[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3058831 4-Apr-2023 12:31

The pattern is independent of the height of the lights. Not sure they should punish car owners because other people choose to own a lower car than them.

There is a height range that lights can be at, if they are within that range and a good pattern then its legit.

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#3058979 4-Apr-2023 13:26

As a ute driver with the older H4 headlights, I'm very aware that when I have the car trailer loaded on the rear my lights tend to point higher than normal so I often get flashed by oncoming traffic, not that there's anything I can do about it as they aren't level adjustable without fiddling with the screw adjusters on the light units themselves between loaded and unloaded trips.

I have an increased following distance though as I am acutely aware of my increased stopping distance requirements so I'm less likely to provide interior lighting for cars in front.

But even in the ute, the brighter "modern" headlights illuminate a lot more of the cabin than older lights used to. Can dip the interior mirror and try and avoid getting dazzled by the large side mirrors picking up the headlights.

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#3059051 4-Apr-2023 15:06

tdgeek:

geoffwnz:

Short of heavy borrowing, where would the funds come from?

User Pays, which would be horrendous.

Cheaper flights, hovercraft? Maybe just cheaper flights!

Ekranoplane. Just because someone has to say it.

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#3059055 4-Apr-2023 15:27

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Ekranoplane. Just because someone has to say it.

You mean these? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128397643/transport-revolution-touted-electric-seagliders-to-connect-nz-cities-by-2025

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#3059057 4-Apr-2023 15:33

cshwone:
You mean these? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128397643/transport-revolution-touted-electric-seagliders-to-connect-nz-cities-by-2025

Well, you could use that as a water taxi to get to the real ekranoplan, a Lun class.

However since all the expertise in building those is rotting in Russia, there's no way to get one here. I'm also not certain they'd do well in the weather conditions around Cook Strait on non-fine days.

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#3059064 4-Apr-2023 15:50

Handsomedan:
Being the driver of a blindingly bright-headlighted SUV, I can confirm that when following anyone at night, I am acutely aware of how bright and annoying my lights must be.
I can see everything lit up in the cabin of a car I am following and it's especially bad on 50 or 30 kmh roads as the following distance is shorter.

I see people flick their rearview mirrors to dip very often.
There's little to nothing I can do about this.

Your dipped beam should drop 100mm every 3m. That should be enough to bring it below rear window height if you are following at normal distances.

The problem with modern projector dip beams is that the cutoff shield and projector optics cause diffraction of the light. The blue purple that you see when looking into the lamp is very annoying. If you are the driver with the projector lights this isn't that much of a problem unless you're looking at a large white sign when the rainbow colouring can be seen.

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#3059069 4-Apr-2023 15:57

Article 2 of the German Basic Law:

"(1) Everyone has the right to the free development of his personality, insofar as he does not infringe the rights of others and does not offend against the constitutional order or the moral law."

The problem, however, is that many stop reading after the first part of the sentence.

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#3059078 4-Apr-2023 16:26

MadEngineer:

I'd love to know what it looks like from the driver's perspective - if they can see what must be a highly focused beam flickering across vehicles they're following, often to the point of lighting up the entire cabin.

My Corolla which is the current model, has quite a small obscure dial with 0-4 on it, it adjusts the driving lights and possibly the headlight angle depending on the number of passengers you're carrying. Given that I drive the bulk of my kms on my own, I have it on one.

But a few months ago I was parked facing a wall and the headlights came on, so I toggled through the levels and it does raise and lower the beam quite a bit. No idea how.

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#3059093 4-Apr-2023 17:23

The WOF test has to be with any adjustment that the driver can access on highest setting. Beam height adjustment can be manual via a knob, auto via a connection to front suspension or built into lamp unit using level sensor.

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#3059174 4-Apr-2023 21:47

Pointless abbreviation of words.

For example, the current trend to replace the perfectly functional and specific "merchandise" with the word "merch" which could also be an abbreviation of, say, merchant.

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#3059176 4-Apr-2023 21:52

Rikkitic:

Handsomedan:

Being the driver of a blindingly bright-headlighted SUV, I can confirm that when following anyone at night, I am acutely aware of how bright and annoying my lights must be.
I can see everything lit up in the cabin of a car I am following and it's especially bad on 50 or 30 kmh roads as the following distance is shorter.

I see people flick their rearview mirrors to dip very often.
There's little to nothing I can do about this.

I have a friend who imports American cars. To get them VINed here, he has to change the headlights so they don't point into the oncoming lane. Surely there is some kind of regulation in this safety-obsessed country to govern modern too bright lights?

That reminds me of the days when I used to drive my car from the UK to Europe. Of course, on arrival in Europe I would be driving my RHD car in a LHD environment and headlight beams are required to be altered in order to avoid dazzling oncoming drivers.

The old way was to pop along to Halfords (the equivalent of Repco) and buy sticky black shapes that blocked out a particular part of the headlight lens.

The new way is to go into the menu and tell the car you are driving on the other side of the road and it will alter the pattern automatically to suit.

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#3059177 4-Apr-2023 21:59

tdgeek:

Rikkitic:

I am in no way an engineer but I was thinking of an underwater tunnel anchored at a suitable depth to the sea bed (so as not to obstruct shipping). Could be constructed on the ground with segments towed into place and sunk to desired depth, then connected up and water pumped out. A lot like a space station. Many billions but many billions less than drilling a tunnel.

Id suggest running a boring ferry

Faster, larger ferry that avoids the Sounds altogether, disembarking in Christchurch area.

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#3059178 4-Apr-2023 22:00

Geektastic:
For example, the current trend to replace the perfectly functional and specific "merchandise" with the word "merch" which could also be an abbreviation of, say, merchant.

Depends on how it's used. If it's at a con then merch specifically refers to swag, not general merchandise.

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#3059271 5-Apr-2023 11:35

neb:
Geektastic:

For example, the current trend to replace the perfectly functional and specific "merchandise" with the word "merch" which could also be an abbreviation of, say, merchant.

Depends on how it's used. If it's at a con then merch specifically refers to swag, not general merchandise.

Yeah, but if I am being conned, it'll be for far more than some general swag...

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#3059354 5-Apr-2023 13:53

Geektastic:

Faster, larger ferry that avoids the Sounds altogether, disembarking in Christchurch area.

Or build the Clifford Bay terminal that Jerry Brownlee cancelled in 2013. Either way it's nuts having large ferries plowing up and down Queen Charlotte Sound.

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