LED lights blinding - its not just me is it?
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What ho,
You can spot new cars easily, they have bright white DRLs, and headlights. And I find them blinding. Looking directly at them leaves darks spots that take a little time to go. Our eyes do get less elastic as we get older I know. However I am learning to hate the LEDs on cars at night, or during the day for that matter. I sit low in my car and often find myself lit up like a Christmas tree in traffic, two bright burning red in front, and two dazzling white ones from behind in all my mirrors. At night I have to be careful not to catch an oncoming headlight.
It's not just me is it? I am not sure of the rules on these, but if there are some, they need tweaking a little. LEDs do not produce a gentle light, it scatters poorly, has a lot of high energy blue and a poorly distributed wavelength profile, its not a 'natural' light we've lived with since evolving and I find it too fierce for cars.
I demand something be done
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You can spot new cars easily, they have bright white DRLs, and headlights. And I find them blinding. Looking directly at them leaves darks spots that take a little time to go. Our eyes do get less elastic as we get older I know. However I am learning to hate the LEDs on cars at night, or during the day for that matter. I sit low in my car and often find myself lit up like a Christmas tree in traffic, two bright burning red in front, and two dazzling white ones from behind in all my mirrors. At night I have to be careful not to catch an oncoming headlight.
It's not just me is it? I am not sure of the rules on these, but if there are some, they need tweaking a little. LEDs do not produce a gentle light, it scatters poorly, has a lot of high energy blue and a poorly distributed wavelength profile, its not a 'natural' light we've lived with since evolving and I find it too fierce for cars.
I demand something be done
.I hate the damn things. I love to make purposeful progress as much as anyone, but really, if someone needs lights so bright to be able to see properly at the speed they're travelling at then maybe they need to be going a bit slower. Making the road safer for one driver by using lights so bright that they dazzle everyone else is not a solution.
I've ranted about these things on here many times and been slated every time ... "the lights must be badly adjusted", "my eyes must be dodgy", etc. No. It's every fecking car with them, so either they're all badly adjusted - every single damn one of them - or it's the lights that are just too bright. It's not my eyes - I had a thorough eye exam a few weeks ago and my eyesight was as close to perfect as can be. I mentioned to the optician about these lights and he said a lot of people complain about them. Your eyes adjust to compensate for the brightness and everything else vanishes into a black void, which is exactly my experience. There could be something, or someone, on the road in front of me and I'd have no idea it was there. Or I could slow down to a crawl and risk being hit up the back by the person behind who's also been dazzled to the point of being temporarily blinded. It's just as bad when the car behind has them too - you get dazzled via your own mirrors.
I hate the damn things and they'd be banned if I were in charge and everyone told to slow the f
k down a bit if they can't see well enough with lights that don't blind everyone else.
/rant
I've ranted about these things on here many times and been slated every time ... "the lights must be badly adjusted", "my eyes must be dodgy", etc. No. It's every fecking car with them, so either they're all badly adjusted - every single damn one of them - or it's the lights that are just too bright. It's not my eyes - I had a thorough eye exam a few weeks ago and my eyesight was as close to perfect as can be. I mentioned to the optician about these lights and he said a lot of people complain about them. Your eyes adjust to compensate for the brightness and everything else vanishes into a black void, which is exactly my experience. There could be something, or someone, on the road in front of me and I'd have no idea it was there. Or I could slow down to a crawl and risk being hit up the back by the person behind who's also been dazzled to the point of being temporarily blinded. It's just as bad when the car behind has them too - you get dazzled via your own mirrors.
I hate the damn things and they'd be banned if I were in charge and everyone told to slow the f
k down a bit if they can't see well enough with lights that don't blind everyone else./rant
Yer LED lightists will be here soon, telling you it's your fault for not understanding the technology.
Apparently LED lights are intelligent and don't dazzle.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Apparently LED lights are intelligent and don't dazzle.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by PositronicRay on Wednesday 23 November 18:05
I blame the SUV cult. Higher cars, headlights mounted further up, more likely to shine down into regular cars. Combine that with LED or Xenon, along with the SUV sitting on your rear quarter on a motorway and it gets very irritating, very quickly.
I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate fkers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness.
I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate f
kers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness. Muddle238 said:
I blame the SUV cult. Higher cars, headlights mounted further up, more likely to shine down into regular cars. Combine that with LED or Xenon, along with the SUV sitting on your rear quarter on a motorway and it gets very irritating, very quickly.
I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate fkers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness.
This times 1,000,000. I now stop several car lengths behind inconsiderate pricks in German cars that sit with their foot on the brake in traffic jams. Boils my piss!I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate f
kers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness. rossub said:
Muddle238 said:
I blame the SUV cult. Higher cars, headlights mounted further up, more likely to shine down into regular cars. Combine that with LED or Xenon, along with the SUV sitting on your rear quarter on a motorway and it gets very irritating, very quickly.
I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate fkers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness.
This times 1,000,000. I now stop several car lengths behind inconsiderate pricks in German cars that sit with their foot on the brake in traffic jams. Boils my piss!I don't have too much of a grind about headlights though, what annoys me are the lazy and inconsiderate f
kers who sit with their foot on the brake in traffic. It's unneccesary to have brake lights illuminated when the vehicle behind has stopped, I see it as a sign of poor awareness. Muddle238 said:
I blame the SUV cult. Higher cars, headlights mounted further up, more likely to shine down into regular cars.
My objection is when they are overtaking on a multi-lane carriageway. If they are only going slightly faster than me they can spend several seconds with their left-hand headlight shining directly into my door mirror due to height differences. It is literally only a few metres from the headlight to my eyes.It's not a problem with vans and lorries because they are less likely to be overtaking cars. Vehicles with headlights above a threshold should be classified as trucks and should abide by the lower speed limits.
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