It all started going down hill when they got rid of the foot switch for high beams.
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If you need lights that have more lumens then the sun to drive at night, you shouldn't be allowed to drive at night
The cybertruck is so poorly designed, if it wasn't legally mandated for vehicles to have headlights, those ugly things would have a night vision HUD projection on the windshield dash screen and nothing else, allowing those IN the vehicle to see, but not allowing anyone else to see the truck at night.
This is just a post
What's up with that?
Audi gave the world this nice upgrade. They also find out people hate it. So they have developed a new headlight that give some kind shadow to other cars. Hopefully this will be a new law for led light.
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Those idiotic LED matrix lights keep conveniently missing the wing mirrors of cars in front when casting their shadow
Arsehole lights for arsehole cars for arsehole people, I guess.
There was a well established and very simple technology for not blinding other traffic. High beam and low beam, with a manual switch. No myriad of sensors and computers that do a worse job than any driver with just half a brain and some small remainder of decency.
any driver with just half a brain and some small remainder of decency
Those are getting more scarce too.
Unfortunately, they do. People seem to think because of all the assistance systems in modern cars, they don't need to pay attention anymore. My daily commute on a narrow country road with largely no centre line has become a harrowing adventure in the past couple years. Idiots are increasingly driving in the middle of, or even on the wrong side of the road. These days even a solid centre line is becoming a mere suggestion.
The worst thing the car industry ever did was turn our vehicles into mobile living rooms.
I still stand firm that driving should be mildly uncomfortable and loud with the intention of keeping you focused.
Every car has auto high beams now, and I gotta wonder what the folks living on country roads think about thousands of cars flashing their lights for the split second there's no oncoming traffic.
And don't forget that people outside of cars exist which are missed 100% of the time
Point your side view mirrors lower and out more? They are to see your sides, the rear view covers the behind.
If they’re set properly, it shouldn’t be reflecting cars behind you into your eyes.
This poster loves blindspots.
You're supposed to be able to rely entirely on your side mirrors, the rear view is for quick glances, it's honestly not a great mirror
If you’re got the rear view, use it and save yourself.
Seems a no brainer.
... Am I supposed to move my side mirrors out of place every time when someone blinds me through them?
How about switch off your fucking high beams when you're driving behind another car instead of making them adjust their mirrors. Not all cars even have rear view mirrors. Vans don't. Mine's aimed at the rear seat so I can see what my kid's doing.
You can't even pass the driving exam here if you use your rear view mirror instead of side mirrors.
... Am I supposed to move my side mirrors out of place every time when someone blinds me through them?
What? Why?
How about switch off your fucking high beams when you're driving behind another car instead of making them adjust their mirrors.
Why are you constantly adjusting your mirrors? You set them and leave them.
Not all cars even have rear view mirrors. Vans don't.
Most come with back up cameras now, maybe install one.
Mine's aimed at the rear seat so I can see what my kid's doing.
Lmfao, you are an idiot.
You can't even pass the driving exam here if you use your rear view mirror instead of side mirrors.
That’s just making shit up.
What? Why?
You were recommending people adjust them to not see behind them when there's someone blinding them. Or were you recommending just setting them far off to the side all the time so you can never use them?
Why are you constantly adjusting your mirrors? You set them and leave them.
You were recommending people adjust them to not see behind them when there's someone blinding them. Or were you recommending just setting them far off to the side all the time so you can never use them?
Most come with back up cameras now, maybe install one.
You ARE aware that those usually only come on when reversing though, right? Right? And are aimed downwards?
Lmfao, you are an idiot.
Takes one to know one
That’s just making shit up.
No, you literally have to visibly move your head to check the side mirrors before maneuvers (including lane changes) for your driver's exam here because you can't rely on the rear view mirror alone. Your side mirrors have to show the blind spots on the side and behind you, not the side of the road or whatever you aim them at.
If you're ever driving behind me with your high beams on and there's nobody else in my car, I'm going to brake check you. Your insurance can pay for my next car.
Our cars are evolving into anglerfish
We have been taken for absolute fools 😔
That cyberjunk inadvertently (probably) like like it's already been in a fender bender, judging by the huge dent and crumple patterns.
Have been contacting different places about 3500k lights for my vehicle but they all just go "what do you mean? Halogen?"
JFC, 3500k colour is possible in LED, halogen, any light. They just don't want to make/sell them.
I'm wondering if this is due to the fact that so many politicians (and, thus, members of regulatory bodies) are OOOOLLLLLLD and need the night to look like the inside of an Apple Store in order to drive.
I think strong lights are needed... I have two cars, one old and one new. Im afraid to drive the old one when its dark because its impossible to see anything.
May not be a popular opinion but thats how it is.
You can't see anything because you're blinded by the other's lights I assume?
so slow down
my 2008 with halogens does perfectly fine
one day someone like me is going to drive head-on into you because we can't see shit because of your asshole headlights
The asshole headlights do less blinding than most 80s and 90s halogens, because the asshole lights have projectors whereas the halogens just shoot whereever the fuck.
didn't realize 80/90s blinding and 2020 blinding were the only options
too bad there isn't a happy medium somewhere around 2010
Modern lights are still less likely to blind you because you may adjust your low beam to spec, but most people don't and halogens typically don't have auto adjustment and many even aim them high because they don't get how low beams are supposed to work.
Also I find that people with halogens or burnt out xenons take longer to switch off their high beams.
The LEDs that blind you are most likely illegal retrofits or lifted trucks. Proper LED lights have very clear low beam cutoffs and multibeam LEDs will literally cut other cars out of their beams.
your premise that the cutoff works well enough is incorrect
source: my fucking life
I'm blinded by "properly aimed" stock LEDs all the fucking time. roads aren't flat. and they're bumpy. hills exist. different elevations exist.
and your point about multibeam LEDs just proves my point more because it completely ignores non-vehicles
I’m blinded by “properly aimed” stock LEDs all the fucking time. roads aren’t flat. and they’re bumpy. hills exist. different elevations exist.
And improperly adjusted halogens will blind you even on flat terrain. And the drivers are more likely to keep their high beams on for much longer before switching over. Same with burnt out HIDs, once the 20 year old projectors have burnt out, the low beams are so shit that people will just drive with high beams into oncoming traffic. Whereas people with actually good lights can turn off their high beams when there's oncoming traffic.
I have an older car and feel like I can't see far enough in front of me, but half the cars driving towards me have lights that blind me. So I'm torn on how I feel about this.
Opposite of my experience. The LEDs are brighter, but they're focused and many cut out other vehicles from the beam. Xenons/HIDs also have cutoffs and even automatic height adjustment by law in Europe, so unless someone's fucked with the suspension, they don't blind you too much on low beams.
Oldschool halogens though? Most used to not have a projector at all. They'd just shine all over the place.
And of course any aftermarket install of HIDs or LEDs is bound to blind people. It's also illegal (except fairly low output LEDs in place of halogens or HIDs sometimes)
This is an america problem.
Europe uses the international standard for headlight regulations, whereas the US has their own standard which is far worse for glare.
US headlights don't have the clear cutoff line. The headlights are allowed to throw significantly more light at the angles that should be dark.
Not only that, the regulations on beam alignment are based solely on angles, and do not account for vehicle height. This means higher headlights both illuminate more of the road, and dazzle more drivers, so automakers mount the headlights as high as possible. American trucks and SUVs are notorious for this. If you drive a normal car in the US, SUVs from the factory will have headlights above your eyeline, which means you get the full force of the headlight beam shined directly into your eyes. Which american regulations also mandate be brighter than Europe.
It must be nice having a real government. I hope to live somewhere that has one someday.
My car has matrix headlights so it can leave oncoming vehicles in a dark area while brightly illuminating the edge and side of the road
Modern lights are good to excellent
You're absolutely right. Headlights have been getting better in the last 10 years I've noticed
I live in a country with a lot of newer cars (not bragging, it is what it is), and the growing amount of led lights really made it more manageable. My car ( Kia Ceed SW 2022) also lights up the road really good, but if you are above the light rays, it's not blinding at all. So I would say the problem existed mostly for cars between 2010 and 2020. So this meme got kinda old
Kinda for what it is saying, yea. This was really an issue when LEDs were primarily aftermarket stuff that wasn't being installed properly.
Now it's just a problem with things like lifted trucks and shit.
new french car with automatic headlights are still mostly shit
I solve this problem by using my full beams.
Neat. I walk.
I use an EV with free charging at work.
At typical driving rates, over a lifetime of driving, the average American motorist will kill 0.006 to 0.01 people in collisions with pedestrians (not counting cyclists). Put another way, every 1,000 miles an American drives imposes about 12 micromorts of death on pedestrians from collisions alone.
And that's not even the brights, which half the drivers will always use around me
2021 huh
Ford F9500 Super Ultra Duty Orphan-Muncher Limited Edition lifted pickup truck with flashbang headlights shining straight into your mirrors.

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