• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      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

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    Of course, just step on the gas. But more importantly, don’t forget to shout "FOR FRODO!! while doing it.

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    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

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    Take a photo of your filthy windshield in the sun so you have something to post as engage-bait when you get home…

    Or don’t ever outside and just repost other people’s engage-bait…

    Either way.

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      I hate cars more than anything on this planet. And my great sorrow is that when I die, I will never have seen a car-free day in my life.

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    You gotta sue the sun and the civil engineer that designed the road system that takes me East in the morning and west in the evening

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      Never live west of work? Unless you’re job hopping frequently, there’s a few choices you can make while picking a house to make life easier.

      Get a south facing door so the snow can melt, live east of work so you’re not driving into the sun, don’t live in a valley. Stuff like that.

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        No thanks I’d rather take my chances in court. If I can get enough people together I think we have a good shot at a class action against the sun

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    I hate this so much. I’m secretly hoping a rock will crack my windshield bad enough that my insurance will pay for a new one.

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      Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?

      They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.

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          Vaping in my car is what made me start keeping a microfiber cloth in my door pocket. The vape went away, but the cloth is actually really handy for cleaning off the window when sitting at red lights. Would recommend to everyone that drives.

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    Unfortunately, this is the result of a 50+ year old design in road geometry as much as a defect in your windshield.

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      There genuinely isn’t a grid design that would prevent this scenario at some point in the year

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          That’s just not true though. Most of the year in the northern hemisphere, roads angled to the southwest are much worse than roads heading dead west during sunset.

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    I seriously hope OP has stopped to take that pic and didn’t just pull out the phone while driving to do this.

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      You’re still driving a car while stopped mate. This is the reasoning that leads to people drinking while they are stopped. They aren’t technically driving… but it’s obviously not safe and shouldn’t be done.

      Yet people condone it? Fucking hell.

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            Do you think being stopped means it’s safe to use your phone behind the wheel?

            How are you supposed to make an evasive maneuver if the car behind you can’t stop? Or if someone starts crossing the road and is now laying on the road from falling?

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              Hope you aren’t using a phone to send this. Who knows what could happen during that time. Maybe someone puts the big red launch nukes button under your foot and you start nuclear winter when you go to stand up.

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                That’s obviously something that’s impossible to happen.

                If you think that neither of those are possible, or countless others… you’re a hazard on the road. There is absolutely no reason to use your phone while stopped, anything can happen, and you won’t notice while you’re sending that text.

                The life of you or someone else isn’t more important than whatever is on your phone.

                You seem to think getting rear ended while stopped at a light is an impossibility… that’s clearly not true and there’s plenty of statistics to support this is entirely possible and does happen. Now, you can also avoid the collision if you’re paying attention and have space. But obviously that can’t happen if you’re too preoccupied with your phone, instead of the road. Like you’re supposed to. At all times.

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              How are you supposed to make an evasive manoeuvre at all when standing still?

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                Move your foot from the brake to the gas and steer out of the way…? Same way you would move for emergency vehicles. Which is another reason to pay attention to the road.

                How is this even a question lmfao.

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                  You’re not quickly getting your car out of the way of someone else if you’re fully stopped. Most of them don’t accelerate nearly fast enough for that. Besides, pretty sure I would just stall the car if I tried evading someone quickly while probably slightly panicked.

                  You don’t do an evasive manoeuvre for emergency vehicles. You should hear and see them coming from quite a distance. You just scoot over in a regular way.