Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?
ThePunnyMan@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I’m curious if the problem is how bright LED lights are or something else. I recently bought a car and it has an automatic brights option. Basically, it switched on the brights automatically for some situations. I turned it off because I felt it was turning them on when I didn’t need them.
I think it’s the cutoff. My Bronco LEDs don’t seem to bother people.
My stock Toyota 86 LEDs had an extreme cutoff between the area it lit up and where it didn’t. Even though it was lower to the ground and had a shorter throw, people would flash me all the time.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My auto bright feature barely ever turns them on for more than a couple of seconds if they hit a reflective sign. So on empty roads with signage I have to turn them on manually if I don’t want them to flick to dim constantly.
Seems like tech that should be a lot more reliable by now, and we should be having opposite experiences.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 6 days ago
It depends entirely on how well the software handles the sensors and its basically completely different on every car afaik
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah, but every manufacturer should have decades of practice by now. Whatever approach they took should be reliable by now.
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Any company whose primary focus is not software always has shit for software.
I don’t know if it’s because manufacturing companies don’t really care about it, or they feel they should cut corners everywhere they can, or what, but it seems to be a universal phenomenon.