• highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Easy, because regulations don’t mean anything anymore.

    Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night, road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car, all around limo tints on literally every car, people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

    And that doesn’t even begin to mention the drivers themselves, so fucking self absorbed, tailgating, cutting you off for fun to get to the same light.

    I’ve literally had a stream of cars going around me on street roads and so many dumbasses just follow the stream that I literally cannot safety accelerate because they’re all cutting me off bumper to bumper.

    You should start carrying a gun if not already. The conservatives have successfully rotted western society.

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      1 year ago

      Had me until the politics, but I agree. These fucking headlights nowadays are incredibly dangerous, especially on these lifted garage queens.

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      1 year ago

      While you have some good points, it seems you may be missing one in that if you are constantly getting passed in that manner, you are causing a problem, regardless of what is posted. Most western law systems have a provision against impeding the flow of traffic.

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      1 year ago

      Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night,

      Illegal in the EU, Xenon and later LEDs always needed automatic height adjustment (it doesn’t suffice to do it once because cars change angles continuously). Lots has changed in the last 20+ years, though, speaking of VW: How about high beams all the time unless there’s something that could be blinded, then switch them off locally but keep the rest bright.

      road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car,

      Like this?

      all around limo tints on literally every car,

      Illegal.

      people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

      Illegal.

      And that doesn’t even begin to mention the drivers themselves, so fucking self absorbed, tailgating, cutting you off for fun to get to the same light.

      See the thing is that if you build your infrastructure in a way that requires people to drive cars you can’t just take licenses away from asshats.

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      1 year ago

      Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night, road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car, all around limo tints on literally every car, people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

      pretty sure all of those are illegal around here, with exception of the giant compensators.

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      1 year ago

      people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

      That might be people with daytime running lights not turning on the lights. My car will turn on the headlights as soon as I take the parking break off (MT, an auto would likely do it when put in drive), but the dash and rear lights don’t turn on unless I turn the dial.