>makes driving at night stressful and dangerousnothing personnel kid
>>28728600i can see and that is all that mattersfuck your eyes
It's going to take someone to die before things go back to normal
>>28728681when you get a head-on collision with the other guy because they couldn't see and get juiced out the car like a tube of toothpaste, that will also matter
>>28728600literally not an issue if you have projector light housing and your lights are properly leveled
>>28728693i bet people die from this bullshit every day, and just like fentanyl deaths, gets swept under the rug
I just don't understand it. It's totally unnecessary.There's no reason for low beams to be this bright. I live off a rural county road with no painted lines and some of these nu-cars make it borderline impossible to see as they pass.
>>28728717I am completely unbothered by them, even the dudes who drive with their lightbars on.Sad part of public policy like road rules is you have to tailor it to lowest common denominator.>low beamsBecause I can't run highs at all, ever, roads are too busy even at 3am in my rural shithole. I wouldn't mind a low mode for illuminated roads, there really is no point there.I added LED fogs, just to get wider pattern, for deer and junkies. Something like this withe the vertical stripe lens that makes them very wide but
>>28729042>I can't run high beams because it would blind oncoming traffic, so I turned my low beams into high beams
>>28728600I get blinded by factory LED's way the fuck more often than LED's in normal housings.
>>28728698sorry but no, i'm not the one getting juiced. i have ensured my own safety.
Brake lights are just as bad.
>>28729196just needs another 40k in arb accessories
>>28729219i forget just how bright tail lights are until i come across some 80s or 90s car and their lights are extremely comfy to look at
>>28728706>literally not an issueSpoiled Brat
>>28729196does your wife's boyfriend know you got his pavement princess wrecked? you might have even bigger issues then
>>28728600compounding this is the sheer amount of retards who sit in their cars on their phones for like 30 minutes any time they get in, with the engine running and their headlights on. they're completely oblivious to the fact they're blinding anyone who passes in the beam. so many times I'll be driving through a parking lot or something and from all the way across the street I'll see some moron just sitting in their car blasting their fucking LEDs.fucking idiots can't just get in their car and go nowadays they just have to scrooooll for a while first.
>>28729042I got 2 amber 6" bars like that. I run them pretty much all the time because (1) my truck is old and has next to no beam pattern, (2) they're not bright blue and aimed upward, and (3), everyone else's nucars blind me, so whatever. The camera made the pic brighter than it really is but the difference when driving is enough that I'm ok with being a bit of a dick.
>>28728713I wouldn't be surprised if headlight laws are being deliberately unenforced to promote unsafe driving and so-called walkable citiesAll of this started during C19
fyi halogen lights are superior in snow because heat melts any ice buildup. leds get frozen>my car has headlight wipersshit is useless if it's frozen. more shit to break too
>>28729219hey man I can't help how the LED array in my 15 year old car came from the factoryI've been thinking about taking the housings apart and tinting the inside just so it isn't so fuckawful bright for people behind me, but I suck at taking things apart without breaking them and am even worse at putting them back together and having a good seal.
>>28731518>I've been thinking about taking the housings apart and tinting the insidewouldnt it be easier to tint the outside? or add a resistor to the power feed that dims them slightly?
>>28731521>resistorI generally don't like the prospect of anything that messes with the regulated volt/amp supply to something as sensitive as LEDs and assc. electronics. It works, yes, and maybe the 50 year life span is only reduced by 5 years, but that tickles my tisms.>outsideBruh. Weather, temp differentials, etc. I guess I could look into plastic dyes?
>>28731523>I guess I could look into plastic dyes?
I'm always watching the LED cutoff on my 2019 cuckover (need something boring to drive in the winter) and it's always above people's mirrors and shit, if the road is anything but flat. The high beams are worthless too because they only are "high" straight ahead so if you're going around an uphill curve you can't see shit.Unironically, I can see way better in my old landbarge with 4x H4 bulbs (in sealed beam housings) but that one melted the headlight fuse before I parked it for winter so I guess I just can't have nice things.
>>28731425Xenon is best of both worlds.
At least 6/10 people who drop LEDs into their halogen housings are retarded faggots who are buying cheap amazon specials.You can tell because the glare is OUTRAGEOUS.Don't be that nigger. Don't fall for the threads. Don't buy the AXIHUWOTWID "brand" leds.And please for THE LOVE OF GOD take the >minimal< amount of time to park your car running and walk 100 meter/yard away and actually check your headlights if you do.
>>28729232People saw the crazy light output/wattage of LEDs and immediately decided we should have lights that draw the same amount of power as incandescent bulbs but are as bright as the sun instead of candlelight that takes so little power it's basically free
>>28731795the funny thing is i retrofitted led brake bulbs on my 96 camry, and they were marginally dimmer to look at, at night. the original incandescents actually hurt your eyes to look straight at when it was dark.
I have a powerful laser on me when I drive because of this bullshit. If someone is blinding me too hard, I'll shine the laser in their face and make them blinder than I am.
They really need to make these uber bright headlights illegal. As a sedan owner who is low to the ground, it is a legitimate safety hazard.
The only LEDs I've put into a car are switchback ones for my turn signals since my car keeps the amber lights on when you have headlights on and it looks retarded. I keep all my other cars on halogens.The worst part is not only do all these trucks and cuckovers have headlights aimed too high and super bright LEDs, they also have auto high beams to kill you extra.
My car has automatic highbeams and they activate on and off constantly and scare pedestrians and blind oncoming drivers constantly when going around turns or up hills. When driving home they turn on and off shooting highbeams thru peoples windowsI can turn the feature off but I don't
>>28728706This, also that the lights are properly rotated in the housings so the chips are facing left and right
>>28733127Based. I have a ‘back at ya” flashlight I shine in their eyes.
>>28728600fight fire with fire.
>>28733578https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmEpx76KXcE
This wouldn't be an issue if the US actually cared about car regulations and updated the standards on how high headlights can be places, the angle they can face based on that height, and technologies for LEDs like AFLS. Things that EU has already had done and in place for years now.
>>28729219I literally have to either look away or cover my eyes when some nucar faggot shit is stopped in front of me. Those stop light LEDs are much worse than the ones in the headlights.
>>28733695the worst is the ones with the blinking third brake light
>>28728600Poo eyes are waging war on people with blue eyes. I used to love driving at night and have literally never used my high beams except to flash some retard with their high beams on.
>>28728600i hate night driving now and it used to be something i found very relaxing.
>>28728693I literally almost ran someone over yesterday because some retard was driving with aftermarket LED bulbs and they straight up blinded me.
>>28734649some fag retard who lives near me drives a lifted white diesel truck with a light bar and aftermarket LED headlights that are like 6000K, so bright and white they blind you even when he's 100 yards away and driving perpendicular to your field of vision. i hope a cop skullfucks him to death.
>>28728600>Sun coming at you>Flash them>They flash their highbeams at youWhat the fuck do these retard thinks this prove? "Oh you thought my highbeams were on? nope, my lows are just fucked."
>>28731732xenons burn out quickly.
up
Have you people tried replacing your windshields or just not staring directly into the fucking lights? When you see a guy welding do you go up to him and stare into the light? Do you stare into the sun for hours on end?
>>28733700>just ricelet things
>>28733700>>28739662its typically not ricers installing the blinking brake lights, its dealers putting in a $5 aliexpress part and then adding $300-$500 to the price
I'm going to start shooting at every vehicle that blinds me with their LED headlights. I am the only one on the road that should be allowed to use LEDs, for my vehicle is superior to everyone else's.
>>28739661>just close your eyes while navigating a busy road at 65mph bro. that's much safer than having reasonable headlight brightness requirements.
>>28739668lmao, imagine being an npc and not immediately demanding they tear this bullshit out and take this scam off the bill.
>>28739677>gets shot
>>28739905You don't drive with your eyes, you drive with your heart. Don't close your eyes just squint or look not directly at them. Also try not driving some impractical low to the ground clown car.
>>28733588Infrared is better, because nobody will see the beam without specialized equipment.
>>28741445or how about we just have reasonable standards for safe headlight brightness?
>>28741821i can only imagine how things would've been if the lawmakers dictated headlight power output based on total light emitted rather than wattage
>>28736120My factory xenons have been working for 16 years.
>>28742288Logical?
Needs to be more like this.
>>28728713>fentanylI thought this was a meme. Keep getting told to stay away from drugs because they put fent innit but kids are still doing drugs and I never here any stories of death by OD.
>>28743732>they're sweeping it under the rug>well I've never heard of it happening!Intredasting
>>28743655responsible, practical
>>28743732>I never here any stories of death by OD.fucking kek, it's one of the leading causes of death in young people now. people OD so much there is a narcan station in every school and fucking library. are you living under a rock?
>>28733578what model? I want to carry one as a pedestrian
>>28734649Yeah, me too And I almost front ended a car driving over the double yellows because it only had one headlight and I thought it was a motorcycle, managed to swerve at the last second
