• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Only done poorly, which sadly is most cars, even new. They are aimed too fucking high. Headlights are meant to be aimed down at the damn road. Not up high for far reach. That’s the point of highbeams.

    I got projector leds for my car but i properly aimed them, the light has a sharp hard cutoff juuuuust below the windshield on Most sedans at distance to make sure I don’t blind em. If i need more and it’s safe I’ve got my highbeams which turn the road in even the darkest rural to noon.

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      9 days ago

      The car designers specifically dampen their headlight output in the exact spot where regulators measure their light.

      But there’s also the issue that they have way too much blue light. Blue light still damages eyes even though it’s only UV adjacent and not UV.

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      9 days ago

      Aiming the LEDs is only a partial solution, as soon as you got a slight incline you’re beaming straight into oncomers’ eyes

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        9 days ago

        That is true but to be quite honest even the people that don’t have LEDs are blinding me when they are at an incline to me. In either situation I’m putting my hand up to try and block it out till they pass

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          9 days ago

          There’s something about LEDs, cars with halogens don’t quite have that effect

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      7 days ago

      I mean, it’s certainly better if they’re dipped properly, but each individual LED is still far too bright.

      A scooter with a ring of single LEDs on it drove past me once - I guess they were some sort of cosmetic thing - and they were still dazzlingly bright in full daylight.