Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bigger vehicles with high hoods too.

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• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whoever invented LED bulbs for cars needs to be blacklisted from the auto industry

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are plenty of cars with stock LED headlights and proper cutoffs, so they’re less blinding than traditional headlights

    It’s aftermarket “illegal” LEDs, LEDs that are misaligned or started at a bad height, and way too many drivers who never turn off their high beams. Yet another safety rule we only pay lip service to, resulting in unnecessary deaths

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I swear some people really must not know you can toggle between normal headlights and high beams.

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Some people also don’t know you can set your headlights to “auto” so you aren’t driving at twilight with your headlights off.

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      • goosehorse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I thought the same and then got a recent-ish car that had an “automatic” setting to dim or engage the high beams. It’s terrible. Taking tight corners on a dark rural road, they dim because the sensor detects the car’s own headlight reflection off of the trees, defeating the purpose.

        So, I think a bunch of dipshit city folk leave the high beams on (in the city where they aren’t fucking necessary) and let the “automatic” setting handle it, poorly.

        I learned how to drive in a rural area where using the brights is normal when you get out of town, with the caveat that you have to pay attention and switch back when creating a hill or coming around a corner.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This may be another case of needing technology to rescue people who are just that dumb.

        • Auto-high beams have been getting better over the years to the point that humans can no longer claim to be more responsive. They just work. Every time. And never forget
        • my car has active matrix headlights and it’s freaky to drive at night with the high beams on and watch a dark spot follow surrounding cars

        In ten years we’ll all forget how to toggle off high beams, as it will just work most of the time

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        doesn’t matter when lowbeams are just as bright as high beams and aimed at somebody’s face, though

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      incorrect. cutoff just means it isn’t blinding on flat level ground. which roads and streets are very much not

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ll take being briefly blinded as a car hits a pothole over ten terrifying seconds of zero visibility as a monstrous vehicle careens toward me and I have no idea where the street is or what’s in it

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They need to make them frosted so they disperse the light and they need to design headlights that are focused downwards so they can’t hit your eyes directly.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those are aftermarket lights, or people with lifted pickups. Lights are designed to work at a set distance off the road, when people lift the truck, everything is now hi beams.

    The problem is not the industry, it’s a lack of safety laws and enforcement. North America does not safety inspect vehicles.

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol it’s not just aftermarket or modified stuff dude, look at any new stock Subaru/Toyota/Mazda. blinding

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      • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        the regulations on intensity never presumed we’d use such small arrays to produce that intesity. in the cabin, the lights projected onto the road don’t seem that different from 20 years ago. but from the other way it’s dazzling

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The law is a max of 2400/3600 lumens.

        Aftermarket LEDs are all illegal, but police do not enforce. Again, no safety inspections.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is insane how bright they are now and due to LEDs appear as point sources. Even if they are adjusted correctly for flat roads as soon as you get to any ripples in the road now they are aimed right into your eyes. For some reason insurers and the gov don’t recognize this problem.

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• hateisreality@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you have powered mirrors, reflect the light back into their eyes…works great

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    doesn’t work well in my experience. now I typically just leave my mirrors all the way out and up when driving at night, so the headlights never hit my eyes from them

    I can see everything I need to from the rearview and turning my head. it’s not like you can see anything using the side mirrors at night when somebody with LED headlights is behind you anyways, all you see is a giant flare and you can’t even tell if it’s in your lane or the next lane or how close it is

    LED headlights are literally making the roads less safe by decreasing visibility and awareness

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• courval@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think this is the biggest issue here…

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