>every single oncoming car at night in 2026when did it get this bad?
>>28900813i'm thinking about buying a beam expanded for my 5W handheld laser.
>>28900813Don't look at it.
>>28900813I wanna say in the last 3 years it has ramped up pretty bad no that eye rape technology has trickled down from luxury cars to pleb tier cars
>>28900815>Don't look at it.
the last 10 years but the last 5 specificallyLED headlights need to be banned as a safety hazard and anti-human.the ban should be retroactive, meaning every fucking moron that bought one of these nucar shitboxes needs to prove they retrofitted properly aimed halogen headlights before they can renew their registration.pic very related.
>>28900818Do you go outside and stare at the sun too?
How did this shit get passed? How is it only getting worse?
boomers are the only ones who can afford new cars and their eyesight is shit
>>28900833there was nothing passed, headlight regulations haven't been changed since 1986 and they were designed for halogen bulbs. fitting LED into the same standard allows for literally unlimited brightness.>Chris Trechter, a lighting-focused engineer who used to work for Magna International, the largest automobile parts manufacturer in North America, told me the company would adhere to 108 in making headlights for clients like General Motors but that the rule is “archaic.” “It does not account for LEDs,” he said, “and there are giant loopholes that allow you to throw basically unlimited light as long as you meet all the other aspects of 108.”
>>28900832I would if the sun was a few feet from my face taking up my entire field of vision.>just drive your car with your eyes closed brokys
>>28900851if oncoming car headlights are a few feet from your face and taking up your entire field of vision then you have much bigger problems to worry about.
Regulating emission spectrum peakiness, color temp, and flicker would do way more to reduce eye strain and nighttime accidents than letting laser beams adjust where the light pattern is pointed>>28900832NTA but people watch the sunset all the time. Just because you're indoors 100% of your life doesn't mean people don't look at the sun
>>28900824>regulate every little inch of cars for safety and environmentalism retardation until every car is fucking garbage>don't regulate blinding headlightsRegulators should all be shot, hanged, boiled alive, thrown in acid, reported to the IRS, roundhouse kicked into wood chippers, curb stomped, beheaded and skinned alive.
>>28900892headlights are tightly regulated and brightness capped
>>28900909quote the regulation
>>28900813I don't see the problem here. I'm perfectly comfortable looking at that here in my downstairs media room.
>>28900911>DO MY HOMEWORK Look up ECE R***
My car has 25w xenons and I can't see shit at night. Bring on the LEDs
>>28900953why did you buy the cucked version
>>28900909>and brightness cappedit literally isn't
>>28900909nope. the only requirement is it can't create glare in certain directions, which they just aim it so it doesn't go in those directions. headlights have no limit on brightness at all, which is why headlights are more than twice as bright now as they were 10 years ago. see >>28900824 and >>28900847
>>28901071false>see graph without sourcefantastic mr expert>>28900847this is peak horeshit by the way, the most recent ece document i got my hands on was from the mid 2010s, the regulations from a global point of view get constantly adjusted. mutts may get a dumped down version, like is matrix masking still ilegal in the land of the free?
>>28901087ok then link these regulations you fucking retard. you can't>b-b-but muh ECE documentabsolutely full of shit
>>28901094I will go toe to toe with you on bird law.
>>28901071>>28900911>>2890096649 CFR 571 table XIX-aLooks like maximum brightness is 20,000 candelas at a point 0.5 degree down and 1.5 degree out from center.
>>28901941https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-571/subpart-B
>>28901941The problem is that modern beam forming is so aggressive you can read close to zero in the region they measure from and still have essentially unlimited brightness elsewhere.
>>28901955softer, dimmer light is the solution
>>28900813>tfw installed 60w per lamp led projectors>tfw flashing the high beam is like a flashbang
>>28900962Didn't know it would make a big difference. Everything is led now so it doesn't really matter they're all bright.
50% of the problem is subhuman browns and africans who don't understand how high beams work, just "me see brighter" the other half is piss poor car design
>>28900813i bet you most of these complaints would go away if LEDs were selective yellow. it's bright, but your eyes cope with yellow light far better than the bullshit blue-white that is every LED now>>28900860clearly you've never had the misfortune of someone turning on their lights and just sitting in their car in front of you in a parking lot
>>28903179>clearly you've never had the misfortune of someone turning on their lights and just sitting in their car in front of you in a parking lotOh god, everybody takes forever to leave now. They sit there idling 10-30 minutes while they check messages, take selfies, post to tiktok, etc.
>>28903203i wouldn't mind so much if they just turned off their fucking lights
>>28903221>tee hee, turn off my what?
>>28900813Every automotive malady you can think of traces its impetus to the purchasing habits of boomers, women, and browns
>not sure if someone is flashing their highbeams at me to warn me that cops are ahead or if they hit a tiny bump in the road causing the LED to blind me with the force of a thousand sunsI hate this timeline
>>28903275>Crawling in very slow traffic, someone indicating to turn across but waiting forever to turn>Flash (halogen) highbeams at them to take the gap I've left50/50 these days they just sit there gormless and on autopilot, their existence firmly behind their own eyelids, or they take the gap and wave thanks.
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-dot-ban-blinding-headlights-and-save-lives?source_location=psf_petitionshttps://www.softlights.org/
>>28903255It's like helping crippled or diseased wild animals. Nature, humanity notwithstanding, has been shaped by the process of natural selection. The second you begin catering to the lowest common denominator and its ilk, is when the species as a whole begins to deteriorate.People don't look at their side mirrors. What do we do? We put little blinky lights in them to let people know there is someone in their 'blind' spot. If they don't use their side mirrors in the first fucking place, what's the goddamn point?On a daily basis, without fail, I approach these vehicles with the yellow 'blind indicator' lit and they begin moving into my lane before using an indicator anyway. People become displacement, further relying on nanny controls to do what their attentiveness should have already covered.Boils my fucking blood.
>>28903493That is such garbage design. It looks like an indicator (for other drivers), but it isn't. It flashes, it's orange, looks like an indicator. Genuinely and impressively dogshit design and execution. I can not believe how fucking bad car design and production has gotten lately. Some of these lights simply stay on (toggle), whereas I've seen others that flicker rapidly. I don't know if this is intentional or buggy, but I specifically seen said flashing one 4 days ago on a freeway and it was retarded and very distracting.
>>28901955I love getting flashbanged because the oncoming car hit a very small pothole
>>28903493>>28903497i don't think i've ever seen any blind spot indicator flash when i get near a car that has one, it's just a red or orange light that stays on and it's on the mirror glass itself (lol i wonder how much replacements cost). maybe i just haven't seen one yet.but you really don't need those because even cars with flat mirrors can almost completely eliminate blind spots, it's just that nobody knows how to adjust them properly, and it shows the absolute state of car design when the manufacturers aren't pushing back and saying "no, people need to learn how to adjust their mirrors we should not cater to idiots"
>>28900813>got windshield tinted with 50%not my problem
>>28900833Big optometry wants you in their office sooner than later. I unironically believe this.
Blame consumers who need hibeam tier lows because they are blind and believe every blade of grass needs to be litup for 500m in front of them.
>>28903713start a shill campaign where e-celebs on instagram and tiktok etc. suddenly make selective yellow lamps the "in" thing to get. before you know it everyone and their grandma (and especially their grandma) will want them for their own cars and it'll usher in an age of selective yellow LEDs
>>28900813>when did it get this bad?When retarded zoomers started driving.Before people would squint, adjust the mirror, cuss the other driver and go about their day.You fucking pussies bitching about bright lights like it's such a huge problem just shows that you can't deal with trivial shit without making it everybody else's problem. >pic very related, it's you assholes acting like bright lights are the end of the world
>>28901955>lets move the goalpost>The problem is reeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>28900813My Subaru has eyesight cameras that make driving so much safer for me and others with the same brand. It wouldn't work in night without these lights. Why is it bad to get advanced safety measures to protect ourselves when driving?
>>28903762it's all trivial until you crash into a fallen tree branch because the fuckwit in the other lane kept his brights on
>>28903762>zoomers are the only ones with eyes!>LEDS existed before their time!kys
>>28903791>have low visibility>proceed to drive blind at high speed>crash into static objectHow do you tards even pass the driver exam?On a road with oncoming traffic your visual range without being a nigger is low beam range, just 50 to 70 meter. That means when driving at 60mph your braking distance with cat like reflexes is well above your vision range, 100m.
>>28903787kek, are you crippled or something? my body has eyesite eyeballs that make driving perfectly safe for me.
>>28903798wish i saved that dash cam clip of a guy driving down a country road at night and the oncoming vehicle had his brights on so he only saw the tree branch at the last moment because of the glare.but hey it's a trivial problem, you should be able to deal with the tards :)
>>28903762The Boomer cries out in pain as he drives his nu-RAM at 70 in a 35 and blinds everyone with his headlights
