Do you dim your brights for oncoming vehicles?

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Red_Arrow · Accepted Answer

Of course. Unfortunately newer vehicles are being built with two lights on each side. They can be combination lights with low and high beams in each, but in the past only one light shining on each side was low beam, and two on each side was both low and high. They really screwed things up. For those that refuse to dim their lights, may the off roaders turn on their light bars on top and blow them off the road.

Sober_Irishman · Accepted Answer

Always, because I don't like it done to me.

exitseven · Answer

My truck has automatic high beams. If it detects an oncoming car it automatically switches to low beams.

abc3643 · Answer

My problem is that, even if my bright lights are NOT on, often I get flashes from oncoming drivers to turn off my bright lights.

I have a 2020 Kia Soul EX with the EX Designer Collection. I got that "designer collection" because I wanted LED headlights. I bought the car in August 2019 when the 2020s were just coming out, but I had just had cataracts surgery in May 2018, so I was a bit obsessed with wanting light while driving at night. Before 2018, I almost got killed - twice! - because of difficulty seeing the road at night. Between my cataracts (which, at the time, I did not know I had) and my discolored headlamps in my 2005 Dodge Stratus SXT, it was not good. I cleaned the headlamps at Sears Automotive for $75 and it was worth it; they looked like new. And I was diagnosed with cataracts in February 2018 which was corrected, but I decided I like to see things when I am driving - especially at night - so I got those LEDs and will never get another car without them.

Still, the one downside is that, for the past few years, oncoming cars thought my LEDs were my brights being on and they weren't. I'd often flash right back so they WOULD know what my brights actually looked like. It's been a bit less now probably because more people are getting cars with LED headlamps.

Phoenix98 · Answer

It's common courtesy and you should because you can blind people on the road I've almost gotten into accidents because peoples bright'ss were so bright that I literally couldn't see anything not other vehicles, signs or even the road.

But I just typically drive with my normal settings on because the roads in my town are all pretty well lit for the most part and people are usually still running around doing stuff even up to 10pm so it's easier to just have them on one setting.

Though if I'm driving on the highway or a back country road I'll obviously have them on.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

How do you dim your lights?

I use the base standard german "Abblendlicht" (the standard driving headlights) which you can't dim, its either on or off, but if its off i am blind.

And the "fernlicht" the much brighter light, which you MUST turn off and switch back to the standard headlights when there is oncoming traffic, or within cities.

Daniela1982 · Answer

If I notice they are on. Usually when they flash your lights at you, you figure it out. This was on a Burma Shave series of signs on the side of the road.

Famous last words on brights that shine,

If he won't dim his, I won't dim mine!

lilBigPotato · Answer

How is this even a question lol. Everyone who doesn't shouldn't be allowed to drive

AviatorTom · Answer

I rarely drive with my brights, but when I do and I see another vehicle coming, I dim them.

I wish everyone did that. I spend more time flashing my brights to let prople know their lights are bright than I do dimming mine.

Miah04 · Answer

Absolutely.  Arie and joseph raised me right

sawno · Answer

No, in my country it's the driver etiquette to never have them on to begin with unless there is super thick fog. So my lights will be on with the lowest intensity.

electromagnetic · Answer

I do not in all honesty. Toronto roads are pretty wide uptown and don’t usually interfere with incoming lanes. Downtown is too bright to even have to worry about using high beams.

jshm2 · Answer

No. Use the right fucking headlights to begin with. If you need to use "full beams" then they should be angled down towards the road.

worldscolide · Answer

Always, my car actually auto dims when it detects oncoming light.

Wiredone · Answer

I have led headlights. I don't need to use my brights ever. I have people flashing their lights at me but there's nothing I could do. I usually just flash my brights right back at them so they know I don't have my high beams on

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Of course. Too much light into them may bring them off course. And when they then hit me, I'm a corpse of course.

HelpfulWoman · Answer

yes. and then they'll go back to bright if they're not turning their ones off for me lmao

Dargil · Answer

Yes, with some exceptions. If there's are bright aftermarket lights, I don't If theirs are on bright, I don't.

Siri137 · Answer

I never use the high beams to begin with, so I don't have to.

EmmaMary · Answer

@dustybiker2  Here in the UK, I believe it's an actual legal requirement to do so.

robhazelnut · Answer

Always if it isn't incredibly foggy or a torrential downpour.

sheikalana · Answer

The lights on my car are automatic they adjust according to the conditions.

Nice222 · Answer

Always. And my new Toyota Tacoma does it automatically.

msc545 · Answer

I dim my lights, but there is often some guy with a lifted truck coming at me and shining his brights right into my eyes.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

If the fog is on, so are those lights. On long trips I do dim out of road etiquette. An unwritten rule that fewer and fewer follow..

genericname85 · Answer

of course. it's even illegal not to do that here.

DJB72 · Answer

Yes, because I'm not an asshole.

Anonymous · Answer

If I can set my beer can down in time to reach the switch

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Yes because I'm not a douche.

Charliefretz329 · Answer

Of course! Who wouldn’t? 🤨

Jerre · Answer

I will if I’m on high beams

RebelinSteel · Answer

They do it automatically

sirderpsalot123 · Answer

Always

strateguy632 · Answer

no but i should

MrDaveAPSI · Answer

I try to. You're supposed to

Fuentes · Answer

Lol no

SweetDripp · Answer

Every time!

douride2 · Answer

I always do.

helva · Answer

I do.

tfan1 · Answer

Always

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Yea i do

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Yes!!!

Pterodon · Answer

Yes I do

riverrat3 · Answer

I do

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