I will still take LED lights over the abomination that is Xenon lights any day of the week.
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LEDs aren't the problem, it's that they're too bright in the forward direction. It's perfectly possible to make normal brightness LED headlights, car manufacturers just don't do it because bright headlights look great on the lot and sell more cars
We need new regulations on headlights. 1: make soft white mandatory for non-highbeams. 2: make headlights adjustments and tests part of annual safety inspections so that the highlights on trucks do not shine directly into a sedan's drivers eyes via the rearview mirror.
Yep, the part that causes issues is they're never aligned properly like the stock headlights are. If they shined on the road, they wouldn't be an issue. It's when they shine into your mirror or wind shield that causes issues. It isn't the brightness. (They may also be too bright, but that's not what's causing problems.)
The existing regulations for headlights are actually quite sufficient, and already cover some of those concerns. The problem is that there's no enforcement of the regulations.
There's barely any enforcement of traffic laws, at least where I live. It's amazing how many people break the law in dangerous ways every day. And I'm not including speeding in this assessment.
Yeah, the problem with LEDs is that they leaned into the bright as possible approach which makes the misaligned headlights even worse than the old bulbs. They could easily make the headlights a soft light. Harsh white light was a choice.
They've also lowered their placement on the front end, meaning they're pointing more horizontal.
Oh, and everyone's driving three story tall monster minivans now
Isn't the issue largely with people retrofitting their vehicles with LED bulbs when they don't have the correct diffused cover?
Either way I'd rather deal with bright lights then getting murdered by the police for having a headlight out
So easy to spot US citizens these days.
The really funny thing is they have the tech built in that will auto dim the lights when facing another car, a bicycle or person on the street.
It's just enabled in the EU where matrix dynamic adaptive headlights are allowed.
The US has had a law to allow them for 3ish years, but the NTSB is dragging its feet.
The real kicker is the companies that have the tech built in, namely Audi, BMW, Porsche don't have plans to enable it with a firmware change, it'll be available once the cars are approved on future models.
There is a bit different from the Tesla Model Y adaptive headlights which are only applied to the high beams.
A fair number of models have low and high matrix beams, and it's pretty spectacular seeing it in action. It can dim the light against people's heads, cuts off clean lines at opposing vehicle headlights so your bright light never hits their windshield, and dim against street signs so they don't reflect blinding lights back at you.
Check out some videos of the Audi Matrix HD lights. Try to rent one if you're in Germany next. It's really something else.
So much better than the kneecapped shit we get state side.
I'm from Germany and all of this fancy matrix dynamic adaptive stuff doesn't change the fact that I get blinded by bright flashy LEDs every time I drive at night.
A colleague had to buy blue-lights filtering glasses to avoid being blinded/irritated at night
That shit is too slow, you are blinded for a second until it detects you, I hate them.
Problem is, you didn't notice the ones working correctly.
I was reading something saying the US law is written in such a way that the existing EU matrix headlights won't comply and auto manufacturers would need to create a new module to bring it to US market. Just recently Rivian designed their own matrix headlight for their gen 2 R1 vehicles that's the first for US.
We kept asking could we?
Only too late we as should we?