Most of us has seen that video of the Uber driver as his car strikes a pedestrian. If not, click here if you want to watch it.
There are two views, interior of car and exterior in the same direction the vehicle is traveling. Anyone who has driven through the Texas hill country after dark had probably had a close call with a living or dead animal on the road. Often the traffic just heavy enough that the driver can't keep the brights on for long stretches. But visibility is drastically reduced with dims only.
A deer carcass on the road can be a real hazard. Striking a large dead deer while driving a low fast car could result in a serious accident. And of course, striking a live deer will definitely do some damage.
And with dim light driving the obstacles don't appear soon enough to easily avoid them. There's no easy answer. Slow driving will never make a comeback. The solution might be some sort of dark glasses that will allow drivers to use brights all the time but avoid eye annoyance to oncoming drivers.
That or stop humans from driving in the dark and turn the nighttime over to creatures of the night.
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1:15 PM 3/24/2018
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