this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
82 points (98.8% liked)
askchapo
22972 readers
320 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Everybody and their moms complain about LED headlights. It’s a really handy dialectic than what they think actually doesn’t matter in the market or our so called liberal democracy.
It's a plot by big bulb to make more profits off of forcing obsolescence on an entire perfectly finely lit world by cramming it full of lethal junk that's easier to manufacture to fail at planned times, cheaper to make, but easier to price gouge on! The auto and insurance companies are in on it too! More taxpayer spending to line their pockets making "safer" cars while profiting off of people getting injured because of unsafe lighting conditions caused by their devil lights by sucking the blood of the innocent with jacked up prices for being blinded by the devils lights and causing harm then being denied for coverage by the tight-fisted insurance kulaks!
More that LEDs enable designs and bazinga sales tactics that appeal to the lowest common demonitor of first time car buyers. The kind who think they need to invest in a potential lighthouse.
It's probably something that is very easy to fix. Like manditory adjustments of the LEDs and some sort of software update to crank down the lumens or whatever. But that requires actual regulation that our politics are too weak to enforce. It's partciular fustrating because much of the complaints is this crash-out rheotric where you end up wasting alot of time with people who have no interest in engaging with the issue but expect you to be their therapist.