ASHLAND — Twenty-six Amish who refused to pay their fines for violating a law that requires flashing lights on their buggies appeared in court on Friday.
Once there, Ashland Municipal Court Judge John Good ruled out the possibility of jail time for them and instead said he would impose liens on their real estate.
Or when people are idiots and just don’t turn them on when they’re supposed to.
You’d think with how prevalent automatic headlights are nowadays there’d be a lot less people driving with them off in the rain/dark, yet every single night I see at least one idiot doing it in a car that I know has automatic headlights.
Why do they turn this feature off? It’s mind-blowing.
There are some very edge case scenarios where you’d want it off. Ex: a while back I was sitting in a parking garage and my headlights were shining right into some poor dudes face 0.5 floors below me.
But I think it mostly comes down to these people are fucking morons and probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive on public roads.
The issue could be solved with something similar to what ford does with their shift lever. If you turn the car off when it’s in drive and try to get out the car puts itself in park and the shift lever moves into the park position. Just do that with the headlights and snap them back into auto every time you turn the car on.
For sure. I turn mine off in parking garages. Then you know I turn them back on auto because I’m not a total idiot haha.
The idea of having lights on these buggies is literally counter to their whole belief system. You or I might not share the same world view but it is mind-blowing that you wonder why the Amish would not run electric lights on their horse and buggies…
Wait… I am an idiot and this was not the right statement to make in this case. Please point and laugh at me.
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It probably has more to do with always on dashboards and infotainment systems in SUVs more then anything else.
I’ve never owned a car with auto headlights, I’ve always owned trucks and vans but I’m thinking you HAVE to be able to turn the headlights off. Getting caught in the fog during the day would turn deadly otherwise. Any “solution”, to a questionable problem, that just creates new morbidities is no solution at all.
That being said, the new smart headlights, that black out the part of the beam opposing traffic is in (so you never need to turn high beams off and you never blind people) are fucking siiiiiiick. are they $8k sick? Hell nah. If that’s a patent, it should be pulled in the name of public safety, mandated and then let competition bring the cost down. I wouldn’t be opposed to government assisting mandatory retro-fitting either.