Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Not just cars, goofy cyclists too. Broad daylight, high noon on a cloudless summer day, somehow, cyclists need piercingly blinding bright little lamps on their handlebars. Or their helmets. Or their armbands. Or all at the same time. Cheap electronics from China make this possible. Backpacks. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing the other day, a guy dressed like a manga-ninja, all black with a face mask, and a backpack covered in LEDs.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
Honestly, riding a bike in the middle of traffic is so dangerous that I understand the desire for being visible
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If you need extra lights in summer, in daytime, on a cloudless noon, you shouldn’t be riding a vehicle. What gives you the right to blind and annoy oncoming pedestrians and drivers because of your misguided paranoia?
And typically, from my observations, the people crowing about biking being dangerous and they need safety … wear earbuds. Sure, seal off one of your senses and then complain about safety. We biked for decades without piercingly blinding Cree LEDs taped on our bodies 24/7.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah but a single blinding light doesn’t make for good visibility. They’re supposed be much more visible with multiple lights