Lol, what a journey!
It’s not the fact that you can’t see the road that tells you your lights are off, it’s the dashboard.
But that is def how people’s brainholes work actually.

Also, there are cars that don’t have automatic headlights and have an (I assume on of those fully) LCD dashboards?
Around my parts the former predates the latter (in high end cars, like the S-class not by a whole bunch, but still, and there are those 70s cars with monochromatic LCDs, but still). Or is it a regional thing (eg how USA didn’t allow for anything automatic in headlights until very recently & expensive European cars in USA movies always had some cheap projector headlights)?

Oh, global models have a lot more than two, several per country per model.

Ofc lights have a legitimate purpose.
They are absolutely paramount to read safety (fuck cars tho for that safety even being in question - even tho I like cars, I want trains too or at least cars on trains).

I can’t imagine having a car with incandescent lights anymore (like with lots of other tech - like tires).

I use fog lights (first back, then front) if I literally can’t see taillights in front of me at like a bit over 50(-ish)m & reduced speed.

I love high beams too, it gives me so much better side-of-the-road awareness (animals), but I also have one finger on the (adaptive) button all the time in case the camera fails & starts closing the gap on a car (no, I don’t have an IR camera :/).

It’s also stupid how like 20+ (25+?) year old cars have adaptive high beams (where they don’t shine in other cars), automatic leveling of headlights (to prevent what OP posted), and even IR cameras (with ppl & animal spotting & even highlighting), etc - and the auto industry just kept it all as an expensive add-on for so many years (things changed slowly, but it’s still not standard).

At least the lawmakers mandated auto-emergency-braking on new cars (again after 20 years).

Oh, another example, the French had adaptive (non- high beam) headlights to see around the corner in 1967, yet this is still not mandated.

Modern are ofc better - and perhaps fill the purpose you mention you use fog lights for.

… finding out what’s going on or loving that long both sound like very risky propositions with dubious upsides.

(The guns don’t need to be fake for this meme to still work correctly.)

Maybe it’s also bcs it’s a global model & some markets do have prescribed a max & a min height of a headlight from the ground (I heard even UK had or has that).

It’s also why trucks in EU have regular headlamps closer to the ground compared to those in USA.

Lol, that all sounds correct unfortunately.

The cars with headlights that I find glaring are usually/more often unadjusted low-beams.
Or fog lamps bcs “iT mAKeS It lOoK sPorTIeR”.

Interestingly I can code my DRLs (front and back - diffident markets have different rules regarding what DRLs are & when are needed) to different levels & at default they are at 20 or 30% (the 100% being when used with regular headlights on, probably).

I tried it bcs I was curious & set it to 100%, but was def distracting & I reset them immediately (I didn’t even do both sides, just the right one to have a comparison).

… but this has got to be a failure of state (legislature & enforcement) on both counts, right?

Taxpayers should be more demanding of some pubic servants (like politicians, even judges in some cases/countries).
Maybe bring that French democracy device on the next electrons.

Just ban high-positioned lights (or high vehicles in general), have them mandatory tested every year for alignment, fine folk with incorrect use of high-beansbeams or fog lights. And, you know, something about guns.

Polygraphs™ - an advanced AI powered system that asks the test subject complex questions such as “Who did you vote for?” and “Would you stand up and shout ‘MAGA’ whist doing a salute?”.

The admiral-general irl meeting confirmed to them they need to purge the military chain of command if they wanna do any couping.

First of all:

The territorial waters of Israel extend into the sea to a distance of twelve nautical miles measured from the appropriate baseline.

wiki/Geography_of_Israel

And second - both counties said they wouldn’t defend the flotilla even if Israel attacks them in international waters, they were there only to rescue the survivors after the attack.

Italian & Spanish warships … just spontaneously sunk themselves to avoid doing anything?

Majestic!

Thx for sharing.

I know it’s cats, but geese tax is required since you made the mistake of publicly declaring their being.

Superb kitties!!

Later is above my wildest expectations?

Unrealistic af.

Regular ass butt(er)fly is already a tall order, I won’t even dream of becoming a majestic moth.

So you saying with AI I can date this person? :|

… is this the part where you tell me you were dead all along, but that is not the reason for your nickname?

Do you chime on top of every hour like the real Ben? ;)

Your wife cultivating their own microsphere and convectively creates airflows to disperse their spores?
Great wife material, you must be an adequate substrate.

Zip-tie the tip ties together! :)

We are the magic shrooms.