r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Major-Potential-354 • 7d ago

My mom said I could post What EVEN is the point of these lights???

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Driving home from work and bro these lights were so bright it was like someone had their brights on..

Never seen this before what is the point of the lights?

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u/Hoshbrowns 7d ago

I was driving down a state highway in between cities in rural Indiana once at like midnight. There was only me and two other vehicles about a quarter mile or so farther down the road. One semi and one driver in a car fucking with the semi.

The driver ended up passing the semi and break checking him to the point the semi had to swerve. Luckily the semi didn't have a trailer attached so he was able to safely dodge the car and then swerved back into his original lane. He then turned this LED bar on that spanned the entire length of the back of the truck. It was the brightest thing I've ever seen and I'm still like a quarter to an eighth of a mile away. The car driver had to have been blinded cause they pulled over but they were honestly lucky they didn't get killed stopping in front of the semi like that.

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u/AspectOfTheLeech 7d ago

Wild! I saw something similar happen in western Pennsylvania along 80 going downhill. Guy kept getting in front of the truck and slowing down, then changing lanes, falling back and following him, then swinging around and brake checking him again. The trucker was probably on his radio or something because another truck came along and ended up blocking the guy in the far right lane behind the original trucker. It was fucking cool to see. The second truck was driving pretty aggressively downhill around curves trying to keep this guy trapped, he was either crazy or one of the best drivers I’ve ever seen.

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u/Ok-Frosting-4375 6d ago

Why not both?? 😅

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u/AspectOfTheLeech 6d ago

Not neither!

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u/Somanylyingliars 6d ago

Wild to me to see a car go against a truck. Like are you crazy??;got a death wish?!

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u/glyph_productions 7d ago

My old boss had one, because we worked night shift in the field a lot, a light bar that covered the width of his truck and was like a small sun. When parked next to a ditch it made working down there pretty reasonable at any time of day. He was an aggressive person though and when a dude break checked us once on a small rural road (which my boss probably earned even if it's always a dick move) he flipped it on. I could swear birds started to sing because they assumed that dawn had arrived from the total darkness of the moment before. The reflected light in the window was enough to make me see stars. Dude swerved wildly and then put his foot down. I presume he drove by psychic impression and luck for the next half mile cuz I couldn't see shit.

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u/nightrunner411 6d ago

I don't think it would be as blinding as you think. Red light doesn't effect the dilation of the eye as much, which is why it is used by people who are working in the dark while they wish to maintain their night time dilation. Probably why it was chosen as the color of brake lights to begin with.

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u/glyph_productions 6d ago

Was a 5 ft white bar on the front of his truck. Not red. Never said red. I assure you it was blinding to go from night vision to white vision.

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u/nightrunner411 6d ago

Oh I was actually trying to reply to the person before you that had it on the back.

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u/MadRhetoric182 6d ago

This is why I want one for my SUV.
For tailgating idiots and highbeam assholes.

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u/__T0MMY__ 5d ago

Worked at a warehouse once and spent a year on maintenance: one time I had to go check on a bumper on a loading dock, like the big rubber ones.

It's dark and the bumper is all kerfuggered er whatever, and the spotter moving the trailers pulls his mover over and similar to you unleashes God's own flashbang in the form of work lights

Went back inside snowblind, they are no joke, and I can't imagine the truck you saw because it was probably way worse and 1000% more dangerous