Automatic trans: correct usage at drive-through?

[Splinter]

Find yourself in a narrow drive-through at night, parked 1m away from a big sedan blasting high-powered red light at you, and let's see you look into the darkness vainly I am confident this will happen to all of us in our lifetimes, and I just wonder how many people here will remember when they get annoyed by it to come back and post here that maybe, just maybe, they were wrong.

Oh god OP, it just struck me - if I, or others, now fear to look at brake lights, have you not created a scenario with increased risk of accidents?

 

[Dave]

I will never look at any brake light again - for fear of being blinded.

Get some welding goggles and keep them in your car. Those laser beam lights should be just about viewable.

 

[Foxhound5366]

Oh god OP, it just struck me - if I, or others, now fear to look at brake lights, have you not created a scenario with increased risk of accidents?

Lol, if you're driving at 1km/h in a drivethrough and manage to drive into the car ahead of you because you forgot that it was there because it wasn't blasting you with brake lights for 30 seconds first, you really oughtn't be driving in the first place, never mind increased risk of looking away in the first place.

 

[Splinter]

Get some welding goggles and keep them in your car. Those laser beam lights should be just about viewable.

I dunno hey. I think I will never drive at night again.

Coz, if you think about it, it's not just draaif fru's (tks to that person who posted this ) that have people standing on brakes - what about robots! To many inconsiderate ass-hats who could blind me while waiting for the lights to go green!

 

[Foxhound5366]

I dunno hey. I think I will never drive at night again.

Coz, if you think about it, it's not just draaif fru's (tks to that person who posted this ) that have people standing on brakes - what about robots! To many inconsiderate ass-hats who could blind me while waiting for the lights to go green!

Well even though you're just trying to be snarky, I'll respond to this as if it were a serious point. The difference at traffic lights is that they're generally more well-lit and you've got oncoming headlights and streetlights and even the traffic lights themselves to balance the light palette, so your eyes don't adjust to a darker environment like they do where your car is stationary for a prolonged period.

 

[Dave]

I dunno hey. I think I will never drive at night again.

Coz, if you think about it, it's not just draaif fru's (tks to that person who posted this ) that have people standing on brakes - what about robots! To many inconsiderate ass-hats who could blind me while waiting for the lights to go green!

Have you considered only driving in reverse at night? You wouldn't have to see those high intensity brake lights that way...

 

[LCBXX]

180+ posts on this already. Sheesh.

 

[Foxhound5366]

Have you considered only driving in reverse at night? You wouldn't have to see those high intensity brake lights that way...

Now THIS is your first worthwhile suggestion here: imagine trying that at the drive-through, reversing all the way through Only I'm not sure the other drivers' headlights would be much more pleasant than their brake lights.

 

[Dave]

Now THIS is your first worthwhile suggestion here: imagine trying that at the drive-through, reversing all the way through Only I'm not sure the other drivers' headlights would be much more pleasant than their brake lights.

wearing welding googles was a good idea as well! They would definitely cut the glare.

 

[Splinter]

Well even though you're just trying to be snarky, I'll respond to this as if it were a serious point. The difference at traffic lights is that they're generally more well-lit and you've got oncoming headlights and streetlights and even the traffic lights themselves to balance the light palette, so your eyes don't adjust to a darker environment like they do where your car is stationary for a prolonged period.

Tell me something, are these pitch-black draaif fru's that you seem to attend also twisty ones? because, logically, even if the car ahead of you seared your retina's with it's Death-Star grade brake lights, your next action would be pulling up to the next point in the draaif fru, and you should have plenty of time to take a healing potion and regain your eyesight?

Or do you speed there?

 

[Ancalagon]

Off topic bit you mentioned bright headlights

There's tech in the states that auto dim your high beams when a car approaches. Is that in SA yet?

Actually most technology that automatically adjusts headlights is banned in the States. Could only come to Europe.

 

[Foxhound5366]

Tell me something, are these pitch-black draaif fru's that you seem to attend also twisty ones? because, logically, even if the car ahead of you seared your retina's with it's Death-Star grade brake lights, your next action would be pulling up to the next point in the draaif fru, and you should have plenty of time to take a healing potion and regain your eyesight?

Or do you speed there?

You tell me something Splinter, why would I bother to respond to you seriously when you persistently take a tone like ^^^^? I even responded to your previous snarky comment with a serious response, and as my reward I get ^^^^^^^. I have patience, but not THAT much patience to bother responding to you again.

 

[biometrics]

Is this idiotic thread still going, wtf.

 

[Foxhound5366]

Is this idiotic thread still going, wtf.

The only thing making it idiotic is the idiots who keep derailing it, including yourself. If you have nothing of value to add, maybe just stay out of it? It's not in the off-topic forum.

 

[crackersa]

Actually most technology that automatically adjusts headlights is banned in the States. Could only come to Europe.

Nope.....i seen it advertised on Nissan
Dims your high beams when a car approaches.

Note - i stream American shows so I get American commercials

 

[LCBXX]

The only thing making it idiotic is the idiots who keep derailing it, including yourself. If you have nothing of value to add, maybe just stay out of it? It's not in the off-topic forum.

Speaking of rails: why are there no drive-thru's for trains?

 

[Dave]

The only thing making it idiotic is the idiots who keep derailing it, including yourself. If you have nothing of value to add, maybe just stay out of it? It's not in the off-topic forum.

/sharp intake of breath


You aren't calling people names, are you Foxy? Be careful with those personal attacks

Someone might throw a chocolate coated banana pizza at you...

 

[Sinbad]

/sharp intake of breath


You aren't calling people names, are you Foxy? Be careful with those personal attacks

Someone might throw a chocolate coated banana pizza at you...

Or hold him down and shine a candle in his eyes

 

[Ancalagon]

Nope.....i seen it advertised on Nissan
Dims your high beams when a car approaches.

Note - i stream American shows so I get American commercials

Source

Would be curious to know if those regulations still exist or if Nissan got around them another way.

 

[Dave]

Or hold him down and shine a candle in his eyes

Can you imagine the reaction if someone was to fire a Nikon flash? The combination of yellow flare and the the brightest light know to man would be catastrophic...