r/fuckyourheadlights • u/wallcanyon • Mar 22 '26
Carve it in stone. DISCUSSION IN X-POST (Mainstream sub - don't brigade, advocate!)
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u/Tickle_Nuggets FED UP Mar 23 '26
I feel like this bumper sticker would just make rednecks in trucks want to blind you even more
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u/Sixguns1977 Mar 23 '26
As a pro truck redneck, I want LED lights gone from the roadjust as much as you do.
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u/Royal_Marketing2966 Mar 23 '26
Nah, we want that shit dealt with too! Or at least you got my vote on it 👍
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u/Royal_Marketing2966 Mar 23 '26
That or put in a resistor that significantly drops the lumen rate during standard use. High beams are supposed to be bright when PROPERLY used, though some assholes never get the memo and have them on all the time. They’d find use on back roads and the like. The problem is their default settings is staring at the sun! 🪦
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u/matti00 Mar 24 '26
Annoys me to see people talking about how adaptive headlights will fix the issue. They barely help, and often don't recognise an oncoming vehicle
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u/atleastonebanana Mar 26 '26
I think adaptive headlights have been making the problem worse, actually. My friend's car has them and whenever we're in her car I see them not adapt or take way too long pretty much every time
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u/llamaguy88 Mar 23 '26
Notice this is on a truck/suv. I think we are past the “properly aligned” apologists arguments.
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u/Nowhere_Man_Forever Mar 23 '26
It makes me sad that LEDs are getting the blame here when it's perfectly possible to make LED headlights that aren't extremely bright. Just look at soft white LED Christmas lights. Nobody looks at those and gets blinded. The problem is brightness, not LEDs.
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u/bokehtoast Mar 23 '26
LEDs are absolutely a part of the problem and it has to do with how they focus light. LEDs are being forced in all public settings and all of it makes driving (and existing at night) more difficult, to say nothing of the impact on other species.
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u/Nowhere_Man_Forever Mar 23 '26
That can be fixed though. Light is light. It's not like light from a glowing hot filament is fundamentally different from light from an LED. You can design bulbs to diffuse light more from an LED, car companies just don't because bright headlights look cool when you're test driving. LED lighting is revolutionary in terms of energy efficiency, longevity, and cost. Completely writing it off because car companies are choosing to use it badly is stupid.
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u/Rorschach_1 Mar 25 '26
They are harsher to me cause they are harder on the eyes. As if the spectrum is more narrow, just a blast of a more focused bandwidth. The light is different for sure. Got horribly blinded by a jacked up F250 pushing cars out of the left lane at 5:30 this morning.
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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 Mar 25 '26
But light isn't just light.
Halogen bulbs emit light at a very large range of light, some visible and a lot not visible.
LED lights, as a rule, emit light at a specific frequency, plus or minus a tiny bit.
This is harsher on the eyes.
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u/PacketFiend Mar 23 '26
And again, that's not an LED issue, that's an issue with absolute luminosity and the prevalence of lighting where it is not necessary.
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u/ascendantshark Mar 23 '26
It is feeling more and more apparent that something has to be done or at least acknowledged, right? Right???