at night these days, I legit drive around with my left hand shielding my sideview mirror, and my rearview flipped up so it's on that light-cutting mode.
Was there a time in the past when you drove around at night with your rear view mirror not in night mode? I've been doing that since I started driving 40ish years ago. I didn't realize it was a thing to not do it.
I do miss the old floor mounted high beam switch on many older cars. It was very convenient to just tap your foot on the top of the dead pedal to turn them on/off. I don't know why that stopped being a thing.
With electric mirrors and longer highway drives, I often just adjust my side mirrors outwards so they don't reflect light into my eyes. Of course this also makes them not work for seeing cars around me, hence only doing it on longer highway drives with light traffic where I won't be changing lanes much, and when I do I can spend plenty of time turning my head or adjusting the mirrors back. (Adjusting them out in one direction only is key to getting them back to the right position easily).
at night these days, I legit drive around with my left hand shielding my sideview mirror, and my rearview flipped up so it's on that light-cutting mode.