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I try to avoid night driving because I've become more sensitive with age. Also there are some amber tinted glasses that are supposed to help. I got some but they must be packed away somewhere. I'll have to look for them.
During the rain is the absolute worst. I wish all roads had the reflective bumps in the road. I guess those aren't practical with snow plows.
I'll give the oncoming car a quick flash from my high beams to let the guy know his lights are too bright, he may at that point flash his bright lights but at least if enough people flash the guy he knows his lights are too bright for oncoming traffic and he may do something about it.
About all you can do is not look directly into the oncoming light source.
When I see a vehicle with very bright or misaligned headlights coming towards me, I slow down before we cross paths. Even looking to the right helps but is not enough. Gradually slow before the path cross. Once the offending vehicle has past and your eyes have readjustment then you can safely speed back up.
This is an easy one. Don't look at them. Continue to focus your attention on a spot just to the right of the headlights. Some drivers are unaware that their lights are mis-aimed, so it might be useful to flash at them. Sooner or later, they will wonder why everyone is flashing at them. Other drivers don't care, so it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you stay in your lane and exercise prudence.
Driving is not always easy, but it helps if you don't get all bent out of shape about other drivers and lose control of your own composure and concentration, and shift your mentality into pay-back mode and think about what you would do to that driver if you had him in a dungeon on a rack with cranks on it..
And don't worry, help is on the way. Soon you will have a car that will drive itself and won't even need headlights.
There is also the alternative of putting your brights on and steering directly toward the offender, so he can't see the road, and he will keep to the right of your lights, which are moving into his lane, so he goes into the ditch. When that works, it works great, but it has a steep downside when it fails.
No, not looking at them does not really work. You still get side swipe from burning light beam.
Flashing at them does not work, as then they WILL turn the REAL HIGH BEAMS on and then you are totally blind. Most of those a - holes have aftermarket HID in NORMAL mode and those are killingly bright as is. So don't provoke them into getting slammed with high beam.
Close eyes? When you are in turn and close to curb? Kidding me?
Seriously, best so far, if for some reason turning cabin light on is extremely prohibitive for you, placing left hand vertical up to cover the lights is best.
Btw, same works great for the driver side rear view mirror, when they hit you from behind with HID.
NHTSA considers HID completely illegal, I had entire post on this, but this country being "I am a free man I do whatever the f... I want to" attitudes keep blinding people with crap you buy on ebay and slap on some beat up car. Have you noticed how the worst offenders actually drive old redneck beaters?
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