Rented a car for a road trip over the weekend... needed to carry four people and lots of stuff for a ~500 mile trip, so any of the vehicles I own wouldn't have been appropriate, ended up with a 300. Actually didn't hate it (although it did take a while to figure out why it kept engaging the bun warmers on me every time I started the car...) UNTIL I got off the Interstate and started down a rural Michigan two lane. I hit the brights and... nothing.
After some flicking back and forth, I realized that the brights actually did slightly illuminate the trees at the side of the road better than just the lows so there were definitely two different modes going on here, but they did literally nothing to help me see farther down the road than the low beams, and there really was only a slightly perceptible difference between the two. Also the low beams stayed on so the foreground was quite well lit, which didn't seem to help matters much.
Are they *really* that bad? And having lived in Michigan previously, I would think that proper lighting for a high speed two lane at night would actually be a serious day to day consideration for the people designing these beasts, as there sure are plenty of them in MI. Or did I get a rental with defective headlights?
After some flicking back and forth, I realized that the brights actually did slightly illuminate the trees at the side of the road better than just the lows so there were definitely two different modes going on here, but they did literally nothing to help me see farther down the road than the low beams, and there really was only a slightly perceptible difference between the two. Also the low beams stayed on so the foreground was quite well lit, which didn't seem to help matters much.
Are they *really* that bad? And having lived in Michigan previously, I would think that proper lighting for a high speed two lane at night would actually be a serious day to day consideration for the people designing these beasts, as there sure are plenty of them in MI. Or did I get a rental with defective headlights?