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This will chiefly affect commercial billboards and the like, which should not be even allowed to ever emit light (or exist) IMNSHO.
by brnt 4y ago
This will chiefly affect commercial billboards and the like, which should not be even allowed to ever emit light (or exist) IMNSHO.
- sva_ 4y agoFor real, when they installed some of these ultra bright billboards by the street, I'd get blinded by them as I waited at the traffic light, especially on shorter winter days. The operator claimed they don't run them in the dark, but that was definitely a lie.
- avian 4y ago> The operator claimed they don't run them in the dark I think the following progression of events leads to many of those blindingly bright digital signs at night: Original sign conforms with regulations and comes with a light sensor to dynamically adjust brightness. It's bright during the day, dim during the night. After a few months the light sensors gets gunked up with dirt. Display now thinks its night all the time. It's way too dim to see in daylight. People running the display don't like that you can't read their ads during the day. They realize that cleaning the sensor every X days will be expensive, so they get someone to defeat the light sensor altogether and get the display to run at full brightness all the time. Result is a sign that's still making money during those valuable rush-hour traffic times, at the cost of beaming deathrays into driver's eyeballs at night.
- gog 4y agoIt's not only a gunked up light sensor, it is buggy software as well that is running those panels. At least that is what I heard from a friend working in the industry maintaining those displays.
- tpxl 4y agoFWIW, it's trivial to determine sunsets and sunrises for years in advance. If the only concern is day/night, and not also clouds/rain/whatever, then that is the cheaper, more reliable solution.
- Corrado 4y agoThere are several of these ultra-bright LED signs in my neighborhood that are very annoying at night. One is at a nearby church displaying the schedule and various upcoming activities. It is at eye level and is just off to the side of the street (as most church signs are) and is so bright that it lights up everything within 200 meters. This is the same for several banks and liquor stores in the area. Honestly, I don't see how the people that live across the street get any sleep at night.
- louwrentius 4y agoI n NL we have human size billboards that have active cooling for crying out loud. When you walk past them, you hear a loud fan. Just such a waste of energy. I wish advertising should only be forbidden to use active lighting at all.
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- ClumsyPilot 4y agoSo many best and brightest in our society work on ads, from google ads to these billboars. If these efforts were invested in something usefull...
- cbg0 4y agoThis is not an either or proposition, we can do both useful & not useful things at the same time.
- mrguyorama 4y agoMaine banned billboards a long time ago. One of the best things ever and somehow customers in Maine still find their products and services.