I know I’m not the only one who feels like I’m getting visually assaulted everytime I drive at night. It was bad 10 years ago but now, it seems like headlight manufacturers have a deal with insurance companies and optometrists to make the lights as bright as possible. Is this ever going to stop or is there some kind of race in the headlight industry to see who can reproduce the power of the sun first?
And bikes. The cyclists who in broad summer cloudless noon daylight still find the need to strap a quasar to their handlebars baffles me. I feel like buying the brightest array of LEDs and walking around with a backpack filled with batteries and just clobbering these fucking idiots right in the retinas.
A number of e-bikes now come with built-in lights that are just on all the time, hence the reason why bikes that are all lit up in the middle of the day are starting to become common.
A lot of these lights have little or no adjustments either.
Worse: bikers with a glaring headlamp.
Sometimes it’s a piercingly bright red taillight. It’s noon in summer you fucknozzle, WE SEE YOU. We don’t need to see you three time zones over. I wish I was physically capable of exerting great violence upon people because that’s where we are as a society.
The mindset of these people aggravates me, they’re in the same category as door hoggers: people who smack themselves in the way of bus, metro, or elevator exits… let people off first!