Driving is always a very stressful experience for me and lately it has gotten so much worse
please for the love of god can this country please get any kind of public safety measures passed. literally just stick a railing on somewhere that someone might fall off of. pass some toothless legislation. literally anything please
Afaik there are regs that make those lights illegal and require specific alignment of headlights so they don’t blind people, but there’s no enforcement, and people constantly misalign the lights with shoddy installs. idk, I hate it, driving is dangerous enough as it is.
It’d be easy as shit to have a pubic initiative drive for free light adjustment. Pigs could do something useful for once and pull these things over for referral to an adjustment center. But no, we can’t have reasonable things that improve safety. I learned today that Tennessee apparently doesn’t have driver’s training, kids just have an adult sign off that they can drive.
I learned today that Tennessee apparently doesn’t have driver’s training, kids just have an adult sign off that they can drive.
I sure hope the literacy rate of Tennessee is good enough for them to read the road signs…
California has you do a smog check every other year, I think a safety inspection would be nice too (and make it for the whole country). People who are really dedicated to being assholes will work around it, but most people who just don’t realize that they’re blinding everyone else will get their headlights angled downward and then never touch them again.
We have the regulation in the Europe.
But high intensity LEDs suck here too. Especially on the freaking SUVs.
Too much blue light, too much light from a small area.
A classic halogen headlights, of course, have disadvantages. But they are more pleasant for the eyes. If only aligned correctly…
I was borrowing a short car and a truck pulled up behind me with it’s ultra-bright while lights directly at eye level. Unbidden my mind conjured the image of a man very like me stepping out of the car with a sledge and smashing the truck’s headlights.
I drive a tiny vehicle and this shit happens to me all the fucking time. I just want to kneecap every single person that has the suburban assault vehicles for this singular reason alone.
If you have time, slowing to legal minimum usually results them in doing a dangerous overtake.
I can’t die happy until I have caused one of these fuckers to roll their SUV.
I just want to kneecap every single person that has the suburban assault vehicles for this singular reason alone.
And them wasting gasoline for vanity and ego makes me want to
Electric side mirror adjusters can sometimes be used to angle to light back into their eyes.
I also think to myself, “Self, if ever I did some crazy cosmetic thing to my car, it would be to have some highly polished chrome panel with a series of electric motors that could adjust the angle to be used when somebody behind me has headlights that are too bright.”
It’s not just that they’re horribly, unnecessarily bright–but the drivers never adjust their angle because it’s not common knowledge that you’re supposed to do that when you get a car. It’s right there in the manual. LED headlights even have an attempted safety measure where they have a hard line stop instead of a gradual drop-off, to avoid blinding people–so when they’re correctly angled they’re… Okay, I guess. Not great, but better. So when it feels like they’re beaming directly into your eyeballs, that’s because they are.
That, and idiots putting LED headlights into their old cars without switching the housing, which essentially eliminates the safety measures and turns them into million lumen lasers.
LED headlights even have an attempted safety measure where they have a hard line stop instead of a gradual drop-off, to avoid blinding people
Whoever thought this was a sufficient safety feature had only ever driven on a Minecraft superflat map. Even looking past people having them badly aligned, this breaks down if the road has the slightest change in elevation. Oops, that truck ahead of you is actually climbing a 4 degree incline so now instead of being above that hard cutoff the lights are right in your eyes.
They need to be less bright, and more importantly they need to be less blue. There needs to be a very small range of acceptable headlight hues.
yea those are bright but folk needs new wipers too
modern LED headlights are extremely terrible for everybody else on the road and I hate them so much
