They don't though, they're just brighter (and a slightly different colour). You can easily spot them coming toward you and I've seen other drivers flash cars that aren't doing anything wrong.

Maybe its a height thing - I'd certainly be lower on the car than you, but my experience is that they entirely kill my ability to see.

Which doesn't greatly please me.

I flash back and wave.

So according to you I'm somehow in the wrong here, despite having 100% standard, totally road-legal lights;

I'd still argue that those cars have their headlights pointing too high.

Well, yeah. But as I understand it they're required by law to self-level when they're switched on, which means that either a) the self-levelling is faulty, or b ) the level set by the manufacturer isn't right.

Hmm, that's new in the last three years then - the Mundano leveled (and centered, because it did the "point around corners" thing) when it started up, but you could still adjust them up and down manually if you liked.

It's best to turn your lights on and off to flash someone at nighttime, rather than flip your main beam on.

I can't do that unless I turn auto lights off completely.

It's hard to search for, but headlights are being developed that are constantly on main beam, and lots of thin "eyelashes" move over them to cover up the bits that would be shining onto oncoming cars.

My main point is that, even if you *do* think someone's lights are "too bright", or if they've got their high beam on, surely the thing to do is to slow down, briefly tap your high beam when still at a reasonably safe distance - as opposed to doing nothing until within 10 metres, then putting both normal and high beam on right into their faces?

That sounds daft. On a Ford the options on the dial switch are "Off", "Side", "On", "Auto" - so you just flip it off and back to auto again.

Top tip, if you meet a fanny that doesn't dip their lights or has badly adjusted ones or there's too much glare* then slow down & watch the line/verge as far ahead as you can until they've passed and are away burning some other poor cunt's retinas.

I think the folk that do that are just spackers rather than deliberately trying to teach you a lesson. You see a lot of that at the start of autumn because nae cunt remembers** what the fuck they are meant to be doing at night!
*Clean your glasses and your windscreen inside & out, it's probably your fault!
**I reckon half of them don't even know what they're meant to be doing in the first place. This is one of those rare moments where I'm in 100% agreement with Cavey! There a lot of terrifying eejits out there that should probably not be allowed to operate heavy, fast moving & potentially dangerous machinery.

It's hard to search for, but headlights are being developed that are constantly on main beam, and lots of thin "eyelashes" move over them to cover up the bits that would be shining onto oncoming cars.

There's quite a storm coming, and i can't decide if i'm going to surf tomorrow, Thursday or Friday. But i also don't know if my country can be described as "1st world", or if this is even a first world problem.

Your country is Portugal, right?

Portugal is considered a developed country with an advanced economy and high living standards, listed with the nineteenth-highest quality of life index rating in the world as of 2005. It's one of the world's most globalized and peaceful nations

I bought what I thought was a red protective shell for my MBP, but it's not quite the colour in the photo.

I now have a pink MBP.

Go both days. A bad day in the sea is better than a good day in the office.

Go both days. A bad day in the sea is better than a good day in the office.

I know I shouldn;t, but MBP? something phone?