I'm not 100% sure what the conditional "not approved by the commissioner" statement means here, but I would think putting LED lights into halogen housings would fall under this point:

"Any additional auxiliary or after-market light(s) not designed to enhance safety and have not been approved by the Commissioner, are placed on or in the vehicle, whether flashing or burning"

I work as an engineer at an automotive lighting company. I will die on this hill stating LED lights in halogen reflector housings are blinding for other drivers and are less effective for lighting the road ahead of you. LED's typically produce more lumens (e.g. they're brighter at the source) but when not aimed correctly they produce less lux (light measured at a specific area) where its needed. The human brain is easy to fool, and LED's fool the brain into thinking the lighting is better because the entire field of view is brighter, but usable lighting is actually worse because the "hot spot" aimed down the road in front of the vehicle is not as bright.

TD charges a fee to withdraw CAD. I think it’s like 8 bucks or something. If you have TD, you can use a Canadian trust ATM free of charge. I usually just use my credit cards and there’s a negligible fee associated with each transaction

The company offers scanning services, database development and web hosting that allow the records to be accessed via and online portal. Town clerks are not able to offer that on their own. There is absolutely value in being able to access records online versus having to drive to whatever town and spend time in the vault doing research. Town clerks charge an hourly rate for vault access in addition to charging copy fees. Particularly during the pandemic when many clerk offices were closed, online services became even more valuable. In my opinion, the state should work towards a statewide database / online record portal. It would overall be less expensive for residents than towns trying to individually make it happen through contracting with a variety of companies.

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Brand new truck, not getting them adjusted (they are LED), and not turning off Auto (what's the point in having it?)

If you're getting run off the road because of high beams then you really shouldn't be driving.

I have read that you need relatively straight lines to achieve comfortable high speed service. Moving through the valleys of the green mountains at faster than 120 MPH would probably feel too much like a roller coaster for the average rail passenger.

Good news folks, yesterday I snuck in a fishing trip on what little safe ice there was before the rain started. Fried fish dinner!

When it works

You can set a pin to your US card too.

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I know my ram led headlights (factory) I get high beamed all the time when I have my lows on. Most cars and trucks with low beams the fog lights will be on as well if they have fog lights so that’s one way to tell. I’m sure all the ones I that see the sun when I high beam them back get the picture

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Have you folks seen that new Audi tech where the headlights detect oncoming traffic and shut down the lights that shine in the other driver's eyes? Very cool.

I’m not trying to be an ass here, seriously I’m not. I’m genuinely curious if you have lived in a town like DC, LA or Houston and have experienced that sort of traffic? I grew up in DC where it took me upwards of 45 minutes to commute 5 miles - for 9 years in a row. Can you describe what you mean by undriveable?

I avoid driving my 1990 Miata at night. Virtually every other car on the road has there headlights at my eye level.

I mostly get the ones that don't go 50 but will be between 40-45 with zero chances to pass and then when we get to a 40 they are going 55.. .. it happens so much.

I also drive a big truck for a living and I’ll always flash at those super bring UFO custom light trucks. It’s bullshit. And the aftermarket headlights in a plow truck almost had me off the road yesterday.

That’s exactly my point. There is nothing the company offers that is not free at the town clerks office.

The state did offer some grant funds to scan in NEMRC a while ago I think but it is still not complete.

It’s the same mentality as the people who drive massive vehicles because they’ll be safer in an accident.

They don’t think “yeah, I’ll be safe, even though I’ll probably murder anyone driving a Sedan”.

All they care about is their own comfort and being able to see more, and fuck anyone else.

I domt understand your point. This company being offline did not impact access to any land record. The only thing it did was resell public records. Your survey example didn’t make sense to me either. If without a modern survey, the only way to resolve it is to do deed research, this is free from the town.

It seems many people don’t understand this either. This company got access to 1/6 of the towns in VT and is charging people for access to the record they can get for free direct from the town.

• 1/5.5 to be closer, not 1/6

The records that COTTS provides online ARE the clerks records. Towns contract with them to provide this service. Typically cotts will send a team in to scan the records and create a database which they then put on their portal. Clerks can then add in new records as they are submitted. It costs too much for smaller towns (15,000-20,000 for startup and an operating fee of around 1,000 a month last I knew). Many towns use NEMRC to provide this service instead because it’s more affordable, but NEMRC doesn’t offer scanning service so that leads to older records not being available in digital form because the clerks don’t have time to deal with it.

I think that’s a myth to an extent. Every vehicle has an optimal speed based on aerodynamics, transmission gearing and some other factors. For instance at 65 my truck gets 17mpg on the interstate in VT, at 75 it gets 19 and at 77 it gets 21. I don’t know why, I think it has to do with carrying speed on the small ups and downs we have, so the cruise control doesn’t downshift as much on little hills, but it’s a thing in some vehicles. It also generally rides smoother at 77 than 70, my tires have a small imbalance as the are all terrains and it’s impercievable at 60, but becomes a tiny vibration at 65-73 and then goes away.

And to your point about speed and time it’s dependent on commute. If you are driving 3 miles to work the person doing 60 gets there in 3 minutes and the person doing 45 gets there in 4. That is a small difference working out over a year to 8 hours of extra time in the car for the slower driver, and over a 40 year career 13 days lost. If you extend that commute to 25 miles which is fairly typical in VT it’s 17 minutes a day 71 hours a year 118 days in the 40 year career. That’s 1/3 of a year in a finite life span being wasted just driving slower than is needed. That’s .4% of one’s life they waste.

When you add in all the other non-work driving we all do, that person who commutes 50 miles a day round trip probably drives 350 miles a week. It’s 100hrs a year, if you do that for 55 years which puts age say 20-75 typical driving years, it’s 230 days lost just sitting in the car on the way to the destination. And it grows the more you drive.

I just did out the math, and since age 20 I have driven 410,000~ miles in 15 years. While speeds are not constant I do 10-12 over pretty much all the time, so while this isn’t perfect math it’s close as benefit of that is greater at slow speed in town than at highway speed and a lot of the driving is in towns. If I had gone 15mph slower on those miles I would have at age 35 spent 93 more days in my car than I have.

If you can’t figure out what you would do with 93 days of free time returned to you just by pressing the gas pedal a little more then idk what to say. But it’s not “small” amounts of time when you look at it for a lifetime. With the amount I drive it will be an entire year of my life avoided in the car.

Additionally I think if you were to ask those that know me they would say I am punctual to a fault, very anal about being on time, I just in my time of driving have really nailed down the time it takes to do things in different conditions. Sometimes I get somewhere early, but that’s just more time at the destination (fun if it’s something I want to do, and I can finish sooner if it’s something unfun like work), but I’m never late.

Our gutters are great. We have leaf traps and no problem with cleaning and a whole lot better than drip, drip, drip. Love them, with the small extra.