THEY see so YOU don’t have to!
We die in the dark so they can live in the light
Also: trucks with the LEDs being higher than real cars, behind you.
I’ve driven sedans/compact cars my entire life. I’m seriously getting a suv or crossover just because of all the damn lifted LEDs blinding me.
I really wish there was regulations on the lumens output on these freaking newer headlights. Used to be halogens on luxury cars but not its literally every car has bright ass LEDs.
Lifted trucks with idiot owners have entered the chat.
Went to Houston recently for a thing and the number of lifted trucks I saw was astonishing. Most of them didn’t even have the wheels to fit the lifted trucks either so they just looked super awkward. The dumbest one I saw was a lifted SUV where only the front wheels were lifted.
The ones with regular wheels might be the better ones. Some fraction of them have a different set of off-road tires they swap to rather than drive on 40" all the time.
I had a dickweed in a lifted truck pass me last night. That fucker had like 12 lights on the front. They lit up the area like daylight. Why cant the NTSB make a change for what is legal so we can get these dicks off the road.
The NTSB is not a legislative government body, they are an investigative government body, they can only make recommendations for other government bodies to act on
I think the agency would be the NHTSA, but I don’t know much teeth they have in making or enforcing regulations.
Those are illegal for road use where I live, but it doesn’t stop people.
It’s not illegal if it’s not enforced.
Idiots that don’t change the headlight aim after installing LED lights.
Loads of newer vehicles have auto adjusting headlights. There needs to be s lumen cap, anything over should be illegal.
The vast majority of what blinds me on my drives are completely factory headlights. There are still those with aftermarket bulbs, but I get blinded by stock Dodge Rams and Toyota Highlanders all the time.
Fun fact! The NHTSA requires any aftermarket replacement LED bulb be approved by them, and have noted in this letter that not a single aftermarket replacement bulb has received such approval.
As of writing this comment, LED retrofit headlights are illegal. It’s just that this rule hasn’t been enforced in a very long time (if ever)
To be fair they do seem to have approved LEDs on big trucks which are the eye fuckingest type of headlight arrangement
They’re talking about after market upgrades, not factory installs.
Can confirm. I had after market xenon’s in my old car. I took great pains to make sure I had the correct housings and everything was aimed. To my surprise, they never checked
It isn’t just the aim. The ice cold color temperature hurts.
I live in the SF Bay Area and about 20% of cars are driven with their high beams on all the time. The drivers just click that stalk and leave it there no matter what. It’s an epidemic.
They think the blue indicator means their headlights are on.
Technically not wrong.
Seeing this all the time in Chicago too. It’s really frustrating. Coupled with the same vehicle height and regular light brightness inflation that’s been occurring it’s really bad.
I thought this was just a Portland thing… “surely everyone can’t be that stupid”
My latest pair of glasses have a yellow tint for this very reason
Are the glasses actually effective? Seems like the effect is controversial and perhaps detrimental.
https://www.healthline.com/health/night-driving-glasses#do-they-work
They technically work for me. They make bright lights darker… Because they make everything darker. I can’t see anywhere near as good normally while wearing them.
That’s interesting. Mine don’t darken at all, if very little. Instead they appear to shift the light, making a white-blue turn green, and turning yellow into orange - almost red. Doesn’t help much with glare or light intensity, but the colour change means that those LEDs don’t burn into my eyes causing me to see a black spot for a few minutes.
I’ve heard to keep away from normal " yellow tinted night driving sunglasses" or fishing/daytime polarized glasses, but I don’t know the exact science.
Conversely… people can’t see as well wearing these glasses or having treated windows so their headlights get brighter… this is kind of bananas
I see this more in cities. I feel like people who drive in constantly lit streets, don’t understand when to use highbeams, because they never have to.
Same in Miami. It’s infuriating
It’s gotta be some kind of meme, where friends tell friends to do the thing, and they pass it on, because it’s gotten worse and worse over time.
How do you know they’re not really bright stock/aftermarket lights?
Far fewer than 1/5 vehicles in SF/SJ have their high beams on IMO.
Seems to be happening all over past few years. I have my psychological theories as to why, but I’ll save those for later.
They’re in cahoots with HD vision.
A “trick” I learned was to look down and to the right side of the road at the lines so you can still see where you are going but don’t have to go blind.
Another “trick” I learned is that headlights don’t work after you smash them with a sledgehammer.
Whichever trick you want, they should both work.
I think there’s something wrong with lights being sold for cars that are so bright the strategy is “look as far away from the car driving at you as possible”.
Like I have them on my car. I get flashed for having my brights on constantly, then I hit them with the literal light of the sun and I think “wow this power is ridiculous”.
Mine has “auto brights” that I swear were designed by an evil bastard. They flashed people often enough that I’ve taken to turning them off and just go with my normie lights unless it’s country driving now.
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I would like those but I also live somewhere where Ford fusions have light bars so I try not to care too much anymore.
They make 4500k led headlights now, saw them a while back bought a set, totally great to get the life and clarity of leds while my conscience rests easy.
They could’ve always done that, only reason we got the whites was so that everyone would know you have a recent car.
Both were rendered obsolete with led headlights. And cars behind blinding the driver way too much.
Good thing though is they see my finger preeetty clear without opening the window.
It got very dangerous to drive at certain roads. I know plenty of people how stopped driving after sundown. Even if it is good for the environment; When they need to take at trip at such times, they shall not be in danger. Also LEDs are light pollution. And it madr some people feel superior ehich harmed driving culture. Humans are ignorant fucks.
When did Limmy & Jon Hamm have a kid?
Protip: if you clean grime off the inside of your windshield, it will reduce the amount of light refraction coming into you and the result will you will see much more clearly.
I have to wear blue-blocking glasses when I drive at night for this very reason
I understand your concern, BUT
My LEDs will automatically cut out the part of the high beam that your car is in, while still illuminating to your sides. You’ll actually have better visibility to look out for animals coming from the side of the road. You’re welcome!
Now those people who put LEDs in their halogen housings, or worse, lift a truck without re-aiming the headlights? Sometimes I think road rage is valid.
I wish my windshield can turn into a oneway mirror. Let’s see how YOU like it!
Just turn on your brights?
I want them to be blinded by their own fancy lights.
Then they’ll flash theirs and completely blind you.
Just install lasers, you can blind them, with SCIENCE!
So many people in my area have absurd headlight brightness, lots of trucks with extra lights on top too. It’s ridiculous. Fuckers could blind the sun.
That was me today, coming home from my eye exam.
Almost every Tesla I pass at night has the headlights set to “sunburn.” I dunno if it’s the nature of the hardware, some kind of over-zealous automatic adjustment, or if Tesla drivers are just like that.
Teslas have a thing that automatically turns off the high beams when it sees another car driving towards it. Does it work all the time? Idk.
It does have that feature, but it’s worse than just leaving the high beams on. It uses the cameras to try to detect cars. It detects cars way later than my old Mazda used to and then right as the car gets close to passing you, the camera loses sight of it and flips the high beams back on. Looks like you are trying to intentionally blind people.
This kind of system should be illegal.
They also have a ‘feature’ where they automatically brake check the car behind you if you’re using cruise control on a bendy road. The computer interprets oncoming traffic as an imminent collision and slams the brakes.
That sounds like a great idea and I’ve experienced it zero times out of many :(
The Tesla cruise control feature turns the ‘auto’ high beams on every time you activate it and the feature is really poorly implemented. The camera it uses to detect other cars will loses sight of you when you get close and it’ll flip the highbeams on in your face.
“First, do no harm.”
– No tech company ever
Such a smart car that it automates being an asshole.
