[Kat26806]

I’m in the South, too, and find that rural areas are a problem, for two reasons: 1) More trucks on the road with “higher” low beams, either because they ride so high off the ground that they appear brighter, or because they actually are stronger, and 2) If you’re unaccustomed to passing lots of other cars, you can quickly forget to dim them, just from a lack of practice.

Often I’ve flipped my high beams on while driving the backroads and more often than not gotten blinded for the effort – what I thought were high beams were actually just powerful low beams. I think this is still taught in Driver’s Ed, but I doubt it’s a question of rudeness.

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[Augustine23660]

I was always taught that you should only burn your bright auto headlights when you need the extra visibility and there is neither oncoming traffic nor anyone in front of you. I suppose some people were never taught this, and it is a major reason I do not drive at night unless I have to. It is much more prevalent in rural areas of the South, for some reason. Do they not teach this in drivers’ education anymore, or is this just rude people who don’t care who they’re blinding?

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[Christy32120]

I’ve been blinded since I moved back to Texas two years ago, though otherwise Texans are the most polite of people. I figure it’s because I’m a sports-car driver in a pickup-truck state. Like ‘Dim those darn things,’ I’ve been fooled into brighting an oncoming driver who, it turned out, just had high-aiming low beams. Proper headlight alignment is part of the state vehicle inpection here, but something more needs to be done….

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