The War Against Headlight Brightness
The War Against Headlight Brightness
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/184198
When you let an industry regulate itself, you end up with the 737-MAX and a reassurance that existing 737 pilots don't need further training to fly it...
Cowards be afraid of the dark
Funny thing. Higher brightness = higher contrast between light and darkness.
Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn't the better interim solution.
While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.
It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.
Modern headlights are blinding to anyone not in the vehicle using them. Oncoming headlights if you're in anything shorter than whatever is producing them makes it near-impossible to see the road.
It isn't just brightness. It's also the height, how they're pointed, and whether the driver is an asshole who doesn't dim the brights for oncoming traffic.
I'm a new driver who drives sometimes, and when I do it's with my grandfather's old car. It is a problem. I don't care what reasons you have to suggest they're better, if I can't see fcking anything at night when a car drives past me, that's a problem. I want to be able to see pedestrians, I want to be able to see if an animal is in my way, roadsigns, literally anything I need to see and I genuinely can't do that. It's blinding and that's not an exaggeration