Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.
Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Then stand still
I don’t think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.
I would love to know why anybody would downvote this observation.
I guess some people can’t imagine a 2-lane, opposed traffic route/rural highway. 🤷
An actual adult in the room.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?
Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/321779430
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Thank you for this!! I’ll be picking some up this weekend.
Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.
I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.
I have some BKF for the kitchen sink but didn’t know they made toilet cleaner, thanks for the tip!
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/321779430
Sweet, thanks! Fingers crossed this will be the answer to my shower woes 🤞
I’m rooting for you! I’m convinced it’s magic so it might even cure diseases, who knows.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
[off topic]
https://bookshop.org/p/books/postal-compendium-bryan-edward-hill/cf3c266991cb9b1f?ean=9781534399440&next=t
You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He’s your ‘wise hermit.’
Well as someone who has crewed on race cars and had a hand in building more than a few, not a single word of what you said was wrong.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person with a partner who is on the spectrum, I cannot say how much I appreciate her and you.
We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about “getting around to it” and dont.
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
I’m impressed you got your windshield replaced in one hour on Black Friday
Lol! I had it replaced two months ago. Of course now I’m wondering if Safelite runs Black Friday sales
Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.