# Chill out with the fucking headlights dipshit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385 "2003-01-03T07:30:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/1 "2003-01-03T07:30:02Z")
Shit on a hickory stick, WTF is up with assholes adding “driving/fog” lights to cars? Look, assholes, you might think you are badass adding these lights, but at night when I can’t see shit, you royally piss me off! You might think your halogen superbeams help you see. Sure, but fuck the other person who has to deal with your bullshit? Screw you! It is irritating to no end to see your 4 light Autozone aftermarket crap blinding me because you think it’s fucking cool to add goofy bullshit lights to your piece of shit ride. And you think it’s realy cool, when I flash my brights, you turn on another set of bullshit lights. I hope you fall and trip, and have sharp slivers of your badass halogen lights up your illuminated ass! ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/2 "2003-01-03T07:40:10Z")
OH MY GOD!! I was JUST thinking something along these lines while on the way home tonite!! ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/3 "2003-01-03T08:05:05Z")
It is all about aim. They are the ones who pee on the wall too. We have folks out here who use country low beams… ( aimed high to see better out in the country and to spot deer and such better. They can not be bothered to drive slower, use the hi / low switch and in general be nicer about it when it is raining and things are really difficult. Been wondering if I can get good enough with my sling shot to start taking out theses oh so $$$$ lights? Then the guy in the loaded pickup closes right up behind you and there is no where to save your eyes… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/4 "2003-01-03T23:44:02Z")
I have to agree that halogen headlights are way too blinding to opposing traffic. How did they ever get approved for use? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/5 "2003-01-03T23:55:53Z")
\ Interestingly, I just read in my latest AAA magazine that there’s a movement afoot to get rid of these, or at least a movement to bitch about them. More and more people are annoyed with them. Lots of times it’s simply because they are not aligned properly. \ Yeah, they fucking piss me off, too! ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/6 "2003-01-04T00:35:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*I have to agree that halogen headlights are way too blinding to opposing traffic. How did they ever get approved for use? > Esprix \*\* They’re not too blinding if they use legal wattages. Its mostly the dumb fucks that don’t know how to aim them properly is the problem. \ Uh, dat looks aboot right! \ ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/7 "2003-01-04T01:00:15Z")
My dad has fog lights installed on his truck (Dodge Ram, V10, Doolie - Dualie?). He uses them for - Fog. Thats it - I’ve never seen him turn them on otherwise, but he and mom are REALLY rural and sometimes he needs them to even get off his acreage. On main roads he would never use them - anyone who did is a bit of a dipship, no? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/8 "2003-01-04T02:29:24Z")
If it makes anyone ('specially the OP) feel any better, I have actually had a chance to have a conversation with one of these halogen lights idiots. It was a young airman who was a client rep for our company’s contract on base. He was going on and on about his cool new fog lights. I said “you don’t use them when it’s not foggy do you”? (picture me, older mom-type, gently but firmly questioning him). He says “yeah, they’re really cool”!!! So I say, “um, are you aware that they are too bright and hurt people’s eyes”? He answers "yeah, but screw those people, they deserve it, I’m “getting” all the people with “brights”!! (wtf???). So I (full - ON outraged mom mode) answer "Do YOU know that I am ONE of those people who are blinded by people like you? And you KNOW me, we’ve worked together, the people who are in oncoming cars being blinded by your lights aren’t just some hopped up little testosterone impaired punks like you that you need to “get”. They are innocent people like ME doing NOTHING wrong, but yet are being blinded by you ANYWAY. Those lights HURT!!! Why on EARTH would you think that THAT is “cool”??? Young airman says nothing, but is suitably impressed and shame-faced. Hope that makes you feel a WEEE bit better OP, at least ONE person out there knows it’s NOT “cool”. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/9 "2003-01-04T03:52:42Z")
Exactly, **CanvasShoes**! I don’t begrudge people who use these lights for legitimate reasons. But for example, where I live we virtually never have fog, yet I see these aftermarket lights all over, and regularly get blasted by whom I suspect are shitheads with the attitude you describe. And way to go dressing down the abovementioned idiot! “Outraged Mom Mode™” is not something to be on the receiving end of. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/10 "2003-01-04T04:06:54Z")
So what you need is a turret mounted lighthouse beacon that you can aim at these fucknuggets and just blast them right back. Once, when I was younger and more reckless and foolish, I was in the back seat of a car driving on the freeway and some asswart with a pile of lights starts tailgating us. I pulled a mirror out of my purse and started shining his lights right back into his face. He ended up passing us without blowing our heads off, which is fortunate… ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/11 "2003-01-04T04:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*So what you need is a turret mounted lighthouse beacon that you can aim at these fucknuggets and just blast them right back. > > Once, when I was younger and more reckless and foolish, I was in the back seat of a car driving on the freeway and some asswart with a pile of lights starts tailgating us. I pulled a mirror out of my purse and started shining his lights right back into his face. He ended up passing us without blowing our heads off, which is fortunate… \*\* * * * Slightly “off topic” but, I’ve gotten the “tilt” of my side driver’s mirror down to a science for those morons that pull up behind you, just EVER so slightly offset and too close so that their driver’s side headlight shines RIGHT back off of your side mirror into your eyes, …anyway,I’ve got the tilt at JUST the right angle so that their lights go right back at them. (I can tell, because when I tilt it, they generally QUICKLY back off). Unfortunately, that’s not always enough to get the tailgaters to back off, I want some sort of mirrored panel attached to the rear of my car, so that those morons get a BIG, BRIGHT taste of their own medicine!!! ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/12 "2003-01-04T04:16:07Z")
Yeah, Opal, When I have one behind me, I have actually tried to angle my rearview to blast them back. Not sure if it worked. As with you, I didn’t get shot, and it probably wasn’t a smart move. I just let them by if I can. ---
**Author:** ![Peutl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Peutl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peutl)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/13 "2003-01-04T13:42:23Z")
What puzzles me is the one blue-white glare twinned with the more familiar yellow glow. I see it more and more. OK, you need a new headlight, and thought you’d get the latest. But spending an additional $3.00 so your headlights match is out of the question? I solve the glare problem by flipping the rear-view mirror to the dark side, as it were. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/14 "2003-01-04T13:47:07Z")
I would be willing to bet that the mismatched blue/yellow combination is because some stupid kid asked his car parts place for HID, or something, and then just figured they would match up. HID, Halogens, Plasma lights… all different things. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/15 "2003-01-04T15:00:12Z")
I had a 67 chrysler with four headlights. I managed to put my hands on a set of aircraft landing lights that were, oh, hell, I don’t know, as bright as the surface of the sun? they fit perfectly in the “high beam” light frames, and the connector plugged right in. I loved these when driving alone through country roads at night- it was like driving in daytime! (though I had to install a bigger alternator) I never used them around other cars because I WAS afraid of blinding someone- or burning the paint off their car!.. These days, I see a dipstick with badly aimed and overpowered halogens, I just hope he leaves his lights on someday and drains his battery so deeply that it sucks the life out of the NEW battery they put in. I’m as against new government regulations as anyone, but limiting the on-road allowable wattage? maybe not such a bad idea. I’ve also wondered why they can’t polarize the headlights so you can wear a (lightly) polarized pair of glasses (or polarize windshields)and almost eliminate oncoming headlight glare. b. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/16 "2003-01-04T18:26:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*So what you need is a turret mounted lighthouse beacon that you can aim at these fucknuggets and just blast them right back. > \*\* True, true. So many of the world’s problems could be cured with turret mounted ANYTHINGS on the top of automobiles. Lighthouse beacons, sling shots, bazookas. Can we get the NRA working on this, please? -Myron ---
**Author:** ![kiteboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9c0ed/32.png) [@kiteboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiteboy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/17 "2003-01-04T18:51:43Z")
Part of the problem is that large pickups & SUV’s have their headlights mounted higher off the ground. Even when aimed properly, if they get up close behind you, the beams shine right over the back of the car. I want a lighted marquee panel across the bottom of my rear window, that I can display text messages on: “Please do not tailgate. Thanks!” “Please turn off highbeams. Thanks!” and for persistant dipshits: “Your unsafe and inconsiderate driving behavior is being videotaped and the highway patrol is being contacted…” Maybe I won’t even get shot 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chill-out-with-the-fucking-headlights-dipshit/146385/18 "2003-01-05T00:40:41Z")
LOL Kiteboy!! I’ve thought of the marquee idea too!! Only my reader displays weren’t as polite as yours are.