• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 hours ago

      But first he should surrender his driver’s license after revealing he’s a careless threat to his road safety & others’.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    24·
    9 hours ago

    Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.

    • gergo@lemmy.world
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled “you cannot park there mate” 😉

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    181·
    10 hours ago

    This comment section is either too autistic or not autistic enough, because they’re either unable to identify the joke in the post, or I’m unable to identify their level 7 advanced satire.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
    189·
    16 hours ago

    Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.

    If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.

    • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
      23·
      10 hours ago

      Clean your windshield, inside and out,

      Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.

      Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.

      • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        17·
        9 hours ago

        That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 hours ago

        If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.

        But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.

        • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often

        • untorquer@lemmy.world
          32·
          7 hours ago

          Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.

    • Deacon@lemmy.world
      91·
      14 hours ago

      Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.

      • binarytobis@lemmy.world
        37·
        14 hours ago

        I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.

        I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        20·
        13 hours ago

        I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.

        I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.

        If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.

        Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        14 hours ago

        We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 hours ago

        No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about “getting around to it” and dont.

    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
      10·
      15 hours ago

      I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace

    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
      1·
      12 hours ago

      Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 hours ago

        It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    91·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.

    Edit: the earth is round. I apologize for my mid-latitude chauvinism. Adjust angles per lattitude.

      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Sure it is! In the northern hemisphere, instead of 45° going east-to-west, just plan in for 45° going west-to-east. It’s foolproof!

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Yes, it does. But it would be higher at the 45°’s and not in your face. We planned a grid on the compass one way, it would have been no more difficult the other way.

        • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          8 hours ago

          I believe it depends on the latitude, since away from the equator the Sun rises at an angle and not straight up. It can be low enough to still be below the visor, but risen enough to have moved far enough south (if in the northern hemisphere) to be problematic when driving southeast in the morning or southwest in the evening.

          I found this image on Google search that I think illustrates the phenomenon: https://share.google/okYRf16lB1vegnVax

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    537·
    17 hours ago

    you put on the hazard lights and slow down while steering to the side of the road to assess the situation or until you can see again.

    like holy shit why would you even consider accelerating when you can’t see where you’re going