High Beam Lights
Posted Mar 2, 2011 by anonymous | 81 views | 0 comments
Why do car companies still outfit cars with high beam light controls in cars as a standard feature? Unless you live in a rural area, with no street lights to speak of, you don't need them. People who use them in well lit city areas, as some kind of signal ('cops up ahead' or 'you're going too slow' ect...) or as a way of masking the fact that they have a headlight out are morons. If you need to use high beams to see in the city, you are too blind to be driving anyways (give up your car and take the bus). If you use high beams as a signal, you need to realize that the brightness of the lights can impair someone's vision enough to cause a serious accident and you can be charged (and should be) with criminal negligence. If you use them to mask a headlight being out, you have to know by now that cops know that trick very well and will target you before someone that is running with just one headlight. Then there is the whole contingent of people that drive around with them on and have no idea (despite the fact that an indicator light comes on on the dash board) that they are on or that they have high beam lights in the first place. These are the worst offenders to deal with because there is no way of getting them to turn them off if they have no idea what they are in the first place (short of reaching into their car and doing it yourself at a stoplight but that would be illegal). I wish that the car companies would only offer these lights as an option on cars and only after you can prove that you: 1. Need them. 2. Know when to use them. 3. Know what they are. Thanks for hearing me out. Tungi Kana
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