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Seems unsafe but you rarely hear about accidents? I guess that answers your question
Well I do live in norway so I guess that explain parts of it. Still felt extremely dangerous being blinded everytime someone forgot to turn off their high beams around the corner
I kinda see your point, but I also never had any problems with it.
It‘s massive light pollution to illuminate all those square kilometres of street, not even talking about the installation and power costs and all that for nobody using the street 90% of nighttime
And as you noticed, if someone is to use it, they have light already included, so the actual question should be „why the heck do some countries have roadlights at their fast streets“
„why the heck do some countries have roadlights at their fast streets“
Belgium because they couldn't shut down their nuclear plants at night, so they had to use the excess electricity somewhere.
Basically every road with asphalt has road lights in norway
Too many. Belgium eg they put lights up, they have far less track to illuminate. We have reflectors.
I understand it would be expensive to maintain, but the reflectors are far apart and you often don’t see more than a hundred metres ahead of you. Which is like three seconds
Totally concur, once I drove in the deep west near france and my headlights weren´t the bightest, and I was the only one ont the road. Really had to concentrate. Germany sadly is very low tech. Norway has heated autobahns ffs
Our roads aren’t heated, but yes it’s very nice, we have very safe road infrastructure fortunatley. Fun fact, many of the exits at the german autobahn are so «short», that it couldn’t legally be called a highway in norway. Those parts of the road with such exits would be called (directly translated) «engine traffic road», and have a lowered speed limit.
What do you need lights on the autobahn? There is nobody coming in your direction. And why are you driving in the left lane while there is nobody on the right lane?
I think OP doesn't understand that u meant ahead of him.... totally understandable why you are upset about people who don't drive right when there is space... it makes me sick. I don't know about any passing car and the car ahead looks like it drives left too... so there is always the possibility that OP is trying to hide the fact that they drove left without passing. Anyway please only make pictures from the right lane when there is space to avoid any problems here....
Making a lot of assumptions based on a blurry photo. We passed a car as I wrote this post and had to include a photo so I took a quick picture, which happened to capture exactly how blinding it is. Probably wouldn’t have been a problem ten years ago but new cars have so strong headlights that they’re blinding even without high beams. We didn’t drive in the left lane just for the sake of it lol
Of course I make my assumptions, driving on the left lane is a sinn if you do it wrong... it's true I feel like new cars blind more too but they usually also have the technology to turn of part of the light so oncoming traffic doesn't get blinded so much. Could be an older car with illegal light bulbs or maybe wrongfully adjusted lights due to to much weight. Usually flashing the high beams twice signals the oncoming traffic that you're blinded and they usually turn it off... I guess there is not much else you can do to change that.
..because we passed a car? And what do you think the light in the photo is lol. Because there are no lights and barely any reflectors, people turn to high beams which can be very blinding in the dark
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