Topic: The high-beam during daytime myth

[TwoTired]

People are like deer, instead of looking above at the rider or through the windshield of the car to see where the driver is looking, at the ground, at the sky, his cell phone, etc. they stare right at the light bulb! .

AND... drivers have a natural tendency to drive where they are staring!

[sangyo soichiro]

The article listed above seems a bit fishy though.  The high beam doesn't disguise an oncoming vehicle for me, it just makes it harder to look at so I'm not watching it directly. 

You stated my argument very clearly.  The high beam makes people look away.

The high beam also makes it harder for them to see your turn signals, and they might make it more difficult for the oncoming car to judge your distance.


Everyone intuitively knows that right at sunset or sunrise it is a #$%* to have to drive facing the sun.  I can't see a damn thing.  My windshield is glared and I'm squinting and trying to find a spot on the road to focus on so I stay in my lane.  And if there was a pedestrian walking on the road I would have a #$%* of a time seeing them.  Yeah... I know the sun is there (like I'd know a motorcycle is there), but my ability to drive safely is greatly diminished. 

The high beam has a similar effect.  It's all about photons man.

[dave500]

im with 333,i drive all day,i do it a bit different on the bike as im more at risk,i sometimes flash my beams behind a car who i can see is on the phone to wake them up that im there,i dont use my phone while driving full stop!i think theres a thread on this "everyone is out to squash you"stuff ,and its all true,stay alert,the car full of youngsters in front will swerve into a burger place with no indicators across two lanes taking you out,the people moving house with the insecure load will lose an article in front of you taking you out,the busy courier van dosent give a damn and will take you out,cruising along beside a semi is taking yourself out,i think bright lights in a heavy city traffic situation is better than on the open road,the city has a lot of zig zag traffic where as the open road is head to head mostly.,if you turn your light off then back on it grabs more attention,i do that from time to time.the driver might think "why did he do that to me?"the answer is i did it to everyone.and you noticed me now.

[Gordon]

People are like deer, instead of looking above at the rider or through the windshield of the car to see where the driver is looking, at the ground, at the sky, his cell phone, etc. they stare right at the light bulb! .

AND... drivers have a natural tendency to drive where they are staring!

Which is one of the reasons I don't like the headlight modulators.