If no one is around or coming the other direction at night on 495 my beams are on. Tons of deer and it's crazy dark

I’ve lived in mass my whole life and I’ve never heard of it, is it a new highway?

A highway in Massachusetts

It might be something you can do, depends on the car. The yearly state inspection is supposed to cover that but idk if every inspection place actually bothers

My truck had auto high beams. They could detect other cars' headlights and turn off. Turned that shit off immediately

Could be, they’re angled however the manufacturer angles them. Is that something that can be adjusted? (Genuinely asking, my knowledge of cars is…not robust.)

Took my brain way too long to figure out what I was looking at....

Pothole

Where you went wrong is you should've said you don't need your brights on in thickly settled areas with streetlights. They're useful in the woods especially on roads that split huge sections of public lands.

We had an op-ed earlier this week from a survivor of the child welfare system:

It wasn’t too long after my family was thrust into homelessness that the Department of Children and Families found out.

The DCF caseworkers who came to our hotel room banged on the front door, demanding entry. They scrutinized every inch of the room and questioned my siblings and me, looking for any sign of child neglect. One visit gave rise to countless unannounced visits over the years as school staff reported our family to social services for the same reason: homelessness. Because of that state policy, DCF came to investigate, not to help, searching for any reason to separate my siblings from one another instead of trying to keep my family together.

When many Americans hear the phrase “family separation,” they think of the US immigration policies that allow border agents to rip children from their parents. What many might not see, however, is another horrific form of family separation, one executed by child protective service agencies.

Many states, such as Massachusetts, New York, and California, define neglect to include an inability to provide a child with adequate food, clothing, and shelter. A family’s struggle to maintain stable housing is interpreted as a form of neglect instead of as a consequence of policy failure.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/20/opinion/i-am-survivor-child-welfare-system-family-surveillance-is-not-solution-poverty/

Are they angled too high? Even if they’re bright, if they’re angled properly it won’t usually bother people

My car (Chevy) has automatic high beams that turn on when the road is dark and it senses no other cars. I don’t know how to turn it off.

Fuck off back to Minnesota, you're insufferable.

Nah mans is a menace. 😅

ive seen "ghost riding" before but never this. Hope it isn't some dumb new social media trend

Yeah, I flashed my lights at someone who I thought had their high beams on and forgot they were on...THEN they put their high beams on. I nearly ended up in some hedges 😂

Time is a flat circle.

Wrong. There are some small towns along 95 and after that have dark, winding roads as well. There are several wealthy towns that were never allowed to fully develop that almost feel like the country.

Nature will take its' course.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Why would you not use the automatic headlights I never touch my lights.

It’s this older generation who grew up always turning them off. Truly annoying.

Boston Public Works is the division that probably changed the lights but to get them altered/dimmed, you would most likely need to go through the Public Improvement Commission. My suggestion would be to find a contact for the commission, most likely a clerk or secretary, and ask them what process you would have to go through to get the lights changed. An offhand guess would be that you will need to create a petition, have as many people sign it from your street as you can and then get a hearing in front of the commission. I have worked with many different town commissions and can say from experience, Boston’s are some of the worst to deal with. I wish you luck as the process may be even more involved then my guess.

It's about 50-50. On some older cars it's easy to tell that the high beams are on as a separate set of lights inside of the normal lights.

Apropos.

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