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

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.

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.

yea those are bright but folk needs new wipers too

PSA: For anyone experience this all the time at night, but especially when it's rainy/wet. it is most likely their dipshit headlights... buuuuut you should also get an eye exam if you've got the opportunity to do so. I know that's extremely out of reach for a lot of folks but if you can, you should.

It's extremely common for halos, streaky/blurry lights, etc. at night to be early or uncaught indicators of eyesight conditions like:

• Astigmatism
• Glaucoma
• Cataracts
• Keratoconus
• Etc.
   

The good thing is pretty much all of those are extremely treatable and not a big deal especially when caught early. There's also the possibility that it's literally none of that shit, but if it's been more than a year, get your eyes checked anyway. You need to be able to see to aim at fascists.

Again, there's almost a 100% chance it's the headlights and just rain and lights being shit at night, but, as has happened to two of my friends, you can also maybe find out it's your eyes being weird shapes and they fix it real easy and it's literally the difference between not being able to drive at night and being fine but occasionally struggling.

Plus on the off chance it's Glaucoma, you really wanna catch it early.

Yeah that shit sucks. I drive a 90s Japanese economy car and it's pretty much guaranteed that this time of the year, I'm going to have some 6,000+ pound bro-dozer behind me flooding my entire cabin with light on the way home from work. They aren't even modified. That's just how annoyingly big cars have gotten.

modern LED headlights are extremely terrible for everybody else on the road and I hate them so much

Driving should be made as unpleasant, stressful, and inconvenient as possible.

I ran into a lot of those today. At a point I just kinda snapped and popped my brights on briefly while waiting for a left turn, just to spite the fucker with a death ray facing me. I wish the public transport here was better. I already should minimize driving at night, but then fuckers with LED lamps come out. In the middle of a rainstorm I'll find it a miracle I don't wind up crashing or accidentally hitting some pedestrian while momentarily blinded.

I fucking hate driving, it's so scary to me. Idk how people can enjoy it, it must be carbrain

i just KNOW banning LED headlights would turn into a stupid culture war too

I have this friend who definitely defines himself by his consumption. One of the things he has wasted money in the last few years was getting expensive and expensive to repair cars. His latest was a truck that broke the first week he got it. It has an incredibly loud exhaust, probably gets 15mpg hwy and he has a 45 mile commute.

I actually just think he’s a bit of a dumb guy.

Then he tells me he wants to swap the headlight bulbs for LEDs and I said to absolutely not do that because of how the housings would scatter the light into the eyes of other drivers. I don’t know if he ever did it but he was really adamant about installing once they arrived in the mail.

Sitting at a stop light in a more rural part of town with little street light coverage and one of these assholes pulls up behind you and your rear view mirrors become DBZ Solar Flares.

I been awake for 34 hours and the red lights make this look like a shadow monster with glowing eyes shining its flashlight at me

i have always hated driving but now every time i do it at night it feels like 1000% more of a gamble

Bicyclists have started getting LED lights and I fucking hate them. We're on a bike path in a big city, you're not more safe for spitting out 1000 lumens, actually the opposite, I am now blind and am going to crash into you, my fellow bicyclist, but at least the path that was illuminated by streetlights is also slightly brighter for having tye power of a cold sun aimed at it

I feel like I rarely notice anyone turning off their high beams anymore too.

Used to drive a car with a stun gun: grill and roof lightbars. Would do a quick half-second flip to tell transports and big pickups that their lights were too bright. Definitely made people running with high beams think twice.

Is this something to do with LEDs inherently, or are they just being set too bright and blue coloured?

Polarized glasses help to some degree (as long as they dont darken) However if your windscreen is like that you a) need new wiper blades and b) also need to clean the damn screen inside and out. Also check out the German lighting standards. They're prolly the best in the world. All headlights need to have reflector/diffuser fittings to limit glare.

kafka esq. is very good.