Headlight Modulator?

[Ronbo]

Amen!

I suspect what pisses you off is someone who misuses high beams, and doesn't dim them when appropriate. Just because there are :cus: out there who misuse things doesn't make the technology bad . . . when properly used, it saves lives.

If day running lights are sufficient, why do so many people who turn in front of motorcycles or pull out in front of them claim: "I never saw him!"? I've lost friends through the years who had that happen to them.

I'd rather piss off a person in a car, sitting at an intersection, than have the :cus: pull out in front of me and I T-bone them.

Amen, better my brights briefly bouncing off their retina's than me bouncing off their hood.

 

[robmorg]

A downside to actual modulators that I have not mentioned. They do tend to "tick off" some of the other vehicles drivers, just like high beams on all the time.

Not saying that the "flashing effect" is the answer, but it happens frequently enough that you usually generate oncoming or frontal traffic's attention. Cars have actually pulled over because of the "flashing." This has also been mentioned in the aforementioned thread.

There really is no happy medium and I say to each their own. :thumbup:

"To each his own" is always the case, but other than the fact that they are so hard to install on a Spyder, I do not see any "downside" to headlight modulators at all. In order to be most effective, they should work with the high beams. But since they only work during daylight hours, I fail to understand why they should "tick off" anyone. The only exception that I can think of is when you are closely following someone in slow-moving traffic. But then, it should be a simple matter to turn them off by switching to low beams.