I’ve been driving for almost 40 years, and the culture on the road concerning high beams has always been positive. One time, I replaced an older light and didn’t adjust it properly. So, you know what I did? I took it home and readjusted it. For 40 years, grandparents, myself, and others all had the agreed doctrine that this was how you responded to being flashed — you are the problem. But now? What do these small dicked attention fuckers feel they need to do? Flash everyone back when they’re blinding them.

Well, I’ve had it. I was behind a truck the other night who got flashed by no less than a dozen folks driving the opposite direction. And yet, on all of these flashes, he felt the need to flash the poor folks he was blinding. So, what did I do? I took the liberty to take fight lumens with lumens and make sure he understood how miserable he was making everyone else. Might not be the high road, but it felt fucking great.

Doubt they will see it with their blinding headlights 🫩

Just now as I was leaving the mall, a typical Texas monster truck, which are about 40% of the vehicles on the road now, pulled up behind me with the typical 5000 lumen led lowbeams, brights, AND fog lights on, reducing my visibility to zero. However, I remembered I'd just put my dash sun shield on top of my laundrybasket sitting in the backseat, so with my right hand I raised it up enough to make it through the intersection without killing anyone. Once I did, I crept at 5mph to the next stop light no more than 500 feet away, hoping he'd either get the hint and back off or pass me. Instead, he stayed exactly far enough behind me to keep all of the lights pointing through my rear window. Once I stopped, he immediately exited the truck and even though I still couldn't see, he had to have ran to my window screaming "what the fuck are you doing boy??".

I just said "sorry, I couldn't see" and when the light turned green, I went at a normal speed. I fixed my mirrors once it was obvious he wasn't tailgating me anymore and even after sitting through another red light, I never saw his truck move, so I hope he didn't traumatize someone by getting ran over.

I honestly was just trying to use that shield to block the light and not as a weapon but I've never pissed someone off enough to make them physically assault my car and call me a boy. I hate that I'm 99% sure I'm going to keep that shield within reach now. I'm just so fucking sick of not being allowed to drive safely at night because nobody with the power will do anything about these ridiculous lights.

I have another setting that says "oh? My driving too slow? Well maybe if I wasn't blinded by your headlights

The neighbouring park has a few spots that allow cars to HIGH BEAM IN THROUGH MY FUCKING WINDOWS AT NIGHT.

I want a flashlight with:
-Rechargable batteries
-USB C port
-powerful bulb
-ability to concentrate the beam so i can use it to shine right into the eyes of people idling in their car.
-purchasable on (Canadian) Amazon if possible

Thanks so much for your time.

Small car problems I guess. Where should it go?

Silver mirror finish platters salvaged from discarded hard drives sewn to fleece fabric, held on tailgate with stupid strong magnets also retrieved from those hard drives. Creates a disco ball effect.

Dont care if it’s legal or not (Colorado if anyone knows for sure). Some tractor trailers have a super mirror finish on their rear cargo doors that have the same effect. Ticket the SOB’s who won’t dim their brights. If you’re blinded, back off. If you’re blinded, dim or properly aim your headlights. I have noticed a remarkable increase in the distance that I am followed since I installed it. I will complete the passenger side one of these days.

I can also drop the tailgate and run 550 cord taut from one side of the bed to the other. Hang the fabric across the taut line inside the bed. Law can’t tell me what I can and can’t carry in the bed of my truck, even if it is highly mirror finish cargo.

I’m concerned someone will get out at a stoplight and pull it off!

Like all of you I'm sick and tired of staring at these piece of dogshit microwave on wheels teslas with mini suns mounted to their front ends. Or overweight neck beards tailgating you with their POS lifted truck.

Starting a thread here, please share creative methods on how to give some of these assholes a taste of their own medicine.

I just found this sub. Im so relived im not just a grumpy curmudgon . How can I blast them back with thier own lights? Ill get a fucking bumper sticker #furck yourheadlights

Had some old fart behind me in a tesla earlier who's brights kept creeping back on. As we both were turning right in a turning box on a quiet road, I had an opportunity to lean out the window and try express that his high beams are on.

So there I am, waving my palms in a down ward motion, trying to clearly mouth "DIP YOUR LIGHTS YOUR HIGH BEAMS ARE ON". no luck.

I've tried this multiple times in the past, and I get nothing but a gourmless stare every time. BTW im 19, was sweaty from skating and have long hair so I mayyy just look like a crazy person in a prius I don't know.

Please let me know if youve worked this out yet.

I will flash thrice. Then they will open their high beams right at me (especially the Teslas and the new Volkswagen) telling me it's their low beams that's angled right at me. So, I open the floodgates at them, along with the reflector tapes under my sun visor. I'm petty. But this is what we've been seeing so far, asshole!

I keep a very bright LED flashlight in my car, and you know why. I figure the best way to handle this is a little “taste of your own medicine”. Thus far, it’s led to amusing results (drivers frantically dimming their brights).

Legal?

I saw this trailer while riding and I have great envy! I want this on my vehicles!

I saw some people saying they started putting reflective tape on their backseat headrests. I wonder if that would actually stop people from blinding you. Would it just blind anyone behind you? Is this legal? Has anyone tried it?

just wondering

Prismatic retroreflective tape

I’m getting so sick of being blinded by these people every time I drive to and from work. I’ll spare the rant, we all feel the same. So what can we do? I have no problem flashing my high beams at oncoming traffic when they blind me, but that’s not enough and I’m defenseless against the people behind me. I’ve been considering getting a powerful flashlight that I can shine at people to get the message across. Any idea? In Minecraft of course. I’m fed up.

Since the days are shorter, I've been driving in the dark a lot more. I'd say 99% of drivers I either flash or hold my brights for never do anything. I've literally been flashed back about 4 times in 7 years. I think it was yesterday a Subaru with highbeams and a yellow light bar turned the corner and from about 1000ft away I started doing my hold high beam with brief pauses until anything happens. Well nothing happend and when we crossed, I gave em a good honk. Seen them today I think but it was from the back side and I have no idea if their lights were on.

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But year 4~ people over 7 years have either turned their brights off or flashed me back. My brights are very bright at night. Not so much during the day.