>>28900813
i'm thinking about buying a beam expanded for my 5W handheld laser.

>>28900813
Don't look at it.

>>28900813
I wanna say in the last 3 years it has ramped up pretty bad no that eye rape technology has trickled down from luxury cars to pleb tier cars

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>>28900815
>Don't look at it.

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the last 10 years but the last 5 specifically
LED headlights need to be banned as a safety hazard and anti-human.
the ban should be retroactive, meaning every fucking moron that bought one of these nucar shitboxes needs to prove they retrofitted properly aimed halogen headlights before they can renew their registration.
pic very related.

>>28900818
Do you go outside and stare at the sun too?

How did this shit get passed? How is it only getting worse?

boomers are the only ones who can afford new cars and their eyesight is shit

>>28900833
there was nothing passed, headlight regulations haven't been changed since 1986 and they were designed for halogen bulbs. fitting LED into the same standard allows for literally unlimited brightness.

>Chris Trechter, a lighting-focused engineer who used to work for Magna International, the largest automobile parts manufacturer in North America, told me the company would adhere to 108 in making headlights for clients like General Motors but that the rule is “archaic.” “It does not account for LEDs,” he said, “and there are giant loopholes that allow you to throw basically unlimited light as long as you meet all the other aspects of 108.”

>>28900832
I would if the sun was a few feet from my face taking up my entire field of vision.
>just drive your car with your eyes closed bro
kys

>>28900851
if oncoming car headlights are a few feet from your face and taking up your entire field of vision then you have much bigger problems to worry about.

Regulating emission spectrum peakiness, color temp, and flicker would do way more to reduce eye strain and nighttime accidents than letting laser beams adjust where the light pattern is pointed
>>28900832
NTA but people watch the sunset all the time. Just because you're indoors 100% of your life doesn't mean people don't look at the sun

>>28900824
>regulate every little inch of cars for safety and environmentalism retardation until every car is fucking garbage
>don't regulate blinding headlights
Regulators should all be shot, hanged, boiled alive, thrown in acid, reported to the IRS, roundhouse kicked into wood chippers, curb stomped, beheaded and skinned alive.

>>28900892
headlights are tightly regulated and brightness capped

>>28900909
quote the regulation

>>28900813
I don't see the problem here. I'm perfectly comfortable looking at that here in my downstairs media room.

>>28900911
>DO MY HOMEWORK
Look up ECE R***

My car has 25w xenons and I can't see shit at night. Bring on the LEDs

>>28900953
why did you buy the cucked version

>>28900909
>and brightness capped
it literally isn't

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>>28900909
nope. the only requirement is it can't create glare in certain directions, which they just aim it so it doesn't go in those directions. headlights have no limit on brightness at all, which is why headlights are more than twice as bright now as they were 10 years ago. see >>28900824
and >>28900847

>>28901071
false
>see graph without source
fantastic mr expert
>>28900847
this is peak horeshit by the way, the most recent ece document i got my hands on was from the mid 2010s, the regulations from a global point of view get constantly adjusted. mutts may get a dumped down version, like is matrix masking still ilegal in the land of the free?

>>28901087
ok then link these regulations you fucking retard. you can't
>b-b-but muh ECE document
absolutely full of shit

>>28901094
I will go toe to toe with you on bird law.

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>>28901071
>>28900911
>>28900966
49 CFR 571 table XIX-a
Looks like maximum brightness is 20,000 candelas at a point 0.5 degree down and 1.5 degree out from center.

>>28901941
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-571/subpart-B

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>>28901941
The problem is that modern beam forming is so aggressive you can read close to zero in the region they measure from and still have essentially unlimited brightness elsewhere.

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>>28901955
softer, dimmer light is the solution

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>>28900813
>tfw installed 60w per lamp led projectors
>tfw flashing the high beam is like a flashbang

>>28900962
Didn't know it would make a big difference. Everything is led now so it doesn't really matter they're all bright.

50% of the problem is subhuman browns and africans who don't understand how high beams work, just "me see brighter"
the other half is piss poor car design

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>>28900813
i bet you most of these complaints would go away if LEDs were selective yellow. it's bright, but your eyes cope with yellow light far better than the bullshit blue-white that is every LED now
>>28900860
clearly you've never had the misfortune of someone turning on their lights and just sitting in their car in front of you in a parking lot

>>28903179
>clearly you've never had the misfortune of someone turning on their lights and just sitting in their car in front of you in a parking lot
Oh god, everybody takes forever to leave now. They sit there idling 10-30 minutes while they check messages, take selfies, post to tiktok, etc.

>>28903203
i wouldn't mind so much if they just turned off their fucking lights

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>>28903221
>tee hee, turn off my what?

>>28900813
Every automotive malady you can think of traces its impetus to the purchasing habits of boomers, women, and browns

>not sure if someone is flashing their highbeams at me to warn me that cops are ahead or if they hit a tiny bump in the road causing the LED to blind me with the force of a thousand suns
I hate this timeline

>>28903275
>Crawling in very slow traffic, someone indicating to turn across but waiting forever to turn
>Flash (halogen) highbeams at them to take the gap I've left
50/50 these days they just sit there gormless and on autopilot, their existence firmly behind their own eyelids, or they take the gap and wave thanks.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-dot-ban-blinding-headlights-and-save-lives?source_location=psf_petitions

https://www.softlights.org/

>>28903255
It's like helping crippled or diseased wild animals. Nature, humanity notwithstanding, has been shaped by the process of natural selection. The second you begin catering to the lowest common denominator and its ilk, is when the species as a whole begins to deteriorate.
People don't look at their side mirrors. What do we do? We put little blinky lights in them to let people know there is someone in their 'blind' spot. If they don't use their side mirrors in the first fucking place, what's the goddamn point?
On a daily basis, without fail, I approach these vehicles with the yellow 'blind indicator' lit and they begin moving into my lane before using an indicator anyway. People become displacement, further relying on nanny controls to do what their attentiveness should have already covered.

Boils my fucking blood.

>>28903493
That is such garbage design. It looks like an indicator (for other drivers), but it isn't. It flashes, it's orange, looks like an indicator. Genuinely and impressively dogshit design and execution. I can not believe how fucking bad car design and production has gotten lately. Some of these lights simply stay on (toggle), whereas I've seen others that flicker rapidly. I don't know if this is intentional or buggy, but I specifically seen said flashing one 4 days ago on a freeway and it was retarded and very distracting.

>>28901955
I love getting flashbanged because the oncoming car hit a very small pothole

>>28903493
>>28903497
i don't think i've ever seen any blind spot indicator flash when i get near a car that has one, it's just a red or orange light that stays on and it's on the mirror glass itself (lol i wonder how much replacements cost). maybe i just haven't seen one yet.
but you really don't need those because even cars with flat mirrors can almost completely eliminate blind spots, it's just that nobody knows how to adjust them properly, and it shows the absolute state of car design when the manufacturers aren't pushing back and saying "no, people need to learn how to adjust their mirrors we should not cater to idiots"

>>28900813
>got windshield tinted with 50%
not my problem

>>28900833
Big optometry wants you in their office sooner than later. I unironically believe this.

Blame consumers who need hibeam tier lows because they are blind and believe every blade of grass needs to be litup for 500m in front of them.

>>28903713
start a shill campaign where e-celebs on instagram and tiktok etc. suddenly make selective yellow lamps the "in" thing to get. before you know it everyone and their grandma (and especially their grandma) will want them for their own cars and it'll usher in an age of selective yellow LEDs

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>>28900813
>when did it get this bad?
When retarded zoomers started driving.
Before people would squint, adjust the mirror, cuss the other driver and go about their day.
You fucking pussies bitching about bright lights like it's such a huge problem just shows that you can't deal with trivial shit without making it everybody else's problem.
>pic very related, it's you assholes acting like bright lights are the end of the world

>>28901955
>lets move the goalpost
>The problem is reeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>28900813
My Subaru has eyesight cameras that make driving so much safer for me and others with the same brand. It wouldn't work in night without these lights. Why is it bad to get advanced safety measures to protect ourselves when driving?

>>28903762
it's all trivial until you crash into a fallen tree branch because the fuckwit in the other lane kept his brights on

>>28903762
>zoomers are the only ones with eyes!
>LEDS existed before their time!
kys

>>28903791
>have low visibility
>proceed to drive blind at high speed
>crash into static object
How do you tards even pass the driver exam?
On a road with oncoming traffic your visual range without being a nigger is low beam range, just 50 to 70 meter. That means when driving at 60mph your braking distance with cat like reflexes is well above your vision range, 100m.

>>28903787
kek, are you crippled or something? my body has eyesite eyeballs that make driving perfectly safe for me.

>>28903798
wish i saved that dash cam clip of a guy driving down a country road at night and the oncoming vehicle had his brights on so he only saw the tree branch at the last moment because of the glare.
but hey it's a trivial problem, you should be able to deal with the tards :)

>>28903762
The Boomer cries out in pain as he drives his nu-RAM at 70 in a 35 and blinds everyone with his headlights

>>28900824
>nooo the sidemarkers have to be yellow lensed because they just do
>meanwhile this gets worse each year because they refuse to adopt EU style regulations
you don't hate the NHSTA enough

>>28903800
Sometimes you're tired. Sometimes the weather is awful. Sometimes bullshit happens. That system is a huge boon to have

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>>28903762
the boomer cries out in pain as a collimated beam of light scatters across the windshield of his truck

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>>28903762
>>28904007
>-AAACCCKKKK!
>*crashes into a ditch*

>>28904006
skill issue. stay off the roads if you can't drive.

>>28903229
Gen-Z lacks the bandwidth to manage the on/off options?

>>28904023
normies just leave their nucar headlights on auto ode 24/7. the concept of turning on and off headlights as needed is foreign to them.

>>28900892
It's less brightness and more that fucking retards drive around with them aimed at fucking eye level. Then they throw a fit when you flash them back as if they can't tell they're blinding you when they can see your retinas in the middle of the night. As if their shittily adjusted headlights are something they can't fix.

>>28903221
>Trying to eat dinner looking over a scenic view with the missus
>Fucking SUV pulls up behind and blasts us with their fulls whilst parked for 30+ minutes

>>28903493
Not to mention how lane assist now acts as a reminder to retards to use their indicators. Watched some shitfuck crossover try to change lanes today, fight their lane assist for about 10 seconds and then finally turn their indicator on.

>>28903671
>The year is 2026
>You will now have to wear sunglasses whilst driving at night just to avoid being blinded

>>28903801
there must be multiple, the one I remember involved the glare hiding an entire moose (or deer?)

>>28904023
most people don't know what 90% of the buttons in their car do
it's not just a gen z thing

Is there actually a good use-case for auto on the lights dial? I never use it but I've noticed most cars I see (e.g. passenger of) they just keep it on auto and never touch it. I'm too used to doing everything myself, even something small like lights.

>>28904130

I can think of a couple, one being retard-proofing and another being manufacturer retard design decisions

>Retard-proofing
A lot of cars outside of Europe have DRLs that show illumination at the front of the car at all times while driving, but that don't light up the tail lights, auto lights will light up the tail lights when it gets dark and will stop some retards from just driving all the time with DRLs on and nothing else

>manufacturer retard design decisions
Some manufacturers have decided that leaving-home and coming-home light functions used by people living or parking in poorly lit areas only work when auto is selected, this wasn't always the case

>>28903762
lmao you struck a nerve

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>>28903762
>AAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE MY HAIRLINE IS COOKED SAVE ME SAINT FLOYD

>>28900815
So true bestie just don't look at the road when driving #lifehacks

>>28904023
>>28904027
most cars made in the past 10 years don't even have the option to completely turn off the lights now. it's either auto, parking lamps or low/passing beams.

>>28904088
the one i'm talking about was in australia. i think the guy was driving a 70 series land cruiser so there's no way it was a height issue either. i think you actually see him slow down too specifically because the fuckwit in the oncoming lane is blinding him then suddenly tree branch

>>28900833
Vehicles are getting taller and you're still driving a tiny clownbox. Learn how a fucking triangle works.

>>28904795
Based retard.

>>28903493
>he second you begin catering to the lowest common denominator and its ilk, is when the species as a whole begins to deteriorate.
Make brutality great again. Not even kidding, it's my entire political ideology at this point.

>>28903671
>>got windshield tinted with 50%
Bad b8.
50% tint is nothing you might as well save a few bucks and do 90% instead. 30% is the minimum to actually notice a difference

>>28904795
its crazy how this just got slipped in. tl;dr, car manufacturers can pay less taxes because they get put into a different car category if their vehicle is over certain size, so its being exploited to all fuck. its why trucks suddenly have these MASSIVE front grills that when you open are just full of plastic? since that massive hood "takes more square footage", its in a new category and doesnt need to conform to whatever regulations. its pretty nuts.

they are literally just making cars unnecessarily large just so they can sell the same car to you at a higher profit margin. crazy shit

>>28900832
is the sun within 10 degrees of fov to what youre trying to pay attention to at all times?

>>28905828
Have you ever driven east or west at sunrise/sunset?

>>28905840
BLIIINDED BY THE LIGHT
WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE YOU KNOW A BONER IN THE NIGHT

>>28905828
yes, good thing it only lasts for like 30 minutes and its not at peak brightness and you can use the sunshade

>>28905846
it's also a consistent brightness instead of constantly switching between pitch black and 50,000 lumens directly in your face

>>28904192
It's all cope and exaggeration over dealing with the fact someone brighted you. Apparently that's easier than admitting to acting like a bitch.

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>>28900813
https://may.2chan.net/b/res/1399736442.htm
It's spreading

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>>28908973
Why? That is this website's parent.

>>28900832
The sun isn't tailgating me or driving in oncoming traffic

>>28905779
>they are literally just making cars unnecessarily large just so they can sell the same car to you at a higher profit margin. crazy shit
Welp, people keep buying. Clearly people don’t mind paying for 4Runners the size of Sequoias and Tacomas the size of F-150s. Complain as much as you want, but the average consumer has no issue racking up debt to buy a new car every few years (then complain about affordability issues lol)

>>28904023
Zoomers can’t even afford cars don’t act like millennial moms aren’t doing the same thing

>>28903164
>50% of the problem is subhuman browns and africans who don't understand how high beams work, just "me see brighter"
This 100%. I guarantee its not a problem in Vermont or Maine.

Also, aftermarket headlight LEDs say Offroad Use Only right on the package. Selfish assholes ignore that and install the highest lumen bulbs on sale.
OEM LED headlights are properly designed to not blind other drivers.

>>28900813
9 times out of 10 it's a spic driving his 2010 Accord or CRV with Amazon LEDs

>>28904023
why bother when the car literally doesn't let you turn off your lights

(and yet somehow people still manage to drive with no lights on in new cars at night)

>>28913410
it's basically 90% of nucars now

>>28910572
>OEM LED headlights are properly designed to not blind other drivers.*
*on a perfectly level road.
Any bumps or hills and you're still getting flashbanged

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>>28910572
>OEM LED headlights are properly designed to not blind other drivers.
lol
lmao
kek
jej

>>28910572
>OEM LED headlights are properly designed to not blind other drivers.
Wrong, they literally cheat the max brightness regulations by dimming it only where the testing equipment measures it.