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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 140 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Can we address headlights that are brighter than the sun now?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 94 points 11 months ago (3 children)

my issue isn't really with the brightness, it's the height. Don't get me wrong bright headlights are annoying as fuck, but a huge ass truck behind me with their headlights literally higher than my back window is insane.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I don't know the white point on some of the LED headlights is extremely taxing to look at at night.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

My car has adjustable headlight height and I love it. I put em all the way down because they’re stupid bright.

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I hope European-style adaptive headlights become the norm in the USA eventually. Some higher-end cars have a matrix of LEDs instead of one bulb per headlight, and they can programmatically dim just some of the LEDs. If you have your headlights on but there's a car in front of you (or on the other side of the road, whatever), the high beam will dim just the area the car is in. This happens automatically while you're driving.

This is an option in some European vehicles (or may be standard on high end ones) but they have to explicitly disable the feature when exporting to the USA.

The USA did approve something relating to this, but it must not be sufficient since the European manufacturers are still disabling the feature in the USA.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From personal experience in Europe, I can tell you that it sounds great in theory, but it's horrible in practise. I get routinely blinded by headlights here and I feel like it has only gotten worse with the advent of LED headlights.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 11 months ago

Not all manufacturers use adaptive headlights, and on some cars it's only available as an upgrade whereas there's a lot of people driving base models.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting, I have those on my car and I actively avoid using them.

It can't cope with anything more than a simple scenario (dim around car in front, deal with on coming car in other lane). If you also have pedestrians and vehicles on side junctions, then you burn their eyes.

So, I'd assumed it was a US feature (straight, wide roads) brought over here

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, why'd you have to bring up the sun again?

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE SUN

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That and buttons that are almost as flat as touchscreens.

I want my clickety-click Fallout and Star Wars rugged industrial feeling.

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its worse in the rain and even worse still in the snow.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

And for some reason my state still doesn't have properly reflecting paint, so everyone drives with their high-beams on because otherwise you can't see the lanes. The net result is that nobody can see anything because they're constantly being blinded by oncoming traffic.

It sucks all the way down...

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never had an issue with them but then I live in Europe, where auto-adjusting/adaptive lights aren't just legal it's a requirement if you want to make the headlights permanent high-beams.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish adaptive lights were legal in the USA. Manufacturers like BMW have to disable the feature at the factory because their implementation isn't approved for usage in the USA.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 11 months ago

I saw this, but apparently the European ones don't meet the US guidelines, and the Euro manufacturers aren't currently redesigning and recertifying their headlights to meet the US guidelines.