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this The availability of cheap overkill LEDs is making cities worse... It's especially noticeable when walking at night in areas with restaurants and nightlife

by stfp 7y ago

this The availability of cheap overkill LEDs is making cities worse... It's especially noticeable when walking at night in areas with restaurants and nightlife. It's not just street lightning, but also private buildings (maybe they're after that prison yard look?) and cars (giving pedestrians and drivers free lasik, nice!). Maybe these are OK for highways, but this sucks big time for everywhere else.

jacobolus 7y ago
They are just as terrible for highways. Getting hammered by blue glare in your peripheral vision is very distracting and destroys night vision, making it harder for drivers to see. (For the same reason, LED car headlamps are horrifically bad for everyone other driver on the road.)
- lotsofpulp 7y ago
  I don’t understand why there aren’t isn’t strict enforcement of laws about headlights yet. Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road?
  - teslabox 7y ago
    > Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road? They don't realize there's a problem, or they've just spent a lot of money "upgrading" their vehicle fleets and don't want to consider that they've been ripped off. The vehicles of my local police departments and state highway patrol have had all their safe incandescents replaced with blinding LEDs. Flashing blue LEDs on the roof of the cars, flashing blue-white LEDs mixed in with the flashing red and blue LEDs, and blinding amber LEDs to warn of road hazards. The vehicles have blue-white spot lights, and sometimes they have blue-white light bars on to blind everyone within a quarter mile of the scene. I think the police officers think their new lights are cool. OSHA [0] should intervene, but I don't know that I can make a complaint on the police officers' behalf... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health...

by stfp 7y ago

jacobolus 7y ago

They are just as terrible for highways. Getting hammered by blue glare in your peripheral vision is very distracting and destroys night vision, making it harder for drivers to see. (For the same reason, LED car headlamps are horrifically bad for everyone other driver on the road.)

lotsofpulp 7y ago
I don’t understand why there aren’t isn’t strict enforcement of laws about headlights yet. Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road?
- teslabox 7y ago
  > Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road? They don't realize there's a problem, or they've just spent a lot of money "upgrading" their vehicle fleets and don't want to consider that they've been ripped off. The vehicles of my local police departments and state highway patrol have had all their safe incandescents replaced with blinding LEDs. Flashing blue LEDs on the roof of the cars, flashing blue-white LEDs mixed in with the flashing red and blue LEDs, and blinding amber LEDs to warn of road hazards. The vehicles have blue-white spot lights, and sometimes they have blue-white light bars on to blind everyone within a quarter mile of the scene. I think the police officers think their new lights are cool. OSHA [0] should intervene, but I don't know that I can make a complaint on the police officers' behalf... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health...