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Poorly installed aftermarket headlights. Being LED has little to do with it.
Not just aftermarket. Teslas are notorious for having overly bright, misaimed headlights.
People keep telling me that acktually Tesla headlights have hi-tech sensors that avoid blinding people. And I’m like “I’m people, and they blind me all the time!”
You're not a person by Elon's standards. It uses AI facial recognition to see if you're a billionaire and if you're not, it re-aims to blind you more.
"Yeah but that's just an anecdote bro"
In many countries there are biannual safety checks, we have that here, and I haven't noticed that.
But it is also known that Tesla recommendations for safety are very lacking. So 30-40% if Tesla cars fail the safety check here, and have to go to the shop and get fixed before being able to drive on the road legally.
Teslas notoriously have almost no quality control, so that makes sense.
There is no US regulation on headlight brightness, so it's a little of that and also new cars maxing out what they can put on the car. Add to that the height of trucks and SUVs.
LED lights are far brighter though, and the worst color wavelength for vision.
Yeah, I think a good amount of the issue with them could be resolved simply by using warmer color LEDs - it seems so obvious that I don't get why they don't.
Need regulations, but it's hilarious to think that the Trump Admin will force the NHTSA to do this.
I despise the color of LEDs. Give me a headache and actually Make it harder to see.
There are regulations but the regulations haven’t been updated since the halogen bulb era. Tests designed for headlights with a single light source can be gamed by led headlight manufacturers to get approval for lamps that are way brighter than the law ever intended. Additionally, the regulations we have aren’t enforced after the design is approved. Manufacturers have to get approval of new designs but no one ever gets a ticket for blindingly bright lights. Lifting your truck or adding extra high wheels requires adjusting the angle of the headlights, but no one ever does that.
Edit: this article talks about it a bit more https://www.cbtnews.com/modern-headlights-too-bright-and-dangerous/
No way, stock leds are everywhere and they're bullshit.
That actually used to be the case, but then people got used to it, and now people think regular headlights are too dim because they don't illuminate way up into the sky like a second sun, and so new cars are coming out with brighter headlights (with higher angles, presumably). But there's no technical reason LEDs have to have their terrible reputation in headlights, so the spirit of your post is correct.
No. 10 years ago you might've had a point but nowadays every new car on the road has blinding LED headlights
This is a real Mercedes-Benz as they ran in magazines, showing you can check how far along a cow's pregnancy is with their stock headlights.
Definitely looks like some Ai image they used.
LED replacement bulbs are a common problem. The beam dip is designed around a single element. However, LEDs can't produce the intense light of an incandescent or halogen type bulb. To compensate, they use an array of LEDs. This creates a large emission surface. Some of the surface is a significant distance from where the element used to be. This completely messes up the beam shaping, throwing light where it shouldn't be.
Combine poor beam forming with higher vehicles, and higher outputs, and LEDs get a very bad rep.
A properly designed LED headlight has far less issues. Unfortunately there are a lot of stock units which also have poor designs.
They don’t teach people how to aim headlights anymore and people refuse to read the manual for the 4000 pound death machine they just purchased. So they even come from the dealership misaimed now and nobody does anything about it. We don’t even have annual inspections in my state anymore since 2002.
As with great many things, half the problem is education.
False.
I hate that this is always the excuse. People are not replacing their headlights with the frequency that would be required for how insanely common blindingly bright headlights are these days.
The other is idiots lifting their 4×4s and not readjusting the angles. They probably wonder why they don't see as well now too.
incorrect. stock LED headlights are blinding