On Nov 20, 3:26 pm, Paul Anderson > wrote:
> In article > ,
> "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" > wrote:
>
> > Nobody but the deadly criminal speeders who drive over 70 at night need
> > them and they obviously don't count. Many people use their brights at
> > night but then forget about them and blind oncoming traffic and cause
> > crashes.
>
> I drive on many unlit local roads and need the high-beams to see the
> road ahead and am not a deadly criminal speeder.
>
> But those who don't turn off the high-beams when they approach a car (in
> either direction) are rude. The ones approaching you can be alerted by
> flashing your lights, but the ones in back of you are more difficult
> since they blind you for a longer period of time and there's no obvious
> way to tell them to lower their lights.
>

Agreed.

It ought to be legal to smash out the brights of the car behind you at
a stop light with a Mag-Lite or whatever suitable instrument you carry
under your seat.

nate

(who just had one of these pricks behind him this morning...)