Its not the headlights, it's fuckera messing with their car or bribing the inspector to not fail them on broken auto adjust systems, or (for a while) people putting shitty aliexpres lights in halogen projectors
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What deregulation-used brain that that doesn't demand safe legal infrastructure for their roads made this meme?
(LEDs are the way safer tech, if they aren't used wrong)
Brighter headlights than incandescent bulbs provided is a safety feature - legislation needs to make you safe by insuring irl that it's not directed to other drivers (various countries also set max candles at various distances too, but that's not even the issue).
A yearly mandatory roadworthiness test & legislation about what the max distance from road headlights can even be positioned solves all problems (apart from deliberate long-beaming peoples peepers - which should be solved by fees/cops).
Not to mention nowdays few cars don't have auto-leveling or adaptive headlights. So it feels like a half-solved perform.
And again, like automatic emergency braking, govs could just demand auto-headlight-leveling as minimal equipment from some production date onwards.
The problem is that incandescent lights are 1) warmer in tone, which is less harsh for the same candle ratings, 2) have a more gradual boundary than LED projector-style headlights, which means you aren't suddenly blinded when the car coming towards you goes over a minor bump, and 3) aren't a point light-source with the reflector design they have unlike LEDs, and thus are less painful. NONE of these issues are dealt with in a vast majority of new cars (adaptive-angle headlamps would do a lot to help, but would only fix one of the three issues - and only when the camera can actually figure out when they should be lowering the angle, which is far from foolproof).
If I could easily replace the LED headlamp in my new car with an incandescent lamp, I would - because I could still see decently with my old car's headlights, and I wasn't at risk of blinding everyone in the oncoming lane next to me.
If you focus the light correctly they’re not bad.
The problem is folks put new LED bulbs in old fixtures designed for non-led bulbs. These scatter light everywhere and annoy people. Plus they have to be even brighter because the light isn’t focused where it needs to go.
Also, the newer massive trucks that are so high they blind anyone lower than them regardless of how properly it's configured.
Also just cars being too high/big. My car gives no issues to others, but fuck me those bigger cars...
That Nissan SUV from factory is horrible, lights are up high and blinding.
To be fair it’s a Nissan
Can we stop saying this? This might have been the case 10 years ago when conventional bulbs were the better established headlight standard but they're coming off the line like this these days. It has nothing to do with the housing and everything to do with the height they sit at, where they're aimed, and the brightness.
Yeah this, its brand new production cars with factory fitted light units drives me insane.