Good luck, everybody

Polarized sunglasses.

clean your windshield that shit is dirty as fuuck

I've been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don't know how to handle it, destroy your driver's license.

Jesus fucking Christ.

You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads.... FFS.

Maybe calm down a bit?
- Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
  How calm should I be about driver's being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because "lol, what was I supposed to do?!?" .... Exactly?
  Can't see? Don't drive. It's not fucking rocket surgery.
- It's a meme sure, but it's a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn't entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.

this is so a pre-2010s problem

the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights

bUt ThEyRe StOcK aNd AiMeD pRoPeRlY

and at night, when you realise their high beams were off the whole time... the hard way
- most of the time when I get flashed back, it doesn't even matter. their high beams aren't any brighter than the low beams, they're just aimed higher, and since their lowbeams are already aimed above my head, it doesn't make a difference when they turn their high beams on to light up the tree tops
  it still is pretty funny when you can tell that they've turned their high beams on by a tiny bit more light up above, but it has no effect on you. It's a pretty clear indication that their low beams are too bright
But I need to outshine the quasar at the center of the galaxy to see where I'm going!

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.

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
- No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about "getting around to it" and dont.
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.
- That's why it's really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
- 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.
Though I'd add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.
- Hehe, yeah. In the oldendays there was newspaper as an option for drying glass streak-free. It was never the best choice luckily, but it used to be prevalent. A squeegee was the old better solution, and a microfiber cloth is the new better solution.
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
An actual adult in the room.
Eh if it was pitted you'd probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn't cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
- It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It's not a great situation at it's best, but it shouldn't be fully debilitating.

Clean your windshield (correctly) and get some polarized sunglasses

Wash your window, dumbass.

- Why... why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?
How would that help? his eyes are closed. Didn't you read it?
- Ohh nah, I was reminding myself to wash my window.

Do not casually drive in Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945.

Okay but what if I'm in a Toyota ae86 and need to deliver sushi?
- Tofu*
- It means it's time to get serious.

If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!

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.
- 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.
  Big if true!

you can show up to work before sunrise and leave after sunset.

signed,

your boss

Easy enough in the winter. This pic is my commute both ways in autumn though.
easily done with 10am sunrise and 2pm sunset

Lmao, folk really be driving in light mode.

Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.

slams brakes in the middle of the road
NO EXCEPTIONS
- You’d kill less people that way

You stick your head out the window like Ace Ventura

Instructions unclear. Stuck my head out of a rhinoceros' ass.
- No I think you nailed it
Done this to get kids to school on time once or twice. Twas only for a few seconds/meters but was mildly scary all the same

Just perform a safety squint.

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

It's a funny joke image with silly joke text, it ain't that serious
- Except that it's not funny. :p
I think it's a joke
I trust Jesus will keep me safe.
Like holy shit why would you see this and thick that OP is really doing this for real?

Can't stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.

That’s the sun >.>
- yeah well someone should do something about this "sun"
- yeah and it drives like an asshole
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don't have "the bright" lights.
- tbh I'd rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
  and have done many times, it's hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can't see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is

but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.

Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
- What is your name traveller... 😆
- I would love to see Limmy on Lemmy. He'd fit right in here.

Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.

I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled "you cannot park there mate" 😉
with the driver stood on his phone.
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!

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.

4D Checkers
We identify the joke, it's just not very funny
- 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
This is lemmy. The only way in ze real life we could deal with jokes is by pretending to not get them, and now it's even taking over our online lives! AAAAAAAH!
I think with Lemmy it's almost always the former

Slow the fuck down?

Car brainrot is real

Car brainrot [sic] is real
I’m pretty sure the meme is a joke.
- Literally said "literally"
- haha having reckless disregard for the safety of yourself and others while driving is so funny, amirite? boomer shit
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.
- You could spend a day camping in the wilderness before you die?
I've seen another "joke" like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it's funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can't see shit around them.
- You saw a joke and you though "this just be what most people truly believe"?
  Can you walk me through how you reached that conclusion?

Use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_visor.

If you can't see the road look to the right side to keep yourself in the lane or look at the double yellow line. I'm no help at avoiding the other cars in your lane but this should keep you moving forwarded instead of brake checking the person behind you

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.

Funny thing about rocks, they are everywhere. Grab one and get crackin
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.
- People who vape in their car need to do it minimum monthly. The film of glycol just makes everything look smeared.

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.

Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.

Edit: the earth is round. I apologize for my mid-latitude chauvinism. Adjust angles per lattitude.

http://stevekluge.com/astronomy/riseazimuth.html
At the Equator, where the Sun rises and sets perpendicular to the horizon, the Summer Solstice Sun rises 23.5° north of due East, and sets 23.5° north of due West.
The Sun moves around a lot over a year. I don't think it's practical to try to plan a grid around it.
- Sure it is! In the northern hemisphere, instead of 45° going east-to-west, just plan in for 45° going west-to-east. It's foolproof!
- Yes, it does. But it would be higher at the 45°’s and not in your face. We planned a grid on the compass one way, it would have been no more difficult the other way.
Laughing in 60°N

Oh hey Jesus, mind taking the wheel bud? Thanks!

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

There genuinely isn't a grid design that would prevent this scenario at some point in the year
- Chicago even gets excited about their Chicagohenge twice a year.
- grid design
  Bleurgh
- Dead on East/West roads have it far worse than rolling highways set at North/South angles.

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

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

Looks like some sort of red light is off to the side, so probably stopped?
- That's a truck tail light...
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.
- are you really comparing using a phone in a stopped vehicle to driving drunk?

What it's like to ride a motorcycle at sunrise:

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

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.
- 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

Slam!

Let the boys be boys

Klote zon