I keep seeing this pop up in comment sections, about how you need to tint your windshield to protect you from the F350 Xenon Eyemelters and if you don’t that’s your fault. What the fuck? What do you mean tint your windshield, how the fuck do you see at night?

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been in many online arguments about the ultra dark tint. My biggest gripe is that I can’t tell if a driver is looking my way. It’s very helpful to be able to tell if someone is looking your direction, as a driver and even more importantly as a pedestrian. If I’m about to cross a street and I know the driver saw me, I can cross without too much worry of being hit.

    Tint does make a difference with regard to how hot your car gets in the sun, but a legal tint does that pretty well without comprising safety.

    I very much doubt tint does anything for the lights, though. It’s the brightness as much as the intensity and direction of projector beam headlamps that hurt your eyes.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      11 days ago

      It’s very helpful to be able to tell if someone is looking your direction, as a driver and even more importantly as a pedestrian.

      It’s either not recommended or illegal here for that reason. We live in a very hot place and I would much like to be in a darkened space most of the time, but here we are.