I know I’m not the only one who feels like I’m getting visually assaulted everytime I drive at night. It was bad 10 years ago but now, it seems like headlight manufacturers have a deal with insurance companies and optometrists to make the lights as bright as possible. Is this ever going to stop or is there some kind of race in the headlight industry to see who can reproduce the power of the sun first?
This probably sounds stupid, but I have a simple solution.
Headlights are aimed straight out in front of the driver-which unfortunately is also the oncoming driver’s line of sight. Why not cross their aim of lights so driver aims towards passenger and vice versa.
This takes the drivers light which is directly blinding and aims away, then the passenger light is also slightly aimed more away. Still illuminates the whole front of the road and car, maybe better peripheral even. The only negative is right as they pass each other, the passenger light his the oncoming car, BUT should be way shorter exposure and more indirect so less blinding…
Idk, just my $.02
AFAIK headlights are supposed to be calibrated and low beams should point downward towards the road.
The problem is people with uncalibrated lights as well as those driving with high beams.
The last thing is that newer cars have sensors. When there are no lights facing you they put high beams automatically and then they lower them when sensing a car ahead. Sometimes the software fucks up and leaves the high beams.
Smh, more automated shit to break and be less for people to pay attention to and control…
Automated lights last about 2 years before the fucking sensors break and cost thousands to fix. Give me back my stomp switch 😁
What can any of us do about anything? Everything sucks ass and I have no idea what to do. Should I talk to my literal neo nazi neighbors until I’ve somehow successfully re-educated them? That’s fucking stupid and not possible. The second they turn around from our conversation, they see a television, in their own house, in all the restaurants, in every waiting room in the country, blaring FOX News.
Going over to a Facebook market place pickup, and seeing a dude with Fox just playing in the afternoon on a weekend. I was just like “you really choose to do this in your free time?”. I felt nothing but genuine pity. And I got a pretty cool green enamel sink for free, so I wasn’t about to say anything.
Here in vietnam, probably half of cars and bikes have yellow headlights that don’t mess with your night vision, then white brights.
In Canada, the federal government just put out a nationwide poll for input on this exact subject, as it’s coming near to the time to review the related legislation. It’s very possible that some of the headlight implementations currently on the road will soon be illegal nationwide.
Thank god, I’ve been sick of this shit for over a decade. I don’t know who would vote against dimmer lights. Do you have a link for this poll?
In regional areas the extra light at night is genuinely helpful.
However, thats on unlit roads with so little traffic that you only see an oncoming car once every 5 or 10 minutes.
On roads with more traffic theyre just not necessary because there aren’t any animals or other obstacles.
In regional areas the extra light at night is genuinely helpful.
Bro, that’s what the high beams are for.
The current situation is the normal (low beam) headlights on some “newer” cars are so bright, I could turn of my headlights at night and the car behind me gives enough light for me to see without a problem.
Oh I thought thats what everyone was complaining about.
Everyone here has after market LED light bars or spot lights. Factory lights and evern high beams are no big thing but light bars have the fire of a thousand suns.
The poll closed 20 April: https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night
I seem to recall it opened in February. There were lots of news articles on Lemmy about it at the time.
I’m sorry you can’t see, but I can see great.
I feel concerned about your shitty vision. You could pay me to fix that.
What if another lifted F750 with bright white Xenon headlights is coming in the other direction?
Highlander rules. The winner takes the losers headlights and adds them onto their monster truck.
This is the plot of Mortal Engines.
26% on rotten tomatoes but 4.5/5 on amazon? Well…I guess I may as well watch it…
We stop, get out, and kiss.
It’s a game a chicken to see who looks up from their phone.
Hell I’d take Xenon lights over LED. Xenon have a more defined line at the edge of the beam whereas LED is more dispersed or scattered, so it’s more blinding.
Wouldn’t be so bad but some idiots can’t figure out how to aim their newly lifted truck’s lights downward and instead install a bunch of LED light bars to light up half the neighborhood!
There’s been a ton of coverage on this, not sure that it matters. The physics of car fired harpoons to attack other cars is eluding me, while I develop many patents on the matter
I’m passionate about this issue, between this and the size of the vehicles it has made night driving miserable, I used to love a nice relaxing night drive.
Trucks with 3 sets of LED lights blinding me all the time
Yes, it’s like the wild west. In addition to the too-bright headlights, I’ve seen trucks with additional bars of lights on top, or one time I saw one with a big ass panel of ultra-bright LEDs right on their front grill. Like what the fuck, if you need that much light you shouldn’t drive, and if you’re being that much of an asshole you certainly shouldn’t. We’ve really been conditioned to accept so much asshole behavior in the USA. To me freedom has nothing to do with driving a fucking monster truck on the road.
As someone with an astigmatism, I genuinely don’t see the difference. All lights have annoying glare. You learn to deal with it, and see around them.
walking at night is kinda hard now because your eyes will adjust to the dark and then suddenly the brightest car ever drives by and then you just cant see
Calibrated headlights shouldn’t impair vision too much. Laser headlights are becoming more mainstream too, those gets even brighter but directed. Do you have an astigmatism by chance? Is it aftermarket and modified headlights causing the issue? My pet peeve is lifted trucks running brights behind me. Could be 6 car length back and still light up my interior like a stadium
Well obviously if its a big enough problem to be regulated its not imaginary, and only due to something like alignement
Poorly aimed headlights are the real killer. They might not even be brights, they’re just aimed to the heavens because people don’t know how to maintain their car.
The adaptive headlights are perfectly capable of blocking out the blinding cold white light modern headlights have, they just don’t use it in the US, and it’s only partially in use in the EU.
It’s absurd that they don’t mandate it in LED and Laser headlights for both high and low beams
feels like I’m getting visually assaulted everytime I drive at night.
That is only a problem in these shitty countries where they have neither any rules nor TÜV (and therefore technology remains in the last century)
Example of a modern car light:
That is not an example of modern car light, but Audis plans for a future car light that is not on the market yet.
That is not an example of modern car light
So, you wouldn’t call it modern then?
Or not a car light?It’s not a car light yet.
I don’t think modern is a synonym of future
Here you are lol
https://nightriderglasses.com/product/night-rider-glasses/
I was actually planning to make some of these out of safety glasses and some tinted film i had lying around
but that film doesn’t seem to be lying around anywhere at the moment…
Well that’s unfortunate. Also it’s a bit dumb having to buy more stuff to keep track of in response to cars dick waving over how quickly their low beams can kill a vampire
Here’s my take:
There used to be a time when headlights really did not penetrate the night as much as they could, esp. with increasing speeds.
Making them brighter was reasonable. So they invented Halogen lights. But at some point the whole thing ran away I suppose, making them even brighter became a selling point.
Add to that the SUV effect: “most importantly, me and my loved ones are safe in this rolling fortress”, you can see how we got here.
I used to drive a very, very old car. Now there’s a law in Germany that allows older cars to keep on running the way they used to even if the same aspects would be illegal in a newer car. This car did not even have Halogen lights. I had trouble seeing, every time another car passed me on the road. The difference in brightness was - well, blinding. It was legit dangerous.
I believe the brightness of Halogen lights is totally sufficient.
I sometimes borrow my dad’s truck, a '93 ranger, when my car is in the shop or I need to move something big
And the headlights on that thing are terrible, after driving around in more modern vehicles it feels like they barely light up the road in front of you. It’s actually almost a little scary to drive at night sometimes.
It does have halogen bulbs, not significantly different from the ones in my own car, but the way the reflectors and such are designed around those bulbs is clearly very different,.
Counterpoint: I drive a 98 chevy and I can see fine at night because my eyes are good unless someone is in the oncoming lane and their headlight spill washes out my vision. People that can’t see adequately with old-style headlights simply should be legally restricted from night driving. (The same way vision-impaired people are restricted from all driving)
Conservative governments have spent 3 generations, the world over, convincing everyone that deregulation is always a good thing.
