• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days 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.

    • Deacon@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days 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
        3·
        8 days 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
        0·
        8 days 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.

    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
      0·
      8 days 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

    • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
      0·
      8 days 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.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 days 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
          0·
          8 days 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

              • Aeao@lemmy.world
                1·
                7 days ago

                You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.

                Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.

                Maybe you just suck?

                Let me ask you this

                You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
      1·
      7 days ago

      Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.

      While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    2·
    8 days 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.

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
        0·
        8 days ago

        Nothing says “I can tell this is a joke, but it’s not funny” like telling OP that they’re acting dangerously as though they’re actually doing this, and giving them actual advice as though they asked for any.
        /s

        • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
          0·
          8 days ago

          Joke not funny, advice dumb. People no haha, give better advice.

          Judging by those advice posts being massively upvoted - seems most agree.

          • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
            1·
            8 days ago

            advice dumb. People […] give better advice.

            Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I’m talking about.

            What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?

            Once again, I can’t tell if you’re too autistic to understand a joke, or I’m too autistic to understand your advanced satire.

  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      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.

        • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          8 days ago

          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.

          • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
            0·
            5 days ago

            They’ll survive. Their cars might not…

            Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.

            • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
              0·
              7 days ago

              Rear-ending someone at highway speed is pretty fucking dangerous to everyone involved

              • Aeao@lemmy.world
                1·
                7 days ago

                Irs actually not dangerous in the same way driving blind is. I doubt you care about crumple Zones.

                In one situation you drive blindly into an accident… the other “well rear ending can sometimes be bad!!!”

                It never is. The you’re wrong, crazy, and also stupid.

                You’re entire argument is “driving blindly is safer than stopping blindly” it’s dumb. It’s a dumb argument. When is going ever safer than stopping lol? You are dumb.