“General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers,” - March 2022

Its a manufacturing issues with vehicles being outfitted with super bright headlights. I drive a 2018 pickup, no after market parts at all on it, and I get flashed all the time at night because people think I have my high beams on, when in reality my headlights just sit higher up than your typical car.

You're not going crazy, brighter headlights are a known problem, and companies like GMC are already taking steps to fix it.

It’s just the new led headlights. Quit crying and just accept it lol

This is a fucking joke right?

This world doesn't need more highways.

I drove a Zamboni.

100b to 100 to 17 to 116 to Quarry Rd. A piece of cake.

Just for a reference, a lot of new cars have auto high/low beams and they are hyperactive on a good day. So it ends up looking like I am flashing people when it is just the auto beams doing it.

I have led headlights and I am constantly getting flashed, even though they’re angled correctly. Now when people feel the need to be jerk and turn their highs on thinking IM being a jerk, I just give them the led high beams and 6” KC hilites I have mounted to hopefully teach them a lesson once they’re able to see again.

If you were on 125 earlier, it’s because my low beams decided to not work. That’s completely on me.

Collapsed Sun

So the property tax dollars in Bellows falls get split between BF and the rest of Rockingham?

Only one solution, folks: Get home before sundown!

Agreed, GMboy!! Bravo!!

I grew up here and now at 40, it seems to be new to me, but I also don't know about it really being old timers as it's in 8am work flow traffic I see it all the worst

These lights should be recalled. They create so much glare and are never aimed correctly. They're blinding regardless of what vehicle you're in.

Its not you. I work 2nd shift and drive an hour home on Route 7 every night and id say 40 to 50% of cars i have to flash at, its ridiculous.

It's the ultra-bright, daylight-spectrum LED lights.

They shouldn't be legal. Every single driver with those LED lights that are as bright as ordinary high-beams should fail inspection and be required to upgrade to road-safe, mellow-spectrum lights.

I feel like it's gotten worse in the last two years. Not sure if that's because it suddenly became the default for new cars, or if it's due to the influx of people who have moved to Vermont during COVID.

They also allow deed pulls for free, online, which is what this company does and charges money for.

The parcel mapping program directly mirrors the parcels maps in the town clerk offices.

If you are somehow implying this private company has better records than the town clerk you are sorely mistaken. Not only mistaken but the map at the town clerk is the source of truth so any discrepancies would need to go through a legal proceeding and be recorded by the town (which then would offer them for free) before they became actual property lines.

We have lots of old folks and people who are visiting and unfamiliar with the area. I suppose it could be that or they’re stoned. The coming to a near stop before turning seems to be a general Vermont thing since always though.

Even factory LED headlights can be blinding if the road isn't flat. At some point, however, you'll reach a point where you hit the beam cutoff, so perhaps as you get closer to them, you simply hit the cutoff point such that they are no longer blinding?

Just playing devil's advocate, because I see way too many people either with high beams on when they shouldn't be on (some cars have different bulbs for high beams, so it is really easy to tell on some cars), or no headlights at all despite it being dark out. Funny enough I ran into both situations today, and they were both Honda Civics.

1800sf

68-69 degrees.

Pellet boiler.

Used half a ton last month.

So....$175ish?

Plus wood stove, so about 1/10 a cord. So $20 - 30 there.

Semis are rarely the problem for me, it's douche nozzles in their raised truck with the brightest fucking lights they can find. Bonus points if they added a light bar up front.

Unless you have no other way to get water away from your house, IMO, gutters are nothing but a pain. In any state. On any house. They clog in the winter with ice, they clog in the fall with leaves, you have to clean them every year, longer spouts at the bottom get knocked about. Eventually they start to fall apart, especially if you don't clean them and maintain the woodwork on which they're mounted.

Grade your land accordingly or install drainage around the house. Life is better without gutters.

I've wanted to make this exact post so many times. Low beams today are brighter than high beams used to ever be a while ago and still so much high beaming for no reason.

So many people install mini suns(Bright white LED) in their cars and don't realize that the bright white ones need to be aimed down further than your normal yellow lights. Mix that with people who can't see at night and refuse to concede they shouldn't be driving and just keep their high beams on all the time.

The ones on the highway piss me off a lot too, just because we're a little further to the side doesn't make it okay to just high beam everyone, including people you're behind.

I go through a 40 and then a 30mph zone on my way to work. The amount of people I follow that won’t touch 30mph in the 40 zone and then do 40+ in the 30 zone baffles me. There’s absolutely no consistency in the way some people drive and it fucking terrifies me.