Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you've ever watched or read anything with that "wise old hermit" that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can't function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn't qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though.... not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don't stare directly into the sun.
That's why it's really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can't fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there's a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you'll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.
Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.
Maybe you just suck?
Let me ask you this
You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
Though I'd add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.
Hehe, yeah. In the oldendays there was newspaper as an option for drying glass streak-free. It was never the best choice luckily, but it used to be prevalent. A squeegee was the old better solution, and a microfiber cloth is the new better solution.
Eh if it was pitted you'd probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn't cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It's not a great situation at it's best, but it shouldn't be fully debilitating.
Irs actually not dangerous in the same way driving blind is. I doubt you care about crumple
Zones.
In one situation you drive blindly into an accident… the other “well rear ending can sometimes be bad!!!!”
It never is. The you’re wrong, crazy, and also stupid.
You’re entire argument is “driving blindly is safer than stopping blindly” it’s dumb. It’s a dumb argument. When is going ever safer than stopping lol? You are dumb.
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
As I understand, some have several digits at the very end of those forelimbs and possess sufficient dexterity to use specifically the middle one of those to block the bright light.
Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.
Do you camp in the wilderness? Because most people insist on bringing their car or their SUV with them.
I make it a point to cycle to provincial parks and use rustic camp grounds, but most of these still have parking spaces. In fact, the provincial parks here literally have a disclaimer on their website to warn people that some camp sites are not accessible by car. You have to tick a box that says "I understand this camp ground is not accessible by car".
And if people want to go on crown/public lands where wild camping is permitted, then they're probably gonna use a fucking car.
I camp in the wilderness. I can still hear the cars. There is no escape. You'd have to go way out into the wild to be free from noise pollution. Or other pollution. And there's still going to be both.
That's the point. You have to traverse serious wilderness to get away from it. It used to be the normal state of the world. Now it's all fucking smog and 24/7 engine noise. You'd have to go seriously off grid to get away from it.
I do, I do. There's always engine noise. You can't escape it. I can't even imagine what life must have been like five hundred years ago. It must have been so quiet and peaceful. No cars, no radios, no tvs, no planes, not the constant droning of some kind of engine, not even lights.
In the evenings it would be calm and quiet and dark, apart from conversation, maybe some birds chirping, the sounds of an inn cooking dinner and serving guests, the only light coming from flickering candles or torches or fires. Streets were for walking. You'd meet people, friends, enemies, children, pretty girls, and I believe it would all be fairly hushed early in the evening, because people would go to bed when it was dark and no further work could be done for the day, and men would sit huddled around campfires and drink whatever beverage they had, like wine or beer, from bottles made of glass or clay.
Sure, there'd be some serious drawbacks to that life too, but at least their air wasn't poison, they didn't breathe poison.
I've seen another "joke" like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it's funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can't see shit around them.
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don't have "the bright" lights.
tbh I'd rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
and have done many times, it's hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can't see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is
This comment section is either too autistic or not autistic enough, because they're either unable to identify the joke in the post, or I'm unable to identify their level 7 advanced satire.
Okay well maybe you should count me in with the autistics because what I see in that post is a filthy windshield and driver can't see the road with the sun in their eyes and he's also taking a picture while driving. Major threat to road safety.
Nothing says "I can tell this is a joke, but it's not funny" like telling OP that they're acting dangerously as though they're actually doing this, and giving them actual advice as though they asked for any.
/s
Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I'm talking about.
What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?
Even if it wasn't funny, if you recognize it as a joke, none of the behavior makes sense. This smells strongly of lying to save face.
Once again, I can't tell if you're too autistic to understand a joke, or I'm too autistic to understand your advanced satire.
This is lemmy. The only way in ze real life we could deal with jokes is by pretending to not get them, and now it's even taking over our online lives! AAAAAAAH!
the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights
most of the time when I get flashed back, it doesn't even matter. their high beams aren't any brighter than the low beams, they're just aimed higher, and since their lowbeams are already aimed above my head, it doesn't make a difference when they turn their high beams on to light up the tree tops
it still is pretty funny when you can tell that they've turned their high beams on by a tiny bit more light up above, but it has no effect on you. It's a pretty clear indication that their low beams are too bright
They can get scratched up, but if you haven't cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.
Vaping in my car is what made me start keeping a microfiber cloth in my door pocket. The vape went away, but the cloth is actually really handy for cleaning off the window when sitting at red lights. Would recommend to everyone that drives.
It's a meme sure, but it's a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn't entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.
Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
How calm should I be about driver's being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because "lol, what was I supposed to do?!?" .... Exactly?
Can't see? Don't drive. It's not fucking rocket surgery.
That's just not true though. Most of the year in the northern hemisphere, roads angled to the southwest are much worse than roads heading dead west during sunset.
Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.
Edit: the earth is round. I apologize for my mid-latitude chauvinism. Adjust angles per lattitude.
At the Equator, where the Sun rises and sets perpendicular to the horizon, the Summer Solstice Sun rises 23.5° north of due East, and sets 23.5° north of due West.
The Sun moves around a lot over a year. I don't think it's practical to try to plan a grid around it.
Yes, it does. But it would be higher at the 45°’s and not in your face. We planned a grid on the compass one way, it would have been no more difficult the other way.
I believe it depends on the latitude, since away from the equator the Sun rises at an angle and not straight up. It can be low enough to still be below the visor, but risen enough to have moved far enough south (if in the northern hemisphere) to be problematic when driving southeast in the morning or southwest in the evening.
Do you think being stopped means it’s safe to use your phone behind the wheel?
How are you supposed to make an evasive maneuver if the car behind you can’t stop? Or if someone starts crossing the road and is now laying on the road from falling?
Hope you aren't using a phone to send this. Who knows what could happen during that time. Maybe someone puts the big red launch nukes button under your foot and you start nuclear winter when you go to stand up.
That’s obviously something that’s impossible to happen.
If you think that neither of those are possible, or countless others… you’re a hazard on the road. There is absolutely no reason to use your phone while stopped, anything can happen, and you won’t notice while you’re sending that text.
The life of you or someone else isn’t more important than whatever is on your phone.
You seem to think getting rear ended while stopped at a light is an impossibility… that’s clearly not true and there’s plenty of statistics to support this is entirely possible and does happen. Now, you can also avoid the collision if you’re paying attention and have space. But obviously that can’t happen if you’re too preoccupied with your phone, instead of the road. Like you’re supposed to. At all times.
Move your foot from the brake to the gas and steer out of the way…? Same way you would move for emergency vehicles. Which is another reason to pay attention to the road.
You're not quickly getting your car out of the way of someone else if you're fully stopped. Most of them don't accelerate nearly fast enough for that.
Besides, pretty sure I would just stall the car if I tried evading someone quickly while probably slightly panicked.
You don't do an evasive manoeuvre for emergency vehicles. You should hear and see them coming from quite a distance. You just scoot over in a regular way.
You’re still driving a car while stopped mate. This is the reasoning that leads to people drinking while they are stopped. They aren’t technically driving… but it’s obviously not safe and shouldn’t be done.
If you can't see the road look to the right side to keep yourself in the lane or look at the double yellow line. I'm no help at avoiding the other cars in your lane but this should keep you moving forwarded instead of brake checking the person behind you
Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?
Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/321779430
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Thank you for this!! I'll be picking some up this weekend.
Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.
I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.
I have some BKF for the kitchen sink but didn’t know they made toilet cleaner, thanks for the tip!
Alternatively, if you get those rings of iron right at the water line that refuse to wash away, pumice stones work great.
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/321779430
Sweet, thanks! Fingers crossed this will be the answer to my shower woes 🤞
I’m rooting for you! I’m convinced it’s magic so it might even cure diseases, who knows.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you've ever watched or read anything with that "wise old hermit" that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can't function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
[off topic]
https://bookshop.org/p/books/postal-compendium-bryan-edward-hill/cf3c266991cb9b1f?ean=9781534399440&next=t
You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger's serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He's your 'wise hermit.'
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn't qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though.... not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
Well as someone who has crewed on race cars and had a hand in building more than a few, not a single word of what you said was wrong.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person with a partner who is on the spectrum, I cannot say how much I appreciate her and you.
We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about "getting around to it" and dont.
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don't stare directly into the sun.
That's why it's really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can't fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there's the issue of oncoming traffic.
I would love to know why anybody would downvote this observation.
I guess some people can't imagine a 2-lane, opposed traffic route/rural highway. 🤷
If there's a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you'll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Late is better than calling insurance. Maintain distance.
Maintain sensible distance for sure
Then stand still
I don't think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
I don’t think driving a multi ton machine while blind is a good idea
No shit lol
You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.
Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.
Maybe you just suck?
Let me ask you this
You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?
I think you need a breather, my friend
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
I’m impressed you got your windshield replaced in one hour on Black Friday
Lol! I had it replaced two months ago. Of course now I'm wondering if Safelite runs Black Friday sales
An actual adult in the room.
Though I'd add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.
Hehe, yeah. In the oldendays there was newspaper as an option for drying glass streak-free. It was never the best choice luckily, but it used to be prevalent. A squeegee was the old better solution, and a microfiber cloth is the new better solution.
Eh if it was pitted you'd probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn't cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It's not a great situation at it's best, but it shouldn't be fully debilitating.
Wash your window, dumbass.
Why... why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?
Because he points to the left and thy wanted to point to the comment above
Oh. My bad, it never even cross my mind. So it's basically the gif equivalent of "This."?
Thy doth pointeth
Geeeez, just rotate the image π/2 radians then.
How would that help? his eyes are closed. Didn't you read it?
Ohh nah, I was reminding myself to wash my window.
you can show up to work before sunrise and leave after sunset.
signed,
your boss
Easy enough in the winter. This pic is my commute both ways in autumn though.
Your own fault for living west of your workplace.
easily done with 10am sunrise and 2pm sunset
You stick your head out the window like Ace Ventura
Instructions unclear. Stuck my head out of a rhinoceros' ass.
No I think you nailed it
reverse-nailed it, more like.
Done this to get kids to school on time once or twice. Twas only for a few seconds/meters but was mildly scary all the same
you put on the hazard lights and slow down while steering to the side of the road to assess the situation or until you can see again.
like holy shit why would you even consider accelerating when you can't see where you're going
It's a funny joke image with silly joke text, it ain't that serious
Except that it's not funny. :p
Jesus take the wheel jokes are always funny
I think it's a joke
I trust Jesus will keep me safe.
Like holy shit why would you see this and thick that OP is really doing this for real?
Clean your windshield (correctly) and get some polarized sunglasses
But first he should surrender his driver's license after revealing he's a careless threat to his road safety & others'.
Or! And hear me out, here. A wile E. Coyote style painted brick wall.
Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.
\*slams brakes in the middle of the road*
NO EXCEPTIONS
You’d kill less people that way
I'm not sure the people driving behind me would agree
They'll survive. Their cars might not...
Nobody will die , so I'm not sure what you're saying.
Rear-ending someone at highway speed is pretty fucking dangerous to everyone involved
Is this the only argument?
Because while that's dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.
My point is that people won't die, not that it's a good thing to do.
People die from being rear-ended or rear-ending someone all the time though
should've had following distance.
Indeed. However, it won't do you much good if you're being blinded by the light and can't see.
I can't control the car behind me and I definitely don't want them slamming into me
Irs actually not dangerous in the same way driving blind is. I doubt you care about crumple Zones.
In one situation you drive blindly into an accident… the other “well rear ending can sometimes be bad!!!!”
It never is. The you’re wrong, crazy, and also stupid.
You’re entire argument is “driving blindly is safer than stopping blindly” it’s dumb. It’s a dumb argument. When is going ever safer than stopping lol? You are dumb.
You do realize that if you are driving blind on a highway you would probably rear-end someone, same thing you would do by slamming on the breaks lol
They’d live to disagree. The people you kill by driving blind wouldn’t. That survivorship biase
clean your windshield that shit is dirty as fuuck
If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.
Big if true!
As I understand, some have several digits at the very end of those forelimbs and possess sufficient dexterity to use specifically the middle one of those to block the bright light.
GTFOH troll. Stop playing on fantasy land.
* but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.
Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
What is your name traveller... 😆
I would love to see Limmy on Lemmy. He'd fit right in here.
Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.
I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled "you cannot park there mate" 😉
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!
Slow the fuck down?
Car brainrot is real
I’m pretty sure the meme is a joke.
Literally said "literally"
I’m still pretty sure the meme is a joke. Ever heard of context clues?
I hate cars more than anything on this planet. And my great sorrow is that when I die, I will never have seen a car-free day in my life.
You could spend a day camping in the wilderness before you die?
Do you camp in the wilderness? Because most people insist on bringing their car or their SUV with them.
I make it a point to cycle to provincial parks and use rustic camp grounds, but most of these still have parking spaces. In fact, the provincial parks here literally have a disclaimer on their website to warn people that some camp sites are not accessible by car. You have to tick a box that says "I understand this camp ground is not accessible by car".
And if people want to go on crown/public lands where wild camping is permitted, then they're probably gonna use a fucking car.
I camp in the wilderness. I can still hear the cars. There is no escape. You'd have to go way out into the wild to be free from noise pollution. Or other pollution. And there's still going to be both.
So go to one of those campsites inaccessible by car and spend a couple days
That's the point. You have to traverse serious wilderness to get away from it. It used to be the normal state of the world. Now it's all fucking smog and 24/7 engine noise. You'd have to go seriously off grid to get away from it.
I do, I do. There's always engine noise. You can't escape it. I can't even imagine what life must have been like five hundred years ago. It must have been so quiet and peaceful. No cars, no radios, no tvs, no planes, not the constant droning of some kind of engine, not even lights.
In the evenings it would be calm and quiet and dark, apart from conversation, maybe some birds chirping, the sounds of an inn cooking dinner and serving guests, the only light coming from flickering candles or torches or fires. Streets were for walking. You'd meet people, friends, enemies, children, pretty girls, and I believe it would all be fairly hushed early in the evening, because people would go to bed when it was dark and no further work could be done for the day, and men would sit huddled around campfires and drink whatever beverage they had, like wine or beer, from bottles made of glass or clay.
Sure, there'd be some serious drawbacks to that life too, but at least their air wasn't poison, they didn't breathe poison.
I've seen another "joke" like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it's funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can't see shit around them.
You saw a joke and you though "this just be what most people truly believe"?
Can you walk me through how you reached that conclusion?
Just perform a safety squint.
Can't stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.
That’s the sun >.>
yeah well someone should do something about this "sun"
yeah and it drives like an asshole
It seems like the sun is being reflected off the bus's window.
Would polarising glasses help?
No, it's the actual direct fucking Sun ffs
Oh right.
Had to look at it a bit longer to realise.
The rear light on that vehicle looked kinda like that of a bus though.
Kill it!
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don't have "the bright" lights.
tbh I'd rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
and have done many times, it's hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can't see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is
This comment section is either too autistic or not autistic enough, because they're either unable to identify the joke in the post, or I'm unable to identify their level 7 advanced satire.
4D Checkers
Okay well maybe you should count me in with the autistics because what I see in that post is a filthy windshield and driver can't see the road with the sun in their eyes and he's also taking a picture while driving. Major threat to road safety.
It's just a silly "Jesus take the wheel" joke
We identify the joke, it's just not very funny
Nothing says "I can tell this is a joke, but it's not funny" like telling OP that they're acting dangerously as though they're actually doing this, and giving them actual advice as though they asked for any.
/s
Joke not funny, advice dumb. People no haha, give better advice.
Judging by those advice posts being massively upvoted - seems most agree.
Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I'm talking about.
What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?
Even if it wasn't funny, if you recognize it as a joke, none of the behavior makes sense. This smells strongly of lying to save face.
Once again, I can't tell if you're too autistic to understand a joke, or I'm too autistic to understand your advanced satire.
You should change your username to PermanentlyPedantic
Can't answer my questions, then huh?
Do you have any theories on why you resorted to ad hominem instead?
Well I for one don't get the joke. What's the joke?
It's just a "Jesus take the wheel" joke.
The humor is in the absurdity itself.
Thanks for the pointer. I had to look it up. That song never entered my (British) consciousness and I guess that's not a thing in the UK.
I think with Lemmy it's almost always the former
This is lemmy. The only way in ze real life we could deal with jokes is by pretending to not get them, and now it's even taking over our online lives! AAAAAAAH!
this is so a pre-2010s problem
the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights
bUt ThEyRe StOcK aNd AiMeD pRoPeRlY
and at night, when you realise their high beams were off the whole time... the hard way
most of the time when I get flashed back, it doesn't even matter. their high beams aren't any brighter than the low beams, they're just aimed higher, and since their lowbeams are already aimed above my head, it doesn't make a difference when they turn their high beams on to light up the tree tops
it still is pretty funny when you can tell that they've turned their high beams on by a tiny bit more light up above, but it has no effect on you. It's a pretty clear indication that their low beams are too bright
But I need to outshine the quasar at the center of the galaxy to see where I'm going!
Funny thing about rocks, they are everywhere. Grab one and get crackin
Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?
They can get scratched up, but if you haven't cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.
People who vape in their car need to do it minimum monthly. The film of glycol just makes everything look smeared.
Vaping in my car is what made me start keeping a microfiber cloth in my door pocket. The vape went away, but the cloth is actually really handy for cleaning off the window when sitting at red lights. Would recommend to everyone that drives.
Do not casually drive in Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945.
Okay but what if I'm in a Toyota ae86 and need to deliver sushi?
It means it's time to get serious.
Tofu*
I've been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don't know how to handle it, destroy your driver's license.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads.... FFS.
Maybe calm down a bit?
It's a meme sure, but it's a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn't entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.
Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
How calm should I be about driver's being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because "lol, what was I supposed to do?!?" .... Exactly?
Can't see? Don't drive. It's not fucking rocket surgery.
Because it's a meme on a meme community?
I've been having a shit week and I don't mean to be a dick about it.
I'm not sure why I give this much of a shit about a post that should be ha-ha funny.
I'm sorry.
I hope you're doing better, or will be soon. The world's a shitty place at the minute. Keep the faith! Sorry if I've brought you down further.
I appreciate that. I can't say anything is better right now, but I can say that I think I'm handling it better. So that's something, I guess?
Either way, I wanted to thank you very much for your words. Be well.
Lmao, folk really be driving in light mode.
Take a photo of your filthy windshield in the sun so you have something to post as engage-bait when you get home…
Or don’t ever outside and just repost other people’s engage-bait…
Either way.
Unfortunately, this is the result of a 50+ year old design in road geometry as much as a defect in your windshield.
There genuinely isn't a grid design that would prevent this scenario at some point in the year
Chicago even gets excited about their Chicagohenge twice a year.
Dead on East/West roads have it far worse than rolling highways set at North/South angles.
That's just not true though. Most of the year in the northern hemisphere, roads angled to the southwest are much worse than roads heading dead west during sunset.
Bleurgh
Polarized sunglasses.
Of course, just step on the gas. But more importantly, don't forget to shout "FOR FRODO!! while doing it.
Oh hey Jesus, mind taking the wheel bud? Thanks!
I only do it with 3 or 4 bars of signal. I wouldn't want my livestream to cut out during such a high intensity moment.
Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.
Edit: the earth is round. I apologize for my mid-latitude chauvinism. Adjust angles per lattitude.
http://stevekluge.com/astronomy/riseazimuth.html
The Sun moves around a lot over a year. I don't think it's practical to try to plan a grid around it.
Sure it is! In the northern hemisphere, instead of 45° going east-to-west, just plan in for 45° going west-to-east. It's foolproof!
Yes, it does. But it would be higher at the 45°’s and not in your face. We planned a grid on the compass one way, it would have been no more difficult the other way.
I believe it depends on the latitude, since away from the equator the Sun rises at an angle and not straight up. It can be low enough to still be below the visor, but risen enough to have moved far enough south (if in the northern hemisphere) to be problematic when driving southeast in the morning or southwest in the evening.
I found this image on Google search that I think illustrates the phenomenon: https://share.google/okYRf16lB1vegnVax
Laughing in 60°N
Looks like some sort of red light is off to the side, so probably stopped?
That's a truck tail light...
Oh, true. Doubly hopefully stopped if they're that close to the vehicle in front of them.
Do you think being stopped means it’s safe to use your phone behind the wheel?
How are you supposed to make an evasive maneuver if the car behind you can’t stop? Or if someone starts crossing the road and is now laying on the road from falling?
Hope you aren't using a phone to send this. Who knows what could happen during that time. Maybe someone puts the big red launch nukes button under your foot and you start nuclear winter when you go to stand up.
That’s obviously something that’s impossible to happen.
If you think that neither of those are possible, or countless others… you’re a hazard on the road. There is absolutely no reason to use your phone while stopped, anything can happen, and you won’t notice while you’re sending that text.
The life of you or someone else isn’t more important than whatever is on your phone.
You seem to think getting rear ended while stopped at a light is an impossibility… that’s clearly not true and there’s plenty of statistics to support this is entirely possible and does happen. Now, you can also avoid the collision if you’re paying attention and have space. But obviously that can’t happen if you’re too preoccupied with your phone, instead of the road. Like you’re supposed to. At all times.
How are you supposed to make an evasive manoeuvre at all when standing still?
Move your foot from the brake to the gas and steer out of the way…? Same way you would move for emergency vehicles. Which is another reason to pay attention to the road.
How is this even a question lmfao.
You're not quickly getting your car out of the way of someone else if you're fully stopped. Most of them don't accelerate nearly fast enough for that. Besides, pretty sure I would just stall the car if I tried evading someone quickly while probably slightly panicked.
You don't do an evasive manoeuvre for emergency vehicles. You should hear and see them coming from quite a distance. You just scoot over in a regular way.
You’re still driving a car while stopped mate. This is the reasoning that leads to people drinking while they are stopped. They aren’t technically driving… but it’s obviously not safe and shouldn’t be done.
Yet people condone it? Fucking hell.
🤨 can't tell if serious
You could get hit by a meteorite while not driving, so you must always have full attention at steering wheel
What it's like to ride a motorcycle at sunrise:
Use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_visor.
You gotta sue the sun and the civil engineer that designed the road system that takes me East in the morning and west in the evening
Never live west of work? Unless you’re job hopping frequently, there’s a few choices you can make while picking a house to make life easier.
Get a south facing door so the snow can melt, live east of work so you’re not driving into the sun, don’t live in a valley. Stuff like that.
No thanks I'd rather take my chances in court. If I can get enough people together I think we have a good shot at a class action against the sun
If you can't see the road look to the right side to keep yourself in the lane or look at the double yellow line. I'm no help at avoiding the other cars in your lane but this should keep you moving forwarded instead of brake checking the person behind you
Slam!
Let the boys be boys
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