A humble request to our traffic cops...

Can you please start cracking down on the [cliche] goat felching [/cliche] SUV drivers with headlights improperly angled to shine directly into the rear view mirrors of the normal statured cars in front of them? I know that they come out of the factory that way, but surely it can’t be legal, it must be a hazard right?

It’s a win-win situation really. You’ll get to collect tons of ticket revenue for the city, and I won’t be blinded into an accident.

SUV drivers–all it takes is to get off your lazy ass and make two or three turns with a screwdriver. Voila, you are no longer a goat felching road hazard :slight_smile:

And also those blue headlights.

And the bright white ones.

And those people with onions on their belts.

Silly OP. It’s an evil ploy to get everyone to drive an SUV.
That way we’ll all be goat felchers and no one will be able to tell the difference.

I can’t believe that SUVs are legal at all, but nonetheless, there they are. Turning the headlights down so they don’t blind the rest of us would be a great start, but that wouldn’t eliminate them as a road hazard, in my opinion.

Amen to all.

While we’re at it, let’s start enforcing those California vehicle weight limits, huh? Especially the asshole who regularly parks his Hummer across his/her corner’s handicapped ramp in Noe Valley (San Francisco) because- surprise of fucking surprises- you can’t find parking.

But seriously, I’m really sick of being blinded by some douche in an SUV or pickup (or modded rice rocket) when I’m in my Corolla. Not even the buses or streetcars have that effect. Sorry folks, I don’t care how big your balls are or how much you want attention, I just want you out of the way.

You have good reason.

It’s really pretty easy to aim headlights. What get’s my non-felched goat is the folks who hook up a big honkin’ trailer and don’t make the connection that now that their rear end is loaded down, their front end will be aiming up.

My wife has a Ford Exploder, and I’ve bothered to aim the headlights. I’ll be dumping the Exploder for a hybrid Escape once they become more widely available. Hey. I go camping nearly weekend in the summer, and I need a vehicle with some utility. I’m not getting rid of my SUV, because I use it as intended. When I get the Escape, it’s headlights too will be aimed.

That’s an interesting article Troy McClure SF. I don’t live in the states, so I may have old info, but I heard a while back that anyone claiming that rebate on large trucks has to follow the stricter licencing laws regarding traffic tickets, speeding, etc, meaning that may people driving large SUVs should technically have lost their licence for those infractions.

Which makes sence from a purpose-of-the-whole-thing kinda viewpoint, but would, I imagine, still be surprising to many. :slight_smile:

I even aimed the headlights down on my Miata. A lot of cars have the headlights set too high from the factory.

Ah, yes. The inevitable holier-than-thou, intolerant, undereducated, cram-your-opinions-down-everyone-else’s-throat, clueless idiot jumping into the thread. You don’t like SUVs, so nobody else should be allowed to have them.

Would you like to find me a Honda that can pull a trailer full of cattle? Should I take two vehicles when I have more people than will fit in your Geo? On our monthly shopping trips to the nearest big city, should I rent a trailer to bring back any large items that wouldn’t fit in the trunk of your Camaro? When we get a heavy snowfall, your average street car doesn’t even have the ground clearance to make it down my 1,000-foot driveway, and I don’t always have time to plow it. What the hell do you expect people like me to do if your uninformed bitching makes it illegal for me to own a practical vehicle?

Before you say it, yes, I do own a big pickup truck, and that’s what I usually use for the heavy tasks like hauling hay, carrying construction materials, and pulling horse trailers. Sometimes, though, I need a vehicle with more room inside, and that’s the SUV.

When you and the OP whine about an SUV you see on the road, you have no idea why the driver owns one (and, by the way, I’ve been blinded by headlights on sports cars, too). I wish intolerant snots like you would just keep your massive overgeneralizations to yourself.

In fact, why don’t you take your righteous indignation down to the river and beat it on a rock? Then, when you come to your senses, admit that everyone’s situation isn’t the same as yours.

The xenon headlights issue is different - a lot of the aftermarket lights are made cheaply and don’t focus downward nearly as well. The originals move around a lot, and can cost a couple grand. I think a lot of the unfocused ones may be aftermarket lights retrofitted to the SUV, not OEM stuff.

I’m sure every SUV driver in the suburbs is pulling a bunch of cattle around. :rolleyes:

I think you way jumped the gun and overreacted there, Mr. Wombat.

Read what I was responding to, Anaamika. Featherlou said that SUVs should be illegal. That would mean people with perfectly good reasons to own one wouldn’t be able to. My response is perfectly appropriate for such a ridiculous thesis.

And who said anything about the suburbs? Featherlou didn’t say they should just be illegal in the suburbs. I can’t afford to have an extra vehicle on hand for the times I drive to the suburbs. Should I have to rent a car on those days?

You don’t think you overreacted just a little? **Featherlou’s ** posted a handful of words. You had a book. I can’t say I don’t think we should at least think about the effect SUVs have on our energy reserves, which is what Featherlou was referring to. But you have nothing about that in your post.

Perhaps you could have asked her (him). Featherlou, care to step in here and say what you really meant? Did you mean that all SUVs were to be illegal in truth, or were you hoping for some kind of regulatory power? Care to explain yourself?

Was it Jon Stewart who said he gets the urge to shout after every SUV driver, “Sorry about your PENIS!!!”?

Cops don’t have time for stuff like that. They’re too busy handing out tickets for important things, like accidentally crossing 1/2 inch over the center line while turning a corner, or going 2 mph over the speed limit.

Hear, hear!

That’s an old Corvette joke… predates most SUVs, certainly the current craze

But shining the improperly aligned headlights of my just-this-side-of-legal SUV in the rearview mirrors of all the losers in regular cars is one of the smaller joys in my life. Please don’t take that way from me. It’s bad enough that my penis is so small.