinds me so when I see one coming, I shift my eyes to the white line on the side of the road until the car passed me by. It's unnecessary to use them unless there is no car ahead of you coming in your direction while driving at night (I would switch to low beam if there was a car coming). But again, I don't like high beams because they blind me and it hurts my eyes.

I was driving in the rain at night the other day and a car was coming at me with what I thought was their brights on. I was in a bad mood and I usually don't do this, but I flashed mine at them. I guess this happens to them a lot, because they immediately flashed theirs. It was like the surface of the sun. I had a big green spot in my vision from the aftermth. I thought I was going to run off the road.

Now this seriously bursts my bubble. It freakin kills my eyes when people do this. My natural reaction would be to flash them right back with my high beams, but then I'd be no better than them.

It's one thing if it is absoluelty necessarry, but if it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon and there's not one cloud in the sky, PLEASE DON'T BLIND ME.

Some people don't seem to realize that there is another setting for your lights besides max. Some people try to attract attention to themselves by flashing their highbeams at the rest of us. I can handle the bright piercing light going into my eyes, but especially during rainy weather it can cause very bad accidents. You'll get ticketed for doing this, some people get disoriented by high beam drivers. I just find it annoying.

I just give them back a taste of their own medicine to piss them off.

With todays improved lighting there is no longer any excuse for this. The optional automatic headlight dimmer (standard on some luxury cars) has been available since 1952. If you really are that forgetful, have your next vehicle equipped with this device.