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It is here and sucks on curvy roads. My commute is down a mountain canyon and if I'm on the outside of a curve (turning left) the incoming traffic does not dete
by sojournerc 1y ago
It is here and sucks on curvy roads. My commute is down a mountain canyon and if I'm on the outside of a curve (turning left) the incoming traffic does not detect my headlights and I'm blinded for the entire curve. I want them banned. How hard is switching between high and low beams?
- kylebenzle 1y ago[dead]
- mlyle 1y agoWe're not talking about auto high-beams. We're talking about headlights that mask out a portion (of even the normal beam) based on where other cars are.
- eqvinox 1y agoYes we are talking about the same thing. The recognizing other cars part of those systems is… not great. (yet? hopefully.)
- WarOnPrivacy 1y ago> The recognizing other cars part of those systems is… not great. (yet? hopefully.) Or bicyclists or pedestrians. We have all of automotive histroy to demonstrate that blinding others isn't necessary for driving, not even for comfort-level safety gains.
- mlyle 1y agoI don't know how he'd be deciding which oncoming cars are equipped with this feature, as it's still uncommon. And he said " How hard is switching between high and low beams?" which seems to be more talking about auto high beams. Better -something- that's trying to mask low beams than the alternative (nothing).
- eqvinox 1y ago> I don't know how he'd be deciding which oncoming cars are equipped with this feature, as it's still uncommon. The technology is required on some types of headlights (which you can recognise), because… > Better -something- that's trying to mask low beams than the alternative (nothing). …they also made low beams notably brighter and reach further (= extended the angular output). The alternative isn't nothing, it's less bright low beams.