Do you ever get freaked out driving at night?

[DER E30]

Nope, I love driving at night. Some killer lights make a difference. I do have an awesome bixenon retro on my e30 with fogs and middle factory bright lamps on when brights are engaged...

Need to get the M3 to have all on at the same time also...

[TobyB]

driving at night in the rain

on fresh asphalt with no markers.

I've had problems with that before.

In Reno.

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[AndrewBird]

I'm used to driving with snow covering the road and "erasing" the road almost completely, so a dark road doesn't bother me. I also have better than 20/20 vision and exceptional night vision.

[e30strokr]

I love driving at night specially when its 80-90* outside.... however one time I visited a friend in Madera CA, somewhere and I was lost on this road that I couldn't see any lights....and I decided to turn around... all I saw where tombstones.. I was inside a cementery with no markings from the main street ......

[Kershaw]

7 years ago a friend and I made a trip down to Abingdon VA from DC to pick up a parts e30, swapped in some engine mounts, and then drove back. The seller was your average teenager and took until 3pm to respond so we could leave. At about 4am on the way back, we were approaching NoVA and up ahead was an overpass. For some reason, my tired mind registered the black underneath the dimly lit overpass as a solid black wall. For about 2 solid seconds, I couldn't react, my mind desperately scrambling in between why engineers would put a solid wall across the highway and that what I was seeing was not true. After I few seconds, I realized it must not be true, removed my foot from above the brakes which was was ready to start mashing, and back to the accelerator. Panic sloooowwly subsided and I hesitantly kept going forward.

It was very scary to me in that first instant.

[jrossowvue30]

I used to love night driving, but in the last year or so my eye sight has gotten worse at night. My eyes seem to not adjust to light, or lack there of, the same way they used to. Oncoming traffic basically blinds me and it takes a minute or two and sometimes longer for my eyes to readjust. Even if I'm not being blinded by oncoming traffic and if it is a dark road I have a hard time seeing what is ahead of me. If it's raining I'm going based on memory if its a road I travel often.

I know most people say the lower on the kelvin scale your lights are the better but I find in my e36 which has 6000k HIDs allows me to see far better than the stock 4300k HIDs that are in my e60. It is almost as if the blue hue of the 6000K lights puts down enough contrast for my eyes to pick up. I tried putting yellow Lamin-X on my e60 and although it did help put a yellow hue to the light output it didn't help my eyes out at all. It amazes me that crappy DJ auto projectors allow me to see better than my e60's active headlights allow.

[marshallnoise]

The only time I get freaked out driving at night is back roads where there isn't much lighting, as you noted, but when its been raining and the road is super black asphalt. In a car I was not too terrified, but when on my motorcycle I would get freaked out. Especially with the rain, traffic coming the opposite way, dark as hell, lights hitting my helmet/mask causing refracting lights, all the while coming out of the Badlands on a winding road. Yeah, that freaked me out.

[dnguyen1963]

7 years ago a friend and I made a trip down to Abingdon VA from DC to pick up a parts e30, swapped in some engine mounts, and then drove back. The seller was your average teenager and took until 3pm to respond so we could leave. At about 4am on the way back, we were approaching NoVA and up ahead was an overpass. For some reason, my tired mind registered the black underneath the dimly lit overpass as a solid black wall. For about 2 solid seconds, I couldn't react, my mind desperately scrambling in between why engineers would put a solid wall across the highway and that what I was seeing was not true. After I few seconds, I realized it must not be true, removed my foot from above the brakes which was was ready to start mashing, and back to the accelerator. Panic sloooowwly subsided and I hesitantly kept going forward.

It was very scary to me in that first instant.

Must have been one hell of a smoke joint...

[kronus]

george, you might want to visit an opthalmologist.

[Kershaw]

Must have been one hell of a smoke joint...

No, just tired.

[Stanley Rockafella]

I'm used to driving with snow covering the road and "erasing" the road almost completely, so a dark road doesn't bother me. I also have better than 20/20 vision and exceptional night vision.

are you eyes fixed in one position and your head able to swivel almost a full 360 degrees?

If so, you might be owl

[supermansocks95]

I've fallen asleep on the interstate while driving once when I was 14. And that was in the morning when it was light out. So I'm always trying to be careful when I drive long distances or at night. I don't really care for driving at night on those central Kansas backroads. Some of them don't have street lights, or some of our residential streets for that matter.

[Ether-D]

I'm with you GG. I don't like night driving one bit. And I think those reflectors should be a requirement on every single road, ever.

[george graves]

george, you might want to visit an gynecologist.

How dare you! Wait, let me put my glasses on....

george, you might want to visit an opthalmologist.

Oh my my, boy is my face red.

I'm kidding.....

I have great vision, just I hate it when I'm on a dark road and there are no markers! Drives me crazy.

[rturbo 930]

My problem with night driving is oncoming cars. When I first started driving my Jetta, the windshield was pitted so badly that any time someone was coming toward me, the glare was so bad that I couldn't even see and I had to guess to figure out where the road was. After that was replaced, the headlights were the weak point - they were original on a car with 500k, not very good to begin with, and in such terrible shape that they didn't do anything at all to speak of. The ones I replaced them with were better, but still leave a lot to be desired. At least I can see now. Still have trouble with glare from oncoming cars, but it is what it is, and not much I can do about it, unless someone knows something I don't.

As for driving at night in the rain - nope.