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Written By pradeep - 4 April, 2008

Traffic Bangalore High Beam

There was lot of discussions about the high beam lights in cars, buses and other vehicles. Why this topic is stopped. The police department is not taking this into consideration.Even the people are careless about the high beam lights. Even within the city they use high beams.I dont know what is the use of it. Is it to show off or what. The traffic police dont even bother to check it. They are only concerned about checking the licenses and finding loopholes on how to issue a challan to the driver.

 

Its really a worst feeling you get when you get an car or other vehicles from opposite direction with high beam lights. Yell

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Polarized solution to Dazzling lights

Photoyogi - 5 April, 2008 - 11:36

A Friend of mine once told me that he upgraded his car's headlights to some Xenon 110/150W (High beam is 150W!!) now if some one shines light into his eyes he would out-shine him thus getting his bit of MaRyaDe. Standard lights on most cars are 60/80W or in that range. Now there is no limit to this outshining business, is only going to make the situation worse. On the other hand having decent lights is a good idea to see the road (read potholes) ahead. There is a solution to this, Headlights and windscreens are coated with opposite Polaroid film (say H-Polaroid on the lights and K-Polaroid on the windscreen) What this does is, you don't get dazzled by the opposite vehicle but you can see the light from your vehicle bouncing off the opposite vehicle. http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/record/tris/00220210.html http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=WO1999024288&DISPLAY=DESC So just as seat belts are now standard why not this? -- Praveen Sundaram AkA PhotoYogi

High Beams - Needed for Safety

Naveen - 5 April, 2008 - 15:27

Hi All,

I once rammed my car into a divider on hosur road that seemed to spring up without any reflector or other cautionary sign whilst trying to be polite to motorists proceeding in the opposite lanes (just past Prestige Elgin /Langford road). I was overtaking a slow moving truck which wud'nt budge from the middle of the two lanes & thus had to move a little to the right of the yellow line. If I had hi-beam on, this could have been easily avoided. Since then, I have become very cautious & use hi-beam whenever there is'nt any traffic in the opposite direction, & dip only when I see other vehicles approaching.

Yes I agree that high beams

pradeep - 6 April, 2008 - 07:25

Yes I agree that high beams are very much necessary when we are driving in highways but I see people with high beams even when the road is properly lit. It causes problem not only to car driver but also to two wheleers. Is there any way that we can bring this issue to Police dept.

Reason for using high beam lights

pbanavara - 7 April, 2008 - 16:18

Of course it pisses me off to see all vehicles using high beams in Bangalore. Especially cars and trucks. However there is a reason for this behavior

Most of the roads in Bangalore do not have reflectors or line markers painted with reflective material. There are several bumps/speed breakers which do not have any markings. So these are hard to identify with low beam.

I heard that the reflectors planted on the roads are stolen, but at least BBMP can paint the line markers with reflective paint.This will provide enough visibility at night with low beams. 

Its not to show off

silkboard - 5 April, 2008 - 10:19

Actually, most people don't do it on purpose. About a third of drivers don't know or realize that high beam is bothersome to others and that it is illegal to use it unless it is raining or foggy outside. Most of the rest - when faced with high beams from opposite side - find it tough to sight the road ahead, so their response is tit for tat, to put high beam on their vehicle for better vision. Rest, like you and me, are left to complain and wonder how this can be stopped !

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