When you are piloting a giant cage of steel and glass, the burden is on you to drive properly, and—short of someone literally running out in front of your car before you can see him—that means yielding to pedestrians. On the interstate it’s someone behind you that wants you to move over to the right lane because you aren’t doing 80 – 85 mph.Pedestrians have the right-of-way and are at much greater risk of injury than you – this is a dick move on your part, IMO.CAR COMING BEHIND ME AND FLASHING LIGHTS A FEW TIME AT NIGHTOther than that, the 2 or 3 times it’s happened to me it’s just been some giant idiot who seems to want me to merge over, usually in really heavy traffic, so they can get that one more car length ahead of me, but no extra speed. Our Altima has a continually lit dash. 3. slang To think of or recall something. (noun) An example of a flash is a strike of lightning. Definition of flash a smile in the Idioms Dictionary. I really think that vehicles with automatic headlights should have some warning when the switch is set to ‘Off’ while the car is running that “Hey, it’s dark enough that I would turn the lights on, but the switch is off.”In England at least, people warn each other if there are the rozzers up ahead waiting to give you a speeding ticket.
Never failed to work and only took a couple of seconds.People that don’t know what that blue high beam symbol thingie means don’t deserve a quick, courteous flash–and they’re not smart enough to understand what it means anyway–they deserve a continuous blast and I don’t really care if they dip their high beams in response. I’ve turned mine on by accident at least once, although I went “huh, why is this blue light on on my dashboard?” and turned them off.Am I the only one who tries to refrain from flashing his/her headlights whenever possible, simply because it can’t possibly be good for the longevity of today’s Xenon HID headlights?
On that second-last point, I think that the rise of DRLs + automatic headlights + completely lit dashboards is contributing to the spate of people driving around with no lights after dark. Accident? I will have serious props for the first (non-premium) automaker to make automatic headlamps standard.Also on M-14! I’m convinced that the complexity of one’s family tree, or more specifically lack of branches in the tree, makes the blue high beam symbol invisible (and the driver also go 10mph under the limit and unable to steer the vehicle within a single lane).“At night, a flash of headlights, or full beam for a few seconds longer, is a reminder that you’ve left your brights on and that you are a douchebag.”Flashing my high beams at the other driver is a pretty effective way of telling them their headlights are turned off — just a simple double flick of the stalk — or at least I thought so in the past. Most people get the message.
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They get the high beam blast.What is it with the amazing number of people driving around without their headlights on these days anyway? These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or of any other emotion one can consider. I’ll admit I’ve made a similar mistake as I use my fog lamps as DRL on my Wrangler, but even then all marker lamps are lighted as well.I’ve always used “flash a friend” to warn oncoming drivers for at least a mile after I pass a cop sitting on the side of the road. Back in the 1970s, my solution for that (while commuting at night across the New Jersey Pine Barrens from Philadelphia to Toms River) was to carry a hand-held, general-purpose searchlight in my Ford Pinto. Possibly.
He wasn’t really flashing the headlight.Last night, Bozi and I had a short exchange on Twitter about headlight flashing after we both admitted to turning into grumpy old men.Those grille lights on the Mustang *are* complete overkill, and they are annoying to oncoming traffic. I wish it was an option on more cars.^ This. Also, in the west, a river with a large bay, which is againseparated from the outer sea by a reef of rocks.--To make a flash, isto let boats down through a lock; to flash loose powder at night to showposition. It really does help them and you.A couple of weeks ago an oncoming car flashed its headlights to warn me of about a dozen turkeys in the middle of the road about 100 yards ahead.