Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
theringer.com
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
  • LovesTha🥧@floss.social
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn’t the better interim solution.

    While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.

    It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.

    • zhunk@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 hours ago

      It isn’t just brightness. It’s also the height, how they’re pointed, and whether the driver is an asshole who doesn’t dim the brights for oncoming traffic.

    • Halasham@dormi.zone
      4·
      9 hours ago

      Modern headlights are blinding to anyone not in the vehicle using them. Oncoming headlights if you’re in anything shorter than whatever is producing them makes it near-impossible to see the road.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    23 hours ago

    When you let an industry regulate itself, you end up with the 737-MAX and a reassurance that existing 737 pilots don’t need further training to fly it…