Worst part is a lot of those lights are factory.
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yep. my amazon LEDs are dimmer than the factory LEDs on new cars.
It’s not just about brightness. How’s the cut off on your lights? I bet it scatters light way more than OEM lights without a crisp cutoff.
Just because it’s not as bright doesn’t mean you aren’t still blinding people. A dim flashlight in your eye is worse than a bright flashlight aimed below your eyes.
The cut off is GREAT, just as good as OEM.
Some people have no clue how to install them and jack up the alignment. Others just want the brightest light bar on their Jeep Wrangler. You can never win.
It’s even more obnoxious when they are any jacked up trucks so they are right at your eye level, temporarily destroying your vision as you drive past them.
Yeah, the cheap LEDs scatter light everywhere instead of forming a nice beam pattern with a proper cutoff, which is annoying but not exceptionally bright. A lifted truck with brighter OEM LEDs (or much brighter expensive aftermarket LEDs) will sear your eyeballs like a laser.
It's even worst for pedestrians.... Winter is coming and with the sun down at 5pm I'll suffer from this again. I really want to make to huge pickups illegal
They likely are illegal. The last I checked they don't meet federal DoT regulations, and I know they are illegal in my state.
But, is it really illegal if no one enforces it?
I know this is a shitpost, but you should know that your headlight housing can be adjusted to aim properly. Mine was just an allen key and a couple turns to get it right on each side. Now I don't have to lift my truck to point them at your face.
As someone who lives in a rural community and drives to work at 4 am, this hits home for sure.
I hate these people. I just wanna drive to work and not be blind. Ive considered putting some kind of film over my rearview and side mirrors just for this.
I remember reading something about that, in china they put some type of scary image so if headlights are pointing to high up the image reflects on the back window
Oh MR. CU*NT, what a complete cunt.
I commute on a scooter and see the same thing on bike paths too. Even more annoying when it's some brightness of the sun disco strobing directly in your eyes when they could easily rotate it down a few degrees.
I got blinded trying to cross a street by one of those guys who had the damn thing aimed up. He was also on the sidewalk behind parked cars and tells me he'd get hit if he turned it off.
Controversial opinion: bikes don't need lights at all. Reflectors make sense for safety reasons.
I can't see, some idiot blinded me with their headlights. What does the meme say?
Approved shitpost! Serious note, it's primarily the oem's now. What gets me is that all these experts can't figure out that the blue wavelengths are horrible for night vision. Add the 2 billion candle power and now I am grateful to be able to get a sun Yan at 9 pm. There needs to be legislation to dictate color temperature along with a maximum lumens.
Apologies for format and grammar. For the old school Rëððit alum.
Wohoo, go class of 2008!
If by experts you mean engineering and r&d and design, oh they know. But consumers want BRIGHT they want BLUE and they want to SKULLFUCK YOUR RETINAS, so that's what they sell.
Dynamic led arrays ~~souls~~ should be mandated at this point.
Audis
There's a few versions but the major aspects are lighting around the corner, plus my favorites turning off areas that shine into cabs for both oncoming and same direction travel, and illuminating signage. Video is good but watching the tests in person and driving with it is weird but nice. You can see fuckin everything but by the look of it when driving i at least didn't feel like it was blinding.