Add to the list of soon-to-be-obsolete things: automotive high-beams.
A little over-dramatic, sure, but give it some consideration. When is the last time you got to use your high beams? Ok, that’s a loaded question. Some people would say “all the time!” and some would say “never!” It depends on how populated your area is.
I was driving home one evening and I was able to use my car’s high beams for the entirety of one span of roadway. I never saw another car. And that made me think back to my previous living location where you’d never get a chance to use your high beams because there were cars on every road at every hour of day.
As we become more overcrowded in this world, our high beam usage is going to become diminished, possibly to the point of being irrelevant. Then again, we’ll probably have self-driving cars by then and we’ll all be shuttled around in cars having nothing more than marker lights on them.
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