Do any of you have this problem.

[erzelda]

Bright headlights at night.

It seems a lot of people are driving with highbeams on and don't know or care.

Being in a lower slung Z car I can understand that trucks and SUVs and some larger higher stance cars would be shining more towards my windshield but then again maybe the lights aren't positioned right.

From the back the answer is easy enough, limo window tint - but then the lights in the side mirrors shine right back in my eyes.

Sometimes I'd like to shoot something back - lead or intense spot light -

but I'm expected - as an elder statesman so to speak; to set a better example.

Anyone else notice this?

[venus]

I can't see sh$t at night. Everyones headlights are at my eye level in my 240Z, Miata, RX-7. I'm like a vampire that has to be in before the sun sets.

[cozye]

In most cases they don't have their brights on. You are just directly where typical suv and truck headlights are aimed. There isn't much you can do about it. It's not the other drivers fault. I've noticed this as well. The worst time is when you are on a dual lane, and they are to your back left.

[5thhorsemann]

I look down at the right side white line for the oncoming, this keeps pupil dialation to a minimum, and try to drive faster than the follower.

[zbane]

This happens to me in both my cars, and on both I try to aim the external mirrors back at them. There are times though, due to their driving, that I simply pull over and let them pass. Being tailgated on twisties at night in the rain is no fun; less so when it's a higher riding vehicle (or Sheriff Deputy).

The infiniti has a retractable privacy screen that helps with the rear window, but that's all it does.

[zhead240]

i find the high intensity blue head lites very annoying even at low beem. usually found on expensive vehicles. i'm surprised the ministry of transportation would allow them.

[d240zx2]

Yeah, I agree. It's our ride heights. We're low and swoopy. The big guys gotta have a ladder (relatively speaking) to even get into their behemoths. To quote a well-known airline cabin attendant after a particularly rough landing, "It's not the pilot's fault, it's the asphalt."

[signal34]

It's not just the ride height of our Z's. I do a lot of night driving in a vehicle with a more average ride height and I have noticed over the last few years that there are far more drivers that just simply don't dim their bright lights.

[spdcrazy]

It's not just the ride height of our Z's. I do a lot of night driving in a vehicle with a more average ride height and I have noticed over the last few years that there are far more drivers that just simply don't dim their bright lights.

ya i do alot of driving at nite due to my job starting at 6am and it takes me 1.5 hrs to get there! seems about 50% of the hwy drivers don't care to dim their lights, most of them do dim when you flash them tho. and truck drivers do a really good job in most cases.

i'm young, but i feel blinded by these HID and crazy blue lights.. sucks...

[erzelda]

Good to know I'm not entirely falling apart. It doesn't help that I've been working night for over 30 years and I am sensitive to bright light but sunglasses help that.

I thought the blue lights were bad enough - someone is running a bright green.

And now even the tail lights are getting too bright.

Would someone please invent an electrical zapper that will shut down the other car's electricals and most important the driver's surgically implanted cell phone.

[Decoy12]

I like to keep my distance between me and the car in front of me for safety reasons. One day a guy in a large SUV (the kind that feel invincible and that they own the road) felt that I wasn't driving "fast" enough to catch up to the guy in front of me. So rather than going around me (gas is too much $$ and I will not go any faster) he decides to flash me. So I let him go around and in front of me and decide to flash him back! Well being that his car is 3 to 5 times higher, it really didn't affect him much, but it made me feel better .

I've only used the aiming the side view mirrors back at the technique once with success, but on another car with those electrically controlled ones.

What would be awesome, to me, is if we could install mirrors on the hatch that could flip open to have the person's highs be reflected back at them, but that's just me.

[erzelda]

Well if you really want to scare someone - prob drive off the road too - consider strobe lights - front and back.

An English magician came up with that and other amazing illusions in WWII.

The strobe lights were so successflu in hiding the port of Alexandria that the German pilots became so disoriented that more crashed from the strobe lights than were shot down at night.