I had a set of 1000w halogen lamps for photography, absolute lovely light, but yeah, they would heat up the studio in no time at all and if you forgot to put on a glove, you'd burn off your finger prints adjusting the barn doors. I eventually switched to photo strobes.

Lots of photographers love LEDs now, but I just can't get into them, and still use strobes.

Remember also Limelight. Better living via Chemistry.

People self censoring is fucking dumb.

It would be preferred to use the term passionate love making.

I doubt this is as much of an issue in Europe, but here in the States the headlights of the average pavement princess (large truck that hasn't ever seen a day of work) shines directly into the rearview mirror of a regular height car. Nothing aftermarket at all, just stupidly large vehicles being a nuisance.

I still prefer halogen bulbs because they're so inexpensive to replace, while if your LED goes bad it's gonna be expensive costly.

We bought a 2024 volvo recently and it comes with LED headlights. They are hilariously accurate with their beam pattern. Bright as fuck everywhere except the oncoming lane, it almost looks like a defect when driving on an empty road.

European cars with LED headlights are fine because they have to actually prove to their government they pass headlight standards. In the US the manufacturer only has to say they did the regulation. European cars mostly chose to only make European approved headlights.

no, because it is worse

perfectly legal stock headlights here in Canada are absolutely blindingly bright

yet they get mad when I turn my LED highbeams on so that neither of us can see

curious..

You can't just say fuck on the internet

You get Lemmy gold

special night driving glasses

Do tell! I'm interested if you have any tips!

They make those? I can't dive at all at night because of this shit, are they just called driving glasses?

Edit: just saw you explained it lower, sorry

Well, auto-dimming rear-view mirrors have been a thing since the 90's.

Your idea layers onto that, and I'm sure it would require trivial amounts of power (watches have used LCD since the 80's).

I'm pretty sure I've seen LCD used as a dimming method for windows.

I think you speak of a feature that some BMWs have where they have a led matrix for headlights and will selectively turn off the ones aimed at oncoming cars while the rest stay on