My big gripes with lights are:
1. People who think any sort of division between the oncoming lane and themselves (eg central reservation on an unlit dual carriageway) will miraculously prevent oncoming drivers from being blinded by their full beams. They drive along on full beam oblivious to the oncoming traffic flashing its lights.
2. People (usually cagers) who drive down country roads at 35-40mph with dipped beams and even when nothing is coming, don't switch to full beam. When you overtake them (having to use full beam to do so) they invariably manage to keep up at 60mph. Quite why they couldn't put their lights on full beam in the first place is beyond me.
3. People with obscenely bright, or poorly (upwardly) angled lights. Yes, they may actually be dipped, but if every oncoming car is flashing you, thinking you're on high beam, searing their eyeballs with a blast of high beam to show, "no actually, I was using dipped" doesn't make it right.
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