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Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
Clean your windshield, inside and out,
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Then stand still
I don’t think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.
Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.
Maybe you just suck?
Let me ask you this
You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?
I think you need a breather, my friend
Wash your window, dumbass.
Why… why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?
Because he points to the left and thy wanted to point to the comment above
Oh. My bad, it never even cross my mind. So it’s basically the gif equivalent of “This.”?
this is so a pre-2010s problem
the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights
bUt ThEyRe StOcK aNd AiMeD pRoPeRlY
Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.
\*slams brakes in the middle of the road*
NO EXCEPTIONS
You’d kill less people that way
I’m not sure the people driving behind me would agree
They’ll survive. Their cars might not…
Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.
Rear-ending someone at highway speed is pretty fucking dangerous to everyone involved
should’ve had following distance.
Indeed. However, it won’t do you much good if you’re being blinded by the light and can’t see.
Is this the only argument?
Because while that’s dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.
My point is that people won’t die, not that it’s a good thing to do.
People die from being rear-ended or rear-ending someone all the time though
Can’t stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.
That’s the sun >.>
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don’t have “the bright” lights.
tbh I’d rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
and have done many times, it’s hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can’t see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is
You stick your head out the window like Ace Ventura
Instructions unclear. Stuck my head out of a rhinoceros’ ass.
No I think you nailed it
reverse-nailed it, more like.
I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.
Maybe calm down a bit?
Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
How calm should I be about driver’s being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because “lol, what was I supposed to do?!?” … Exactly?
Can’t see? Don’t drive. It’s not fucking rocket surgery.
Because it’s a meme on a meme community?
I’ve been having a shit week and I don’t mean to be a dick about it.
I’m not sure why I give this much of a shit about a post that should be ha-ha funny.
I’m sorry.
I hope you’re doing better, or will be soon. The world’s a shitty place at the minute. Keep the faith! Sorry if I’ve brought you down further.
I appreciate that. I can’t say anything is better right now, but I can say that I think I’m handling it better. So that’s something, I guess?
Either way, I wanted to thank you very much for your words. Be well.
I seriously hope OP has stopped to take that pic and didn’t just pull out the phone while driving to do this.
Looks like some sort of red light is off to the side, so probably stopped?
That’s a truck tail light…
Oh, true. Doubly hopefully stopped if they’re that close to the vehicle in front of them.
Do you think being stopped means it’s safe to use your phone behind the wheel?
How are you supposed to make an evasive maneuver if the car behind you can’t stop? Or if someone starts crossing the road and is now laying on the road from falling?
Hope you aren’t using a phone to send this. Who knows what could happen during that time. Maybe someone puts the big red launch nukes button under your foot and you start nuclear winter when you go to stand up.
That’s obviously something that’s impossible to happen.
If you think that neither of those are possible, or countless others… you’re a hazard on the road. There is absolutely no reason to use your phone while stopped, anything can happen, and you won’t notice while you’re sending that text.
The life of you or someone else isn’t more important than whatever is on your phone.
You seem to think getting rear ended while stopped at a light is an impossibility… that’s clearly not true and there’s plenty of statistics to support this is entirely possible and does happen. Now, you can also avoid the collision if you’re paying attention and have space. But obviously that can’t happen if you’re too preoccupied with your phone, instead of the road. Like you’re supposed to. At all times.
You’re still driving a car while stopped mate. This is the reasoning that leads to people drinking while they are stopped. They aren’t technically driving… but it’s obviously not safe and shouldn’t be done.
Yet people condone it? Fucking hell.
🤨 can’t tell if serious
You could get hit by a meteorite while not driving, so you must always have full attention at steering wheel
Slam!
