Just Wondering

[weecalf]

While out walking early these mornings I meet quite a lot of traffic with their lights on full beam .Some would dip their lights but most don't when meeting .It don't really bother me as there is quite a wide hard shoulder but was just wondering is there any rules on this .Prob gives the cyclist an equal problem.

[andy-hughes]

The standard rule is to dip your headlights when meeting another vehicle.

I learned to drive over forty years ago - the rule was followed by everyone.

Now, loads of people have fog lights on day and night, and full beams wherever they go - there is just a lack of consideration in modern drivers - but that is a reflection of socetiy as a whole.

[Old_Geezer]

about sums it up

[vulcan42]

I still dip my lights when meeting pedestrians and cyclists although I don't think there is a rule to cover it and that is the problem these days. Unless there is a rule people just do what suits them, courtesy seems to be on the way out.

[AB Editor]

A-H - I'm not sure if high-beams are always on, or that headlights have wider/higher angles than they used to? Equally those xxeon lamps in nice German saloons blind just about everyone but the driver...

[andy-hughes]

You are probably right Ed - I don't think the lights on the Morris 1100 I learned on would hold their own with today's lights!