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“Days after launch, you’re sitting at a red light. The novelty is gone and you’re not any happier. Maybe it’s your imagination, but the gaps in the door look off. You think you saw a car full of teens laughing at you earlier. You are now $100,000 in debt for a meme, and you feel … nothing.”

  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    But dam near all car headlights blind other drivers now. Its to the point that I have to keep sun glasses in my car when I drive at night. As someone with photophobia I use to like my night drives for work but now it’s just as bad as driving during the day.

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      8 months ago

      Saw this today. Some kind of front center ultrahighbeam blots out the plate as you can see and was way more blinding than it seems in the photo.

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        8 months ago

        There are legitimate uses for these kind of lights on work vehicles, but they should never be used on public roads. Using these in a city is pure, 100% distilled assholery.

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          8 months ago

          It’s not just that light. Those trucks are so high up the regular lights are right at eye level and they are already too god dam bright.

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        8 months ago

        But that’s because the driver is a selfish asshole that has to show his wealth as much as possible, not because the factory designed the luxury vehicle disguised as a truck like that

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          8 months ago

          I actually think these kinds of lights are to stop speed cameras from being able to read your plate.

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            8 months ago

            You can do a better job with high-intensity infrared leds, and it won’t bother everyone around you. It’s possible it would be easy to detect by police and may be illegal in some areas.

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        8 months ago

        I would never do this because I’m not a huge removed who doesn’t care about the safety of others but fuck I wana just blind people like that with high powered laser pointer.