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Originally Posted by lowglider
Glad both you and the deer got out unhurt.
One thing to keep in mind when increasing driving safety are also headlight upgrades. With xenon lights on high beams visibility is awesome which translates into muchsafer driving at higher speeds.
It`s just worth it to upgrade with and HID kit, during the night I`ve met al sorts of things lying or moving on the road, not to mention drunk people riding a bicycle with no lights or a reflection jacket.
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I do agree that good headlights at night are a good plan. The problem is that they lead to a false sense of safety, thus leading to the opinion that you can go faster with safety. For example on roads with steeply sloped ditches, the ditches are not illuminated they are in a shaded area, so you can't see what's there, so that even when the horse, moose or cow runs out of the ditch onto the road you can't avoid it because it's too close even though you can see it very clearly when its on the road in front of you. This is the same type of problem encountered at dawn and dusk; there is enough light to see the road but not into the deeper shadows at these times of day. What you do see is much clearer further away on the road. The question you need to think about is what don't you see, and why?
