Buses/trucks W/ Rear Facing Lights

**Ungas** · September 13th, 2003 09:35 AM

City driven vehicles have different settings or alignment as to highway driven vehicles.

My headlights are aimed for long driving highway roads, kalat paharap at medyo malayo. The only downside I see, pag lowered car yung nasa harap ko tutuok sa side view mirrors nya yung beam pattern. Same settings as with my foggies.

Walang uniform height ang mga sasakyan, how would you base it on the standard driver's line of sight? Different vehicle models and makes have different height advantage over the other.

Most taxi's I've seen have manipulated the oe headlight alignment, either nakatutok sa kasalubong or tutok naman na sobrang baba that their headlights works like a flashlight.

Auxilliary driving light users would also agree, that it really helps driving at night when it is turned on. The only solution I could think of right now is for those sensitive eyed drivers should avoid the streets past 6pm onwards.

**Rediesel** · September 13th, 2003 10:24 AM

or have themselves install 4 auxilliary lights with 100 watts each.

hey if you can't beat em join em.

**Ungas** · September 13th, 2003 10:32 AM

Yeah, got that right Rediesel!

**altec** · September 14th, 2003 08:50 AM

I think what pajerokid means is the light these trucks/bus have which face towards the rear that blinds the car following in the same direction. So putting up fog lights like what mazdamazda said or increasing the wattage of your headlights will not offset these lights. In the first place, ang kalaban mo, bus o truck. So maski gaano ka bright ang ilaw mo, wa epek yan sa sinusundan mong truck literally because of the height or ground clearance of these trucks. Di sila masisilawan.
The principle behind these lights is to help the passengers embark/disembark as mentioned by pajerokid. Sa ibang truck naman, nakasetup yan facing the rear wheels of the truck. Purpose is to let the driver see if there are anyone near the rear wheels, so that maiwasan niya makasagasa ng tao, kotse, etc sa gabi. The PROBLEM is that some of these drivers, iba na ang sadya sa mga ilaw. Naghahanap ng away. Especially those jeeps, trucks, or cars that put mirrors at the rear bumper para pag nag hi beam ka, balik sa yo.

**yebo** · September 14th, 2003 10:58 AM

BB gun lang katapat nyan sir! pag may mirror or fog lamps sa likod at nakatutok sa iyo, ka-tsing! tapos sabay overtake hehehe!
dyan tuwang-tuwa ang brother ko pag kasama ko sa probinsya eh, siya kasi may hawak ng BB gun hehehehe!

**jappy** · September 14th, 2003 12:14 PM

hehehe.
kaya nga may 5pcs na foglights sa roofrack namin eh.
yari ang mga bus & truck na kups sa kalye na palaging naka-bright.
papalampasin namin, tapos sabay bukas ng foglights.
tapos cruisin na lang muna, hanggang sa mainis ung truck or bus.
pero siyempre pag may kasalubong patay muna.
kawawa naman yun eh.
hehehe.

yebo
hehehe
na-try na din namin dati yung BB gun thing sa kups na bus.
yung mga biyaheng bicol na Philtranco, sobrang kups yung mga yun sa kalye. walang sinasanto. imagin nagtra-try umovertake sa right side, meaning sa gutter na ng national highway. sakto naman na nasa sasakyan yung BB gun namin. yari siya. biglang napatigil nung nasampolan siya.

**altec** · September 14th, 2003 07:09 PM

BB gun? hmm, masubukan nga. Basag ang ilaw?

**yebo** · September 14th, 2003 07:57 PM

tagos ang Daisy BB pump rifle sa aluminum can pare. pusa nga na natutulog sa roof ng kotse ko tinira ko ng BB rifle tagos sa dibdib eh, pero di namatay. andun pa rin natutulog pa din sa roof ng car ko, buset!

o kaya yung CO2 powered na Daisy BB pistols, yung CO2 nya yung maliit na canister. repeating pa yun! pwede pa yan pang-self defense kung ayaw mo magdala ng real gun sa kotse mo, legal na legal yan.