It ain’t just the trucks, I’ve been blinded by early 2000s Honda Civics before. I drive a 01 Toyota Tacoma I sit comfortably above their headlights yet I still get blinded.
That’s a completely different problem. Those are bad retrofits. Either the idiot put an LED (with a bad CRI because they like the color) into a reflector made for a halogen bulb, or they did a cheap headlight assembly swap. The bulb swap works like shit because they have completely different radiation patterns. The assembly swap is usually not optimized for the emission pattern either, and they tend to be a bad color as well because there people installing them think they look cool. Most of both of them are illegal to use in the road, but the cops don’t care.
A lot of them are actually angled correctly and are complete unit swaps the problem is the gross output of the things. I live in SoCal that means lots of relatively flat surfaces to bounce light off of even the damned dirt is reflective. Frankly I think LED headlights should be illegal unless they have a cover to break up the light or are kept to certain colors with a hard limit max output
The cybretruck is (but i see a lot of mantrucks) but this is about headlights in any vehicle.
You are required to have them well adjusted so you don’t blind anyone.
it really makes me feel better when my eyes are burned into the seat i’m driving in every night, or even better, it happened to me a few times at dusk now as well.
That would be illegal in most of Europe and will fail an inspection, resulting in a fine.
Those “trucks” are illegal in Europe, but don’t worry Stellantis is trying to fix that with
bribeslobbying.It ain’t just the trucks, I’ve been blinded by early 2000s Honda Civics before. I drive a 01 Toyota Tacoma I sit comfortably above their headlights yet I still get blinded.
That’s a completely different problem. Those are bad retrofits. Either the idiot put an LED (with a bad CRI because they like the color) into a reflector made for a halogen bulb, or they did a cheap headlight assembly swap. The bulb swap works like shit because they have completely different radiation patterns. The assembly swap is usually not optimized for the emission pattern either, and they tend to be a bad color as well because there people installing them think they look cool. Most of both of them are illegal to use in the road, but the cops don’t care.
A lot of them are actually angled correctly and are complete unit swaps the problem is the gross output of the things. I live in SoCal that means lots of relatively flat surfaces to bounce light off of even the damned dirt is reflective. Frankly I think LED headlights should be illegal unless they have a cover to break up the light or are kept to certain colors with a hard limit max output
The cybretruck is (but i see a lot of mantrucks) but this is about headlights in any vehicle.
You are required to have them well adjusted so you don’t blind anyone.
it really makes me feel better when my eyes are burned into the seat i’m driving in every night, or even better, it happened to me a few times at dusk now as well.