That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.
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I just wish I could find an aftermarket light replacement that is amber yellow and a proper lumen rating. This absolutely needs to be fixed at the source, but for those stuck with these lights, I am shocked at the lack of 3rd party solutions.
I wish they asked about road maintenance in this survey.
Headlights are an issue but also the fact that I can't see the lines at night when the paint is barely visible during the day.
Back in the day, road paint was super reflective. No idea why they stopped using it.
BC adds reflectors in addition to paint. The paint wears off but the reflectors last a long time and while I thought it was odd when I first moved here I've come to like them
That'd be a provincial survey, not a federal one.
This, and vehicles over a certain size and height should be banned.
Tax by weight and footprint on the road.
After hearing the cry babies about carbon tax, and for our safety, I recommend a straight up ban.
Those bright white headlights should be illegal. Fuck your headlights! Seriously.
Yep, fuck my headlights.. But also you're kind of screwed if you buy a new vehicle these days. There are no other options
I see a lot of new vehicles with lights that might be led but are not blindingly bright. So I would challenge that statement at least in the United States.
As someone with an eye disability (keratoconus) and light sensitivity, I've had to completely give up trying to drive at night because headlights are so physically painful. Sometimes I even have to wear sunglasses as a passenger. It fucking sucks.
Fwiw, I've found a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat is a good way to avoid being tailgated by assholes with laser beams
Just did the survey. I even put I found it on Lemmy π
Aging and cataracts affect magnitude of glare from headlights as well. But for regular vision? Way too bright. So now standards for headlight brilliance should be added to the other standards list like, for example, pickup truck size.
Just make all provincial roads be toll roads based on weight.
You've solved oversized vehicles and have money to maintain roads now.
It is really, really, stupid there are no laws regulating this, but Canada can do nothing unless US does it and that won't happen.
Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.
There are a lot of lighting laws for this stuff, just nobody has enforced it
There are no max headlight brightness laws in Canada.
Halogens are 1200 lumens, but these LEDs are three times that, then some asshole lifts his truck and doesn't re-aim them, because bright lights are yet another penis surrogate. But the bigger problem in Canada is we do not periodically safety inspect vehicles at all, so morons go crazy on Alibaba.
In most countries, vehicles are inspected annually after three years from new.
I guess I mean we have lighting laws or maybe standard is the proper term for NorthAmerican lighting with various US SAE and Canadian motor vehicle SAE regulations for headlight design /aiming. A company I worked for used to work with headlamp and tail lamp data and had a light testing tunnel.
But you throw in a bulb with the wrong focal length for your cars parabola and you get splayed light in all directions instead of a parallel aimed beam. In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
People pass on shoulders now and police do fuck all.
Brodozers have wheels extending several inches beyond fenders and police do nothing. People are putting pretty colors on their DRLs and police do nothing. You can even drive around with a bare aluminum licence plate and no one cares. Little point in laws when they aren't enforced.
Yeah exactly. And the dudes with 4 inch spike lug nuts.
Iβve filled it out already; I recommend everyone else does too.
I'd argue it has become so bad it is now a problem during daylight as well
I was behind a new Mazda 3 the other day and the turning signal was so bright it was leaving an after image in my vision. The bloody turn signal on the back of the car. Crazy.
It has been for a while, because people can't seem to bother checking that they're running with high beams during the day, and for some reason they've turned their lights on. Maybe the vehicle was purchased with the lights on manual and they've never turned them off. I wouldn't put it past some people.
These new bright white lights are bad when not on high beams. Blindingly bad. I even saw a police car (in the us) with them once. Society decays.
Next can we get surveys going to fix the lines on the road that disappear when it rains at night?
We need the European line markers. They're super visible in all conditions!
Because Europe did not rely on road lighting.
This is the way.
Riad lighting is expensive (to install, maintain and operate), doesn't increase road safety (drivers tend to drive faster and lay less attention) and produces a ton of light pollution, splitting habitats and contributing to the insects decline.
They'll say we can't use them because of the snow plows, but they're in use all throughout Scandinavia.
It's a huge waste of electricity. Don't look for common sense in Ontario, we don't even have winter tire laws.
Ontario and some provinces have an oil based paint that stays on tyr road with its reflective properties. BC uses some environmentally friendly paint that is totally faded in no time.
I'm in Ontario. I remember reflective lines when I was a kid in the 90s but I haven't seen them with the reflective property in decades. When it rains, the lines are gone.
Maybe Ontario has switched too. I left near 2010
In ontario, the lines disappear when it's rainy as well. I do think oil based paints are any more reflective, they add that later
I meant the oil bases retains whatever reflective formula they have. Here in BC the lines are gone in a short period and non reflective pretty quickly. Considering we have rain and dark skies all winter you would think they'd fix it.
heh, well i can confirm they aren't reflective in ontario as well
Come to BC in the winter, it will make you think Ontario road markings are amazing. π
heh, with pleasure, BC is gorgeous; even barring the road markings