Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights

fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• callcc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My problem is that I drive a low car (Ford fiesta) and most other cars are taller, this makes them way more blinding.

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Our problem is not that we drive small cars (I drive a Focus). It’s that newer vehicles are enormous, usually for no reason.

    Nearly every time I get on the highway, I’m tailgated by someone in some newer massive SUV where the headlights are at the same height as my rear view mirror. I don’t understand why those vehicles are allowed to operate on the same roads as me. They aren’t safe. By default, stock, out of the factory, they blind the other drivers in reasonable cars. I can’t imagine what getting into a wreck with one would do to my car (and me in it).

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, there is a reason, and it’s the fucking NHTSA. Those absolute fuckrockets mandate proportionally stricter emissions standards on smaller cars than larger cars. They base it on the area of the rectangle formed by where the tires touch the pavement.

      If your car can’t quite pass emission standards, just make it a little wider, a little longer, and you get a looser standard.

      Repeat the process for a few model years, and now 2025 subcompacts are larger than 1995 sedans.

      Fuck the NHTSA with a rusty bayonet.

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  • dufkm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same, and they might even have properly adjusted headlights, but as soon as they tilt up (e.g. due to a speed bump), the flashing lights make it look like they are sending me a light signal. Usually takes a few seconds until I realise they just hit a speed bump.

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• xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dude YES. 20 years ago driving in the country you see some high beams in the distance and people would go back to low beams as they get around a corner or crest a hill when they see other cars.

  My commute is through a lot of schools and parks and pedestrian crossings and it’s somewhat poorly lit, so everyone has high beams on regardless of traffic but as a result I can’t see shit. If there’s oncoming cars stopped and a pedestrian tries to squeak through I literally wouldn’t be able to tell.

  It’s gotten so bad, either people have their brights on all the time or they’re not adjusted properly. In either case headlights DONT HAVE TO BE SO BRIGHT.

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• 2fm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve noticed quite the influx of highbeams in recent years. I simply can’t understand why though. Stupids wanting to see better, by making other’s vision worse? Western Canada here, and I thought it was just me taking notice. Fuckn why??

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  • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean I guess I’m stupid but I straight up can’t see if there’s oncoming traffic and my brights aren’t on. Doesn’t go for every oncoming car (if its lights are reasonable then I have no issues) but the vast majority of cars have newer, hilariously bright headlights that shine in a way where my normal lights simply don’t seem to cut it.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  High beams and fog lights on a beautiful sunlit day.

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• BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Meanwhile I’m out here driving a 20 year old car with correspondingly dim headlights and need to have the highbeams on just to be able to see anything when there’s oncoming traffic. My normal headlights are fine when there’s nothing coming the other way, but that’s not really how that’s supposed to work lol. Kinda defeats the purpose of ever turning the brights off! I swear any newer car’s normal lights are brighter than my brights

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  • fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t see how running high beams held you see when there is oncoming cars with brighter lights. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that older cars are smaller and lower?

    I am not disputing new cars have higher brightness on regular lights, that absolutely is true. Though running high beams throws light both forward and up toward the oncoming drivers eyes.

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    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unfortunately I don’t know the physics, maybe something to do with how lights scatters through the windshield? Idk, all I can tell you is my repeated experience: turning the brights on definitely helps with seeing through oncoming traffic. But you are right, my older car is both smaller and lower, so I’m sure even the modern cars with lights aimed downward are more likely to shine directly at me

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    need to have the highbeams on just to be able to see anything when there’s oncoming traffic.

    Let me get this straight: you are turning on your brights when there is oncoming traffic?

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• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  100% this; I’ll see the same make a model go by, with LED lights, and it will be fine one time the next time I’ll be long 🔥 MY EYES 🔥.

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