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A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen (www.thedrive.com)
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[+] -6 points 5 months ago (17 children)

They burned out and needed to be replaced. New ones should never burn out

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

    You say that as if saving $10 on a bulb once every few years is worth the risk of spending $100s or apparently even $1000s if they get damaged.

    There are reasons cars have been getting ever more unaffordable (above and beyond inflation), and stuff like bespoke model-specific headlights requiring complicated tooling to manufacture is one of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Cost wise, no it’s not worth it.

    But you now have an item that

    • never needs to be maintained
    • is brighter
    • works better

    The adaptive headlights in my car are truly amazing, and every time I’m blinded by oNcoming headlight glare I wish everyone had them

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Brighter is a negative trait in my opinion.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I partly agree, headlights are causing harm by blinding other drivers. But adaptive headlights seem to work. Brighter should only be allowed with adaptive headlights

    I can drive through a busy area with “high beams” on but watch dark spots move to keep other cars in the dark

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    So... put LEDs in the same form factor. Now you have lights that don't burn out and can be repaired. You can even use PWM to dim them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    Same form factor is the problem: LEDs need a different beam pattern with a sharp cutoff, otherwise they’re harming other drivers.

    But adaptive headlights are even better. They seem to work really well and I’m a huge fan. I have really bright LED headlights so I can see everything but I can also watch them change to keep other cars in a dark spot so I don’t blind them.

    The combination of super bright LEDs with adaptive headlights seem like a huge safety improvement for us all

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Same form factor doesn't mean same reflectors. It just needs to fit into the same space. You can fit LEDs into that space.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (3 children)

    You could, but capitalism … most cars do not get aftermarket reflectors, no one would pay the significant cost, and LEDs fit into standard reflectors. There’s a whole bunch of failure here

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    We're talking about the sealed headlights with the reflectors contained in them. LED versions have their own reflectors that could be (and I assume are) tuned to work correctly with LEDs.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I don’t think I’ve seen those since before my teenagers were born.

    A few weeks ago I showed my younger kid how to replace headlights on his old car

    The problem is you can find led replacements that fit the same base “for offroad use”

    When to be legal, to not cause glare problems, someone would need to re-engineer the assembly and people would need to be willing to spend that kind of money

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, it's that kind that produce disastrous results. Returning to sealed-beam lamps would solve that issue and make replacement much easier as well, but that would remove a profit opportunity for manufacturers, so it won't happen voluntarily.

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