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This can also really depend on the windshield. It looks exactly like this in my ~40 year old car due to all the microscopic scratches the glass has accumulated over time. I should probably have it replaced at some point.
Mine isn’t that bad - only 20 years old but has seen all sorts of things from rocks and sand to hail and is just pitted bad enough to be annoying. But it’s that fact that I’ve seen the abuse it’s gone through without the first hairline crack that makes me cautious to get rid of something that’s stood the test of time. It’s either the angle or the glass (doubtful), but at this point it can’t be just luck, right? I just hear horror stories of replacement glass that isn’t fitted right, leaks, or breaks early on. I can deal with it a bit longer.
Polish it.
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Yes, costs very little really (pad, holder for any drill I assume you have and glass polish, perhaps 40 $, mostly for the polishing compound), and only takes about an hour.
I’ve watched someone do it before but the results were not that convincing. It was a small improvement though.
I don’t need to imagine.
Young friend of mine was checking out my new red-dot sight.
“Why does it look like a star?”
“Oh. I have bad news for you.”
Don’t think he believed me but he’s in the Air Force now and no corrective lenses. 🤷🏻♂️
At least the starbursts make street lights pretty at night 🫠
That looks like the windshield’s fault. Time to wash your car.
OP might also need glassed, my vision looked less worser than this but similar in the distance before I got glasses
Due to a childhood accident, I have a vastly different astigmatism in each eye so the lines and streaks are all double vision and ghostly.
Either your windows need cleaning / defogging, you got some shit coating on it
You could actually need glasses and I say this as someone who wasn’t aware they needed glasses for distance for most of their life, your vision looking like this especially with the the light halos and blurriness in the distance
Its called astigmatism
As someone with astigmatism, this is how some people see the world all the time.
If anyone is reading this thinking that the lines like in the OP are normal and everyone sees them, it is not. go see an optometrist.
and that’s without the LED headlights pointing at you!
And like a driver can get used to things on the windshield, you can also tune out star bursts. I do agree they’re distracting but it doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t drive safely with those.
As long as they stay vertical you’re fine.
Except for you know, the almost completely invisible truck in front of Op
im so glad i started wearing glasses in high school. i had no idea my vision was bad, but i saw this in the car when my parents were driving. i thought this was normal.
i always wondered if my vision would be as good as theirs when i got older because they could read the street signs. i did not own a smart.
Don’t worry, car collisions are only one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US.
Who cares if you’re blind, you need to go places. Here’s your license. The other shiny dots are just NPCs.
Anything but public or active transit.
Me when people tell me I should use dark mode: How do you read the blurry letters?
Lemmy’s dark mode seems ok as long as the screen’s not too bright, I think the letters are gray and not white which helps.
I’m a programmer with pretty bad astigmatism, and didn’t go to an eye doctor until my late twenties. I had never worn glasses before that, and had no idea how fucked my vision was.
Yet, I still have no problem writing code in dark mode without glasses. Even though the text is blurry, I’ve gotten used to it. I squint a lot, and idk if there are any negative consequences from doing that, but glasses tend to tire out my eyes faster, so I sometimes prefer the blurriness.
Some of us just got used to it before cheap monitors could show black letters on a white background.
ITT people with astigmatism (whether they know it or not)
Can you get astigmatism from LASIK/PRK?
I never had this until I had PRK.
Nope but the starburst/halo thing comes from either Lasik (not sure what prk is) or astigmatism. I have both.
No idea. I am not a doctor and I do not have enough life experience with eyesight problems to know
U Uber or Lyft bro?
