• Franklin
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    1146 months ago

    Can we address headlights that are brighter than the sun now?

    • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      796 months ago

      my issue isn’t really with the brightness, it’s the height. Don’t get me wrong bright headlights are annoying as fuck, but a huge ass truck behind me with their headlights literally higher than my back window is insane.

      • dinckel
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        206 months ago

        My point exactly. The brightness is great, when it works in your favor. But when a modern car sits at such a height, where the low-beams shine directly over the top of my car, it’s obnoxious

        • @Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world
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          136 months ago

          Especially when people fuck with the ride height on their trucks. They almost always end up with the front higher than the back, relative to it’s stock setting. Then don’t bother to adjust the head light angle to compensate.

          Then, on I need a massive light bar on the top of my truck. Never mind that I never take this thing off road or do any work with it. It looks cool and it’s bright and shiny.

          Fuck off. Can we just tax these things properly and not v give them a lower tax rate since their classed as commercial vehicles. No one buying these massive boats uses them for more than going to home Depot once a year to buy some leaf bags.

          /Rant

        • @T156@lemmy.world
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          126 months ago

          That, and people don’t know how to adjust them, or are unwilling to. My parents’ cars have a dial to adjust the headlight angle for when carrying weight in the back of the car, or when towing, but they never touch the setting.

          • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            26 months ago

            I miss that in my old car. When I’m drivng around in the city and don’t rally need much headlighting I’d angle them all the way down. When I’m in a dark area where there’s enough people that I can’t use my brights I’d just angle them up. My current car has stupid self leveling headlights so I don’t get any of that fun :(

      • Franklin
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        86 months ago

        I don’t know the white point on some of the LED headlights is extremely taxing to look at at night.

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        46 months ago

        My car has adjustable headlight height and I love it. I put em all the way down because they’re stupid bright.

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      That and buttons that are almost as flat as touchscreens.

      I want my clickety-click Fallout and Star Wars rugged industrial feeling.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        36 months ago

        And for some reason my state still doesn’t have properly reflecting paint, so everyone drives with their high-beams on because otherwise you can’t see the lanes. The net result is that nobody can see anything because they’re constantly being blinded by oncoming traffic.

        It sucks all the way down…

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      26 months ago

      Never had an issue with them but then I live in Europe, where auto-adjusting/adaptive lights aren’t just legal it’s a requirement if you want to make the headlights permanent high-beams.