1. VT has no high beam laws

2. A lot of trucks / large SUVs in VT. Their height is higher, their low beams are at your eye level

3. Some dipshits install front lift kits and don’t re-angle their low beams resulting in upward angled lows. This is the most uncommon scenario but happens

4. Dont ever flash your highs like that unless it’s an emergency. You could get someone seriously hurt

Someone should talk with georgetti/ the city

I'm renting an SUV at the moment while my small AWD car is being fixed, and twice in the last 3 days I found myself with my beams on high when passing someone. Felt like an asshole. Sorry if I was "that guy"!

Wish we drove similar routes. Can confirm on an hour drive I was high beamed 6 times when I only encountered probably 20 cars. They are not low beams because they need to be reminded to turn them off and they do as they are 20ft away. I believe it’s a misunderstanding of when to turn them off. I do know what you’re saying and I know the newer cars are much brighter, probably brighter than my highs. I also drive a newer car at times. Thank you for what you do I don’t understand how you guys put up with drivers

This right here. I don't flash people about high-beams, but for the longest time, I thought ever person following me was shooting their high-beams at me.

Turns out, my eyes were just sensitive to it.

I wasn't mad at them, but it's a thing that I needed to fix, it wasn't other people, it was me.

They’re not highbeams 95% of the time. Headlights are just way brighter than they used to be. And it’s also possible if not likely that your eyes are becoming more sensitive to bright light over time (speaking from experience on that)

Just got a new car and have been flashed a few times, but it’s just because they’re brand new.

Your lights aren't any brighter than normal headlights. I drive a truck also. There are no safety guidelines that allow you to have brighter lights. There aren't any guidelines for anyone. It's a free for all. If they sell it you can buy it and install it. Only time they can do anything is if the lights you installed aren't DOT compliant.

I hope I didn't give the impression that drivers in the Seattle area are predictable. they are aggressive and unpredictable, which is why it's not uncommon when a light turns green here that folks don't go because you have to see how many assholes are going to continue on their merry way ignoring their red light.

I hate the over courteous thing as well. I t-boned a vehicle 3 years ago because I was driving in the far lane and the other two lanes were backed up so they courteously waved this dumb lady through and she turned right in front of me. Lady didn't even look. Injured my leg and hip and wrist trying my damnedest to stop, not to mention the whiplash. Still makes me so angry, my daughter and I were injured, our almost brand new car will forever have an accident on it's history. 18 months of pain, doctors visits, PT. All because a couple of idiots thought they'd be courteous. We're better now, but I still have random pain in my rt knee and hip.

A lot of new cars need their headlights adjusted. I know both of ours did.

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led ppl are the worst

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I think cars are just bigger and taller with brighter lights now, it sucks

I agree I drove a new rav and the automatic lights were not lowering correctly.

I know a lot of new vehicles have automatic headlight dimming and I don't think they are set correctly. I've said the same thing. I swear I flash my lights more than I ever have

At times, but I’ll be flashing mine and I can see them finally turn them off last minute.

I drive a semi truck 12 hours a day. 99% of people lower their high beams.

A lot of the people who complain about people not turning off their high beams just genuinely don't realize that most of the time the other drivers high beams are OFF. They are just more sensitive to the light or do not realize that some headlights are brighter or appear to be high beams but are not.

PS. Stop flashing your high beams at people that you think have their high beams on. As a semi truck driver that has brighter than normal headlights for safety guideline reasons, people do this a lot and it's incredibly distracting and dangerous. It's more distracting and dangerous than people who just leave their high beams on.

I think it's more likely that it's not actually high beams and instead just very bright LED bulbs.

I’ll take aggressive but predictable drivers over overly courteous dickheads that don’t know how to use a turn signal any day of the week.

Good luck surveying a 200 year old property with some .kml polygons downloaded from the state…

You always get the best exchange rate through your bank. Use your ATM card when you're in Canada to take out cash, if you need it. Otherwise, pay for stuff using your debit card.

Damn. As a non-hockey player and father of a young hockey player, I was thinking how cool it would be to drive the Zamboni.

Kinda? It starts further inland but moves closer to the shore until Shelburne

does the proposed Route 86 start at Champlain Bridge and is it sort of just parallel to 7 from Vergennes on?