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As someone also with bad eyes, everyone else going to LEDs has been a huge hindrance to my driving confidence at night. The light your own car produces will al
by munificent 5y ago
As someone also with bad eyes, everyone else going to LEDs has been a huge hindrance to my driving confidence at night.
The light your own car produces will always be only a tiny fraction of the illumination you see when driving because you only see the subset of it that gets reflected back by the road and other objects. But the headlights of other cars shine directly in your eyes.
When I drive at night now, I see mostly harsh headlight glare surrounded by inky blackness.
- EricE 5y agoLED headlight arrays are far more effective at eliminating spill over than HID or halogen lights. My parents have a 2019 Acura RDX and the lighting on it is very precise and much lower than the previous cars they or I have owned. Being able to see farther at night significantly reduces the amount of accidents. If oncoming headlights bother you then the move to LED should be embraced. Nothing like getting swatted with a HID projector lamp. LED arrays are also a lot more compact, so features like self leveling will hopefully be more likely to spread to more models instead of being purely a luxury feature, further reducing the amount of overspill in oncoming headlights.
- laurencerowe 5y agoDo LED headlights help when drivers leave headlights on full beam when there is oncoming traffic? (The norm in California.)
- whatever1 5y agoThat should be a straightforward problem to solve with an lcd layer for the windshield and a camera tracking the eyes of the driver. Windshield could black out specific spots that are too bright for the driver. This could apply either for headlights of other cars or the Sun
- addaon 5y agoInteresting idea, but the failure modes here are spectacular.