“I am driving a lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK”
"My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has BLINDING WHITE LED headlights positioned EXACTLY at EYE LEVEL. "
“I am currently TAILGATING you in the RIGHT LANE even though you’re going TWENTY MILES AN HOUR over the speed limit and the LEFT LANE is OPEN.”
“There are MONSTER ENERGY and FOX RACING stickers on the rear windshield of my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK.”
“There are PERFECTLY CLEAN mud tires and MASSIVE CHROME RIMS on my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK.”
“I make THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year and thought that that was a WISE FINANCIAL DECISION.”
“I bring cases of BUD LIGHT to girls at high school parties while my wife and children are at home.”
“My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has a GUN RACK which holds the AR-15 that I bought at WAL-MART.”
“YETI COOLERS kick ass!”
This is fucking gold, could be a copypasta or new meme format.
It’s a pre-existing copypasta.
Damn. I thought you had birthed something magical right here.
Come on now. Lemmy has its roots in Reddit.
Reposts are part of our religion.
We need GENUINE copypastas made by REAL AMERICANS in AUTHENTIC FACTORIES with GENUINE INGREDIENTS not these flimsy REDDIT REPOSTS.
Nothing more American than taking someone else’s idea and claiming it’s your own.
And if you think any other country is known for this, then mission accomplished.
Proof that the real joke is in the comments 👆
Jesus Christ, this is almost my brother.
If you need headlights with more lumens than the sun to drive at night, you shouldn’t be allowed to drive at night.
The temptation to mirror tint my rear windshield goes up every time I drive at night
Your rearview mirror likely has a little tab on the bottom of it. Push it when there’s The Entire Sun behind you. It’ll dim the mirror’s reflection without changing the angle.
If you have a newer, fancier car, you might have a digital version of that.
I use that thing a lot, but they usually drive close enough to get the side mirrors too, and generally light up the whole cab. So I spend however long they’re behind me hunched forward to keep their brights out of my eyes, waiting for a passing zone. I’m not even a slow driver.
Yeah this is my problem too. I drive an accord and most of the time these fucks just drive as close as possible lighting up my whole car and now i can’t fucking see so i slow down a lot to not be a danger
you’d probably save lives in the long run
So many people driving with their brights on in the city these days. It’s infuriating.
Where I am it’s the exact opposite, people driving in the city at night without their headlights on at all. I think the streetlights illuminate enough that they don’t remember to turn them on.
More often than not you can blame the auto industry for this. People want to migrate to LED lights for longevity reasons but the industry has no interest in OEM support for models that have already been produced, especially in the realm of upgrading/mods, so you end up with people dropping in cheap ebay replacements that have been developed without any consideration to the concentration of the beam or the design of the lens. If there was some level of first party support even to just the bare minimum of “here’s how you should do it and here’s the components to buy” you’d see a lot less of these issues since it’s likely not the brightness of the bulb that’s the issue but the way the lenses and housing were designed. In addition LED lighting has become so cheap it should be the complete default for every model but instead OEMs have decided to use it as a bargaining chip for higher trim packages.
It’s not just the cheap replacements. I had a brand new 2018 Toyota Rav4 and when I first bought it, I would get “flashed” constantly by people thinking my brights were on. They weren’t. In fact, I almost never had to use the brights. It had very bright white LED’s and at that point those style of headlamps were new and not many vehicles had them.
Now that GM, Ford, and a few others use similar bulbs, the “flashing” has mostly subsided. I think people have gotten used to them. I couldn’t blame anyone for being frustrated. They were excessively bright. A lot of new headlights are and I think it’s a problem. I’m happy about the better visibility but I don’t want to blind the person coming at me in the other lane. That’s not a good situation for either of us.
Might be worth getting the aim checked on the lights. They may have come poorly aimed out of the factory and are just pointed too high.
Then again half the problem is the big trucks and SUVs having their lights like 2-3 feet higher off the ground than a sedan does.
Ope, suddenly I remembered I love driving the speed limit.
Oh! A dashed line is approaching…I’m just gonna go 20 under now…
The moment one of these guys decides that my ass is a nice place to park his dick, I’m turning off cruise control until they back off. If they genuinely need past me, they can pass me. If they just want to smell my farts, they can smell em slowly.
Add BMW, Audi and modded Jeep drivers to that.
I usually just move my mirrors to reflect it back into their eyes, easy with motorized mirrors
Heh someone in a Tesla was blinding me from behind and tailgating so I moved both side mirrors and the rear view to aim them straight back. He passed around me over the double yellow line. With him now in front of me and in traffic I just flipped my high beams on and chuckled to myself until he eventually turned off and I put my headlights back to normal :)
Get yourself a flipper zero and you can remotely fold in their headlights/set off car alarm/ open doors of any tesla model you like. “Allegedly”
What about the Hyundai, acuras, Infiniti, dodge rams, and every other car with 69000 lumen HID LED RGBLT lights? 🥲
This does absolutely nothing beyond making you feel better, just FYI.
I mean, if it’s a difference between light in my eyes while driving and not, I’ll choose the latter 🤷♀️
Yeah that’s the point. Making me feel better.
That’s what I do as well.
I don’t think i could aim them that well. Do they back off?
Tinted mirrors.
They saved my life.
Now I want to put LEDs on my truck.
NO SIGHT FOR YOU, CAR PEOPLE.
Not to excuse lumenbros but I don’t care if you’re going 100 over the speed limit, if you’re in the left lane, someone wants to pass you and you can move over, move over. Then they can go the speed they want and you can go the speed you want.
Funny how everyone just seems to assume that people are in the left lane anytime anyone brings up shitbags tailgating.
People tailgate. They tailgate in the left lane. The right lane. The turning lane, the parking lot, fuck they probably tailgate in driveways.
There is no excuse for it. Whether or not you want to go faster than the person in front of you or not. It is dangerous and selfish under all circumstances.
I actively go slower the closer they get to my bumper, eventually I get slow enough that they feel confident enough that their expensive car or truck can pass
I’m a school bus driver and we were taught to do exactly this when somebody tailgates us. Tailgaiting a school bus is remarkably pointless anyway, since a car that close behind becomes completely invisible to us. I can only know somebody is doing it at night because of the faint glow in my side mirrors that I maybe eventually notice.
This is exactly what I was taught to do in driver’s ed.
Well if you’re not in the scenario I just outlined I guess I’m not talking about your situation, am I?
So it’s a scenario you made up to be angry at?
It has nothing to do with the scenario presented unless you make it about that.
You don’t like people in the left lane when they’re going slower than you? Sucks to be you.
Buddy if you think being behind someone who has no business being in the left lane is a made up scenario you sure are lucky in your little bubble, the rest of us live in the real world. Also I never said anything about it being OK to tailgate in my “made up” scenario, I just said in that situation you should get out of the left lane. So it seems you’re the one making it about something it isn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only if you aren’t passing people. If you’re in the left lane and passing those on the right, you have no obligation to move over just because someone behind you wants to go faster.
This all assumes there isn’t significant congestion causing all lanes to be mere travel lanes below the speed limit.
I’d say as long as you’re passing at a reasonably higher speed than the right lane. I don’t think rigs should ever be allowed in the left lane, let alone “passing” another rig going 69 while you’re going 70
Glad you said the second part, as someone who frequents the traffic heavy 405 I don’t think we have passing lanes anymore sometimes.
Not all roads have left lanes
Who said anything about roads?
This guys driving a flying delorean…
Then I guess my comment doesn’t apply to those situations, does it? Plus I’m also talking about sidewalks and grocery store aisles, damn slow walkers.
I definitely feel you on those people that insist on floating in the left lane for miles and miles, though this is a really peculiar context to relate in. You’d ostensibly be getting over for the lighted asshole, and this comment section isn’t about to do anything kind for the asshole.
