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Every time this comes up, someone comes in telling us how adaptive headlights will save the day now that they’re finally approved. Here’s the issue: this proble
by teeray 2y ago
Every time this comes up, someone comes in telling us how adaptive headlights will save the day now that they’re finally approved. Here’s the issue: this problem exists today, and stuffing ever more computers in newer cars is not going to fix all the jacked-up F-150s with retina-searing aftermarket replacement bulbs, and the new cars rolling off the line without adaptive headlights (which will soon become used cars on the road for many years to come).
- bbstats 2y ago[flagged]
- dgfitz 2y agoIt’s funny you single out trucks. Most all new-ish cars these days have the same headlights. Oh trucks sit higher? Is that it? Should we exclusively develop low profile cars/trucks/SUVs? I think second-order effects would prove that this line of reasoning is a disaster. So now what? Make headlights less bright? Is that safer, when you’re driving down a wooded road at night without any other cars around?
- Reasoning 2y ago>So now what? Make headlights less bright? Is that safer, when you’re driving down a wooded road at night without any other cars around? We have a solution for that, they're called high-beams.
- dgfitz 2y ago[flagged]
- do_not_redeem 2y agoHow on earth did you get from "a wooded road at night without any other cars around" to "on all the time"?
- dgfitz 2y agoHmm? Are we to impose restrictions to when high beams are allowed to be used?
- davidbanham 2y agoYes, absolutely. I would be shocked to learn of a jurisdiction in which that is not already the case that seems bizarre.
- valleyer 2y agoHere's that law in California: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=24409 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
- perilunar 2y agoYes. In my state it is illegal to use high-beam when 200m or less from an oncoming vehicle or behind another vehicle.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago> Oh trucks sit higher? Is that it? Should we exclusively develop low profile cars/trucks/SUVs? For the love of god, yes. The American auto industry is simply out of fucking control with the size of trucks and SUVs, which is not JUST making them more difficult to drive safely with larger blind spots, making them MORE prone for parents to run over their own children with, take longer distances to stop and require larger brake components which cost more, more likely to kill anyone they happen to hit whether they're in a car or not, more expensive to buy, and equally shitty on fuel as trucks from the early 2000's are despite 20 fucking years of advancements in ICE technology, but is ALSO making them blind people because the headlight of a Silverado is roughly level with the ROOF of a standard sedan or compact. Like I'm sorry, there is no fucking reason at all that an accountant from Stevesburg Ohio needs a vehicle that has worse safety characteristics than an LTL truck. If we can make SEMI'S not blind me, then we can do it for Joe who works at Walmart. Like... I don't even know why you'd call that LOW profile? My 2010 F-150 is the biggest vehicle I've ever owned, and if I park next to a modern F-150, the newer truck makes mine look like a goddamn mid-size truck. It's ridiculous how HUGE they've gotten.
- dgfitz 2y agoI’ll meet you in the middle on this. Trucks have gotten big, no doubt. I contend, knowing farmers who use their trucks for work every day, they can’t do their job without them. So the question becomes, do we need regulation about who can buy a big truck? I contend that no, regulation just creates loopholes.
- defrost 2y agoOversize SUV's and farm vehicles are not the same thing at all. Farmers with penis extension trucks, ute's, oversized bull bars, vanity spotlights et al are a thing .. but those vehicles are not essential for farm work .. they're there for the circle work. We have farm vehicles, actual three trailer semi prime movers for road trains, modified nine tonne trucks, two storey high combines, chaser trucks for binning grain, ex military trucks for off road fire protection, etc. These are not the road trucks the GP comments are rightfully complaining about.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoYeah I just hate trucks. Truck drivers aren't even a protected class, maybe I'll never hire one :P There's a significant correlation between one's personality and their car. Truck drivers are selfish.