Re: Braking
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:09 pm
I'm not impartial on this. Mean beam on a lit street may or may not be helpful: I don't even understand why some assume that it would have changed anything to that situation. If someone is happy to emerge from a side road without having a look first, chances are, there is a reason for that, but until we know what that reason is, it's all speculation.
As someone with quite light sensitive eyes, I really struggle with the glare from other cars and even as a pedestrian, would consider cars driving on full beam on lit streets to be rude. After all, there is always that brake pedal, unless you are categorically sure that no one is affected (but if that were the case, there wouldn't be any need for full beam in the first place).
Also, with modern LED lights, it's no always easy to tell whether a car is approaching perpendicularly to one's direction of travel if that car is unsighted.
But then again, I'm partial on this.
As someone with quite light sensitive eyes, I really struggle with the glare from other cars and even as a pedestrian, would consider cars driving on full beam on lit streets to be rude. After all, there is always that brake pedal, unless you are categorically sure that no one is affected (but if that were the case, there wouldn't be any need for full beam in the first place).
Also, with modern LED lights, it's no always easy to tell whether a car is approaching perpendicularly to one's direction of travel if that car is unsighted.
But then again, I'm partial on this.