Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen

• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some people also don’t know you can set your headlights to “auto” so you aren’t driving at twilight with your headlights off.

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• goosehorse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought the same and then got a recent-ish car that had an “automatic” setting to dim or engage the high beams. It’s terrible. Taking tight corners on a dark rural road, they dim because the sensor detects the car’s own headlight reflection off of the trees, defeating the purpose.

  So, I think a bunch of dipshit city folk leave the high beams on (in the city where they aren’t fucking necessary) and let the “automatic” setting handle it, poorly.

  I learned how to drive in a rural area where using the brights is normal when you get out of town, with the caveat that you have to pay attention and switch back when creating a hill or coming around a corner.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This may be another case of needing technology to rescue people who are just that dumb.

  • Auto-high beams have been getting better over the years to the point that humans can no longer claim to be more responsive. They just work. Every time. And never forget
  • my car has active matrix headlights and it’s freaky to drive at night with the high beams on and watch a dark spot follow surrounding cars

  In ten years we’ll all forget how to toggle off high beams, as it will just work most of the time

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    auto high beams do not work every time.

    I am routinely blinded by them when people drive through my neighborhood at night and I’m walking my dog, or when I’m biking to the store. and this is in a neighborhood with street lights where high beams are completely and utterly not required in the first place at 40 km/h.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Every attempt to make something idiot creates a bigger idiot

      While I totally see the point this is already “solved” in that they shouldn’t have high beams on in the first place.

      Pedestrians and cyclists are tough because drivers don’t think to toggle their high beams, even If they see pedestrians and auto-high beams aren’t any better. We’re out of luck

      In my neighborhood we have very narrow streets and where there are sidewalks not pavement right next to the street. I never thought I’d appreciate the small amount of separation a standard sidewalk give but it actually does make a difference in how blinded your u are by traffic. But the bottom Line is similar to yours: this is a high density neighborhood with streetlights where no one should use high beams to begin with. Realistically there are several Poorly placed houses whose owners are probably even more frustrated

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yah, I drove a rental with these for the first time and didn’t like it. It left the high beams on far longer than I would’ve manually and when I tried to manually switch them off it would turn them back on without me knowing.

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I just bought a 2012 as my ‘new’ vehicle because I don’t want to deal with any stupid tech issues like that

        hell, I don’t even like standard traction control - if I press the accelerator, I want the wheels to get power. I’ve been stuck slowly crossing in the middle of an intersection too many times because ESC ‘helped out’ and cut power to the wheels. no mf just spin them until they get to the hard surface below the snowslush

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  doesn’t matter when lowbeams are just as bright as high beams and aimed at somebody’s face, though

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