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raptor3x t1_iuzcecq wrote

Reply to comment by euro_trash_rescue in Is it just me or do 50% of people always drive high beams on? by aspiringharlequin

Subaru uses the high beams for DRLs but they run at a low voltage so they should be just barely visible. If you put aftermarket LED or HID bulbs into the high beam housing the bulbs don't understand that they're supposed to run at low output and instead run full blast.

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euro_trash_rescue t1_iv0ayus wrote

I realize that as i used to work for subaru at a dealership and it was every week someone would come in saying at night their headlights were on but not their tail lights. I would have to show them how to use their headlamp switch.

I have informed a few and they did not know they were on and switched them off. High beams are blinding, drls are not.

Subaru places the high beam icon in a place where when most people hold the wheel its blocked.

The average person appears (at least in VT, to my experience) to rarely look at their dash for speed, MIL, or anything going on, much less a highbeam icon.

The govt needs to make headlamps auto mandatory.

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