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 2 days agoThere 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
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 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
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
see the thing is we don’t need to put up with either of those situations, neither is acceptable
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I swear some people really must not know you can toggle between normal headlights and high beams.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 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.
goosehorse@lemmy.world 2 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This may be another case of needing technology to rescue people who are just that dumb.
In ten years we’ll all forget how to toggle off high beams, as it will just work most of the time
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
auto high beams do not work every time.
I am routinely blinded by them when people drive through my neighborhood at night and I’m walking my dog, or when I’m biking to the store. and this is in a neighborhood with street lights where high beams are completely and utterly not required in the first place at 40 km/h.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every attempt to make something idiot creates a bigger idiot
While I totally see the point this is already “solved” in that they shouldn’t have high beams on in the first place.
Pedestrians and cyclists are tough because drivers don’t think to toggle their high beams, even If they see pedestrians and auto-high beams aren’t any better. We’re out of luck
In my neighborhood we have very narrow streets and where there are sidewalks not pavement right next to the street. I never thought I’d appreciate the small amount of separation a standard sidewalk give but it actually does make a difference in how blinded your u are by traffic. But the bottom Line is similar to yours: this is a high density neighborhood with streetlights where no one should use high beams to begin with. Realistically there are several Poorly placed houses whose owners are probably even more frustrated
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yah, I drove a rental with these for the first time and didn’t like it. It left the high beams on far longer than I would’ve manually and when I tried to manually switch them off it would turn them back on without me knowing.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
doesn’t matter when lowbeams are just as bright as high beams and aimed at somebody’s face, though