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this is so a pre-2010s problem
the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights
bUt ThEyRe StOcK aNd AiMeD pRoPeRlY
clean your windshield that shit is dirty as fuuck
I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.
Maybe calm down a bit?
It’s a meme sure, but it’s a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn’t entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.
If you can’t see the road look to the right side to keep yourself in the lane or look at the double yellow line. I’m no help at avoiding the other cars in your lane but this should keep you moving forwarded instead of brake checking the person behind you
Do not casually drive in Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945.
Okay but what if I’m in a Toyota ae86 and need to deliver sushi?
It means it’s time to get serious.
Lmao, folk really be driving in light mode.
If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
Big if true!
As I understand, some have several digits at the very end of those forelimbs and possess sufficient dexterity to use specifically the middle one of those to block the bright light.
GTFOH troll. Stop playing on fantasy land.
Clean your windshield (correctly) and get some polarized sunglasses
But first he should surrender his driver’s license after revealing he’s a careless threat to his road safety & others’.
Or! And hear me out, here. A wile E. Coyote style painted brick wall.
Just perform a safety squint.
Can’t stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don’t have “the bright” lights.
tbh I’d rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
and have done many times, it’s hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can’t see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is
That’s the sun >.>
yeah well someone should do something about this “sun”
yeah and it drives like an asshole
It seems like the sun is being reflected off the bus’s window.
Would polarising glasses help?No, it’s the actual direct fucking Sun ffs
Kill it!
Oh right.
Had to look at it a bit longer to realise.
The rear light on that vehicle looked kinda like that of a bus though.
Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Though I’d add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?
Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Thank you for this!! I’ll be picking some up this weekend.
Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.
I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.
Alternatively, if you get those rings of iron right at the water line that refuse to wash away, pumice stones work great.
I have some BKF for the kitchen sink but didn’t know they made toilet cleaner, thanks for the tip!
Sweet, thanks! Fingers crossed this will be the answer to my shower woes 🤞
I’m rooting for you! I’m convinced it’s magic so it might even cure diseases, who knows.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
[off topic]
You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He’s your ‘wise hermit.’
Well as someone who has crewed on race cars and had a hand in building more than a few, not a single word of what you said was wrong.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person with a partner who is on the spectrum, I cannot say how much I appreciate her and you.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person
We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about “getting around to it” and dont.
Clean your windshield, inside and out,
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Late is better than calling insurance. Maintain distance.
Maintain sensible distance for sure
Then stand still
I don’t think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.
I would love to know why anybody would downvote this observation.
I guess some people can’t imagine a 2-lane, opposed traffic route/rural highway. 🤷
An actual adult in the room.
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
I’m impressed you got your windshield replaced in one hour on Black Friday
Lol! I had it replaced two months ago. Of course now I’m wondering if Safelite runs Black Friday sales
Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.
I only do it with 3 or 4 bars of signal. I wouldn’t want my livestream to cut out during such a high intensity moment.
Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.
with the driver stood on his phone.
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!
I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled “you cannot park there mate” 😉
* but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.
Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
What is your name traveller… 😆
I would love to see Limmy on Lemmy. He’d fit right in here.
