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

• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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