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Feb 9, 2019 7:05 PM
MayMyEnemiesLiveLong
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No? Okay, that's cool.
DidItForScience
It's insane when a lifted truck with an add-on light bar under it comes down the road in full blazing glory. Bonus points for rolling coal.
squishybaker
you're more likely to be blinded by misaligned headlights than super bright ones, there's a reason why they are adjustable.
YukonFox
As a long haul truck driver I approve of this message.
TheBlackKnightRider
okay, you really wanna know? how about you get out of the fucking city and visit the country roads. You'll realize why LED lights are nice.
copingcabana
If your lights are too bright, I give you my high beams. The fact that you're using your lowbeams is of no interest to me. Fix your shit.
Furicist
Literally furious at how dangerous they are, I cant see a single thing when someone drives at me with these on.
caleb20k
automotive headlamp engineer here... in U.S. max is 12,500 candella, regulated by FMVSS108. Oncoming driver should see < 1,000cd.
caleb20k
Actually 12500cd is the largest "minimum required" intesity, but its not aimed straight ahead.
Sm9yCg
Idiot. Blue = Xeon. LED headlights are white, not blue.
HammerParty13
Are we confusing HID and LED here? I feel like we are
jbcars4life
Also applied to following cars too. My cabin lights up like the 4th of July. If you can see ANY lights ahead of you, turn off your highbeams
PhilipW
It’s the high end market that use super bright lights. When your in a car and the other a SUV It’s blinding. It should be better regulated.
LowkeytheThiccsterGod
Here in Colorado where lots of cars are headed out of dark mountain roads, you see a lot of skull bleaching headlights, in every color.
moxiefoxxy
Having lived all over the U.S. Colorado roads and traffic are the most terrifying. Black ice, mountain roads, semi accidents, blizzards. . .
GCRust
Driving along, minding your own business, then suddenly a flash and Zelda Rubinstein is screaming at you to cross over.
jonrista
It's becoming a serious problem in Colorado. I have very sensitive night vision myself, and these LED lights are literally painful!
KittyAmin
Southern New Mexico. They physically hurt me.
ceeeffgee197724
Scrubhiker
So true. And larger the truck, more lights.
DoneMessedUp
Fucking light bars
Counterfit
When I see people driving with those light bars on, I want to rip them off and beat the driver with them
matticitt
That's BS. New cars don't blind you. Only idiots replacing halogens with LEDs or HIDs do. Doing so is illegal in Europe.
BigTittyJesus
I like to adjust my mirrors so it hits them in the face
Cranbananarama
What's great is when you get an oversized truck behind you at night and the lights line up with all of your mirrors. No escape from it.
Cutlass0516
If factory, they are fine. If aftermarket, odds are they are in improper housing and/or misaligned
51rebaS
Depends on the car. GMC pickup trucks burn with the force of a thousand suns from the factory, while a Ford F-whatever doesn't
Counterfit
Like 50% of new Wrangler owners
YutteHermsgervordenbrotborda
Nah. New BMWs, GMC trucks, Mercedes, Audis, and tons of others have harnessed the power of the sun right off the factory floor
Counterfit
I think Consumer Reports tested a bunch recently, and the vast majority of new cars have shit headlights
soggyscone
Don't blame the tech. Blame the people who don't set them to face downwards like regs state they should. It they're just on high beam.
DutchCraft2050
And drive on the legal side of the road.
Corrodias
And clean your fucking windshield, person in the picture! Jesus christ!
Gandalfsuglybrother
You just had to go that one step too far didn't you!
MyDadsIphone
G8tor84
I personally got tired of people never turning the high beams off. Thank those jack asses!
jalcantara88127001
Tell me about it. I live in seattle and at night on some of these roads these people even put on their led hi beams on. Deadly combo
NKato
Especially on US 2. Ugh.
rollotomosi
Agreed. Combine that with the rain on the windshield between swipes and you can’t see anything.
AirplaneNerd
Also, it'd be nice if SDOT / WSDOT would like,, repaint a stripe once in a while. The lines are invisible when the road is wet.
jalcantara88127001
Not to mention the condition of these roads. Or lack there of. And the Damn cobblestone roads!
bigeasy44
Actual LED headlights (like in new Acuras) almost never have any blue. What you’re seeing are people who put shitty HID bulbs in housings
bigeasy44
That aren’t meant for them.
kittyanya
Ahhh, that's why I keep seeing blue and having a heart attack thinking it's an officer behind me.
clandestine8
so the problem is the blue spectrum mostly. If you notice 90% of the street lights are reddish, but our eyes more sensitive to Blue light
mike13815
LED has nothing to do with it. The problem is that headlight alignment isn't enforced by police like it should be.
NotHAL
And proper housing/reflectors...
IPostedWhat
levzin
I don't drive at night because of these bright ass headlights. Doesn't help that I have blue eyes an an astigmatism in both.
2fligh2high
Are blue eyes more sensitive?
HaveGinWillBabble
Your pupils pin up when you see bright light. They open up when you're in the dark or on Gran Turismo drugs.
CarnivorousRabbit
As a blue eyed person, I'm finding that I have a problem with sharp light, but I have exceptional night vision compared to my friends.
levzin
You are blessed friend. I dont care to drive at night either way, but the lack of pigment makes it that much harder for me.
CarnivorousRabbit
It's more of a curse really, as most of my life plays out during the day anyways :(
levzin
Very much so. Lighter colored eyes lack pigment allowing more light into the iris and retina. Which is not helpful at night. It causes >
levzin
"Spots" and increases glare coupled with my other vision issues.<
nanoshock
The reflectors on low beam are designed to cast light below a certain angle as not to dazzle oncoming cars, however if a vehicle is 1/3
nanoshock
Taller than another, or worse if the other is a low slung sports car, they will be within that higher brightness cast area and it 2/3
nanoshock
Will seem as though it's in high beam to the lower vehicle. But usually it's because someone's driving around on high beam like an asshole.
homshabom
Where I live the cops have some of the brightest ones.
Atlas008
You mean The rear facing light bars you can see miles away, around a mountain, so when you're coming up on a statie that has someone 1/2
Atlas008
Pulled over on the highway, you cant see anything let alone a person or cop in the roadway because of the blinding lights
Counterfit
They seriously need a dimmer night mode
rnj454
I've almost been in so many accidents because of those ridiculously bright, flashing police lights. Can't see a damn thing around those.
tkochhar
LEDs aren't the problem. It's that people don't understand you have to also switch the housing when you switch from basic halogen lamps.
xoverthirtyx
So you’re saying it’s something to do w LED headlights
mike13815
Also you have to properly complete a headlight alignment.
AirplaneNerd
Problem isn't the housing. Problem is cheap LEDs that don't put the emitters where the halogen filament was, so the output pattern is wrong.
fearandloathinginaz
That's more accurate.
gnochi
LEDs and HIDs and Halogens all have mutually incompatible reflector patterns, since the light itself comes from differently-shaped sources.
AirplaneNerd
There are a handful of manufactures that pay attention to the size and placement of the LEDs to keep the pattern similar to a halogen bulb
gnochi
A good LED can be close enough for something like turn signals or brake lights that are throwing a diffuse beam anyway, but the direction
gnochi
of the halogen-optimized reflection will be wrong and blinding. If you’re putting in LEDs or HIDs, they need to go in a proper projector.
pumpkinblumkin
Thank you, someone who actually understands
Toggles
My lowbeams are weaker LED. My hi beams are the "fuck your shit" bright LEDs. It's all about proper adjustment
ThomasThundersword
this. it's like trucks with the mega light bar on top. that shit ain't for city or highway driving with others around, it's great for>
ThomasThundersword
off-road. empty highway. your own land. but you don't default to the fuck you and every car for 2 miles in front of me lights.
rickeyspanish
I rented a Nissan Armada while my escalade was in the shop. It lit up the road like it was daylight. I was scared to try the bright lights
PyroFox35
My lows happen to be borderline too bright LEDs but my highs are set the brightest, fuck-everything-in-front-of-me 90W Xenon HIDs.
TheMajesticBongacorn
Why do you need "borderline too bright" though, dp you have the night vision of an 80 year old woman?
PyroFox35
They were $70 and I didn’t feel they were too bright until well after the return window ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IBrewLiquidGold
Driving any road with trees on either side would make this an investment. You never know what might be creeping up to jump out.
OtterlyMagnificent
That's fair. And you never know if you'll have to use your headlights to set up camp by.
WhoaaBlackBetty
Ditto. I spent good many on my led's (opt 7). Most people buy eBay crap that isn't the same. And I have blacked out head lamps. That helps
Toggles
Mine are Hikari bulbs. First foray into LED, so hopefully they're reliable
copingcabana
If your lights are too bright, I give you my high beams. The fact that you're using your lowbeams is of no interest to me. Fix your shit.
Toggles
Nothing's wrong with my LED lows. If anything, they're aimed too low. Flash me, I'll flash back lol
Crooki
Cant fix what aint broke!
ISellUsernames
Its not broken, its mis-aligned. If you’re headlights are shinging into peoples eyes, expect to die in a high speed front to front crash.
lronMaiden
Which is why 1. Lights are checked yearly 2. Have to be road use approved and 3. On road use cannot exceed certain power rating. EU.
ISellUsernames
Yes. But this is america, and standardization is “the government taking over”
Toggles
I'm salty I missed the cutoff year for having to smog my truck. My smog pump is disabled and the motor still runs 2x cleaner than required.
OtterlyMagnificent
Not only that, but if it isn't something your car's computer can test for, emissions doesn't care. And that means headlights aren't their 1/
OtterlyMagnificent
business, no matter if it turns night into day. 2/2
Counterfit
One guy ran for governor of my state last year on "Getting rid of car inspections". Most states don't have any inspections.
cannonesshannah
All the adjustment in the world doesn't change the amount of lumens involved.
drahgosempire
Head lights are supposed to be turned a few degrees toward the ground by law. People can change the angle though. Plus HighBeams
audioknob
I've got mine all the way down to not piss people off with my daylight bulbs
SteevyT
We can't in my wife's car, it automatically aims them based on some sensor in the rear of the car.
freshlancer
true, but the sun pointed at the road isn't harmful, but a flashlight right in your eyes is deadly. There's adjustments in the housing too.
KPuff
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife... the killer flashlights are coming!!! (I don't disagree, I got a crazy visual of it, that's all?)
KeepTheEarthBelowMyFeet
Ok snapchat
Armouredfalcon
it doesnt matter if its pointed at the road, if you're in an SUV it'll still be shining right into my eyes in my small, low car.
slutzinger
Then stop being weak and get a bigger car
Armouredfalcon
thats a stupid suggestion and you know it. not everyone can afford or even wants a giant ass SUV or truck.
PyroFox35
I wish I could adjust my lights lower. Subaru seriously removed lamp adjusters in my 2015 forester
Counterfit
I'm not sure my 06 Impreza even has adjusters
MisterLemons
I do battle with idiots. If someone is coming at me with their highs on, they get my 4000lm (each) high beams and a 16,000lm light bar.
JasonAndHisARRGOhNutz
And then you both both can’t see and wreck..
MisterLemons
Toggles
That's pretty slick. Mine are on a jeep, I'll get around to fitting Fogs on it. I'd love to get projector housings for it
Counterfit
Wait, someone with a light bar that doesn't normally use it on the road? Unicorns exist!
MisterLemons
Yeah, last actual use I had for it was setting up my campsite in the dark. Damn, never seen an Accord light up a mountain side.
AikoMizushima
Because stupidly they are rated by input wattage instead of output lumens. The law needs to catch up to technology.
PhilipW
Thanks for that answer. I have wondered how they get away with it for years.
MrButtrworth
soon all cars will have auto high beams. no blinding oncoming traffic and reduced collisions. tech needs to catch up with tech
Vertron
As usual, stupid laws...
bcrunk
Also, iirc, a lot of the after market ones are installed incorrectly so they end up shining in people’s windshield instead of just the road.
fearandloathinginaz
A lot? I bet all of them.
aaronsheffield
This. Very few people understand that it is impossible to put an LED bulb in a housing designed for a regular bulb and have it work right.
Z42Flamewave
AikoMizushima
It makes me wonder how many vehicular fires occur because of this..
KirchoffsVoltageLaw
Have xenons on my car as standard. I don't blind anyone
Luthasox
Probably. The only place you're definitely always not is in another car.
WorkerLurker
I mean, they can turn the car on and go check from another cat
WorkerLurker
Car*
Leonon
thisaccountisnotabot
a lot of things need to catch up to technology lol
jalcantara88127001
Yeah this applies to all technology.
TheBlackKnightRider
yeah like the 2nd ammendment, Allow citizen to use muskets only, cos tech back in 1776 didnt have a GAU8-Avenger. just kiddin! Just kiddin!
aCartographer
Especially sex toy industry! *adjusts underwear
KobeBurger
"The law needs to catch up" applies to just about everything
IAmTheBadW01f
Except me.
jalcantara88127001
They'll never catch you
IAmTheBadW01f
As is best for all involved
aaronsheffield
Actually, Federal headlight regulations specify maximum luminous flux within several areas of the headlight beam pattern. See FMVSS 108
Lobuttomize
Which of the 168 pages
SteevyT
Table XVIII
Vissari
168 pages of gov regulation regarding headlights?! Count me right the fuck in!
lronMaiden
In eu light have ratings on the certification and on road use combined rating of the lights is not allowed to exceed "100"
dentedshed
100 what though? Lumens? Watts? Volts? Candles?
lronMaiden
Who knows. It's just number next to cert. If combined number on lights is over 100 it's too much
Treblaine
WHAT!?!? Fucking idiotic. Did they never consider there might be something more efficient than just heating up a bit of wire to make light?
ScientistFromSouth
I mean to be fair, LEDs are a prettyvmonumental achievement when you think of it. The principle behind it was discovered in like 1907
ScientistFromSouth
And it wasn't until the 1960s when the first highly expensive but commercially available LEDs came out. Further, they didn't even have
ScientistFromSouth
White LEDs until 1993 or Blue LEDs until even later. The 2014 Nobel Physics Prize went to their inventor. Led lighting requires a fundamenta
ScientistFromSouth
Understanding of the quantum properties of electrons in exotic alloys, and unlike conventional lights, they are vastly more efficient