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My house's front door faces a street lamp, and ever since the town replaced it with a white LED, it's terribly blinding to walk by in the evening. I wish my do
by floatrock 8y ago
My house's front door faces a street lamp, and ever since the town replaced it with a white LED, it's terribly blinding to walk by in the evening. I wish my door came with flux or nightshift.
That being said, I wonder how much of this is marketing the wrong product. When I see towns or cities advertising the shift, they use phrases like "more natural lighting" (yes, cool white is closer to daylight) and "brighter" (a messy concept when including colors, but I think they mean perceived brightness which again goes back to cool daylight temperature).
Those sound like Good Things for a city (which I imagine is why they're buying these things), but really we're being marketed the wrong things. I don't want "more natural" daylight lighting at night, because it's night and I want to sleep. It may make drivers slightly more alert, but it comes at the cost of polluting everyone else's house (like my front door).
So the people being marketed these lights hear things that sound good and sound like they make our communities safe, but really these are features we don't actually want for nighttime lighting... we need to realize we need different solutions for this problem.