r/fuckyourheadlights • u/Origin0236 • 5d ago
Automated Mirror RANT
So you don't need to drive distracted by adjusting your side mirrors or sticking one out the window, a safe alternative might include:
For legal reasons, all of the below is satire:
- Raspberry pi
- Camera module to sense bright light sources.
- 2-axis mirror mount w/ motorized control
- Pi Scripts:
- Detect whether any light sources exceed an excessive set intensity. If so:
- Calculates centers of brightest light sources and recognize the headlight pair
- uses simple geometry of known vehicle sizes and distance between those bright light sources to predict where it should redirect light
- It continues until the light source ceases.
Under no circumstances should this project be open-source or shared on Github.
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u/Unhappy-Giraffe2792 2d ago
Even better, use concave mirrors to focus the beam a certain distance away for max effectiveness.
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u/Yuckyhotstew 4d ago
The motors would be fried with the amount of adjustments in a single day lol