i’m still amazed how these fucking lights got through regulation in germany. ‘everything’ is regulated here. but these blinding pieces of shit got through. i know the answer: money. as in cars, the crown jewel of the german economy. i hate them sooooooo much.
Wait, Germany bans good-quality bike lights, but allows unregulated lights on fucking cars‽‽
stop! badly adjusted way too bright bike lights are the most hated things in my life. i have nothing left but spite for them. i’m activily holding myself back right now. i could sputter nonsensical insults for hours because of them. One time i started to carry a stupid bright flash light with myself just to blind them fuckers back. since then i grown up. but awfafhasifhaoshfoahgoiahsdoigasddfafas asfdda fuck
German law literally restricts bike light brightness to a point of being impractical in the dark. It bans blinking lights despite research showing blinking lights increase visibility of cyclists. It requires cut-offs that make it so you literally can’t see what’s ahead of you until it’s too late to react to it, if you’re riding at speed.
If you’re only ever riding at a slow 20 km/h on relatively well-lit city streets, it might be fine. But that’s just not reality.
You’re required to have a rear light, but it must be mounted between 25 and 60 cm above the ground…so you can forget about a light mounted on your helmet or backpack…or even at the most natural place for a light…at the top of your seatpost. It’s fucking nonsensical. And to learn that despite all this bullshit making cyclists less safe, car lights are unrestricted? Oh boy, am I incensed right now.
tbh i dont care what theoretically is written in law. what i care about are the fuckers who light up the 200m infront of them with their led lights and with that burn up my corneas. everyday multiple times. dont get me wrong, led lights are awesome. i use them myself. but there are too much assholes who only think about them self. even if with 30km/h you certainly dont need the visibility of cars full bright.
am i overreacting? maybe. idk. but these fuckheads drive me mad everyday.
I feel like there is no such thing as low beams anymore. Low beams used to be less bright, now they’re just as fucking bright and aimed SLIGHTLY down. God forbid the road isn’t exactly flat or you have a slightly different height vehicle.
Dodge RAM enters the chat.
I like LEDs. The only issue is building the optic so it doesn’t glare in people’s faces
I like flashlights and I own…probably almost 100 at this point
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Emisar, my love.
I’m not a fan of hank lights.
How come? I love my D4V2 and ridiculous DT8.
the auduril UI is too much. Too many things can go wrong with it
Fair! I’ve had mine forever and I never updated my D4V2 from original, and it has never failed me.
It is A LOT though. I use like seven features of its million. When I first got it I was like “how tf does one button make a million features happen”
In Canada we have mandatory DRL (Daytime Running Lights) and often, cars use high beam with a low voltage or PWM. When people replace their standard bulbs with LED bulb, it means during the day you are flashed by high beam in your eyes, even in full summer at noon you can be completely blinded by cars coming towards you, it’s fucking annoying!
Most EVs, and especially Teslas, are prime offenders. It’s like the focused them specifically to blind oncoming drivers. Which would be selfishly on-brand for Tesla.
In my experience (driving a 2003 Ford KA) Teslas were one of the less bad brands for it, VW group were the worst modern fords are also horrific though.
I’m also annoyed by PWM artifacts on taillights.
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.And yet I get blinded every single day
Seems country dependent. Maybe even mean purchasing-power related.
But it’s a people problem, they either use illegal (for their vehicle) bulbs or the infrastructure doesn’t demand better.
I live somewhere with mandatory intensive yearly inspections, still a issue and is even a issue on new cars (can tell via the numberplates here) which have just rolled off the lot. Fuck these shitty headlights.
Wait, the new cars are not law compliant?
They nominally are, I still get blinded by them. These are 25 plate fords, VW group, landrovers etc.
Can I ask in what situations?
Like on even, level road when they are facing you?
Or like a hilly road?And we arent talking high beams or fog lamps (some people just drive with them constantly)?
Or are the cars loaded at the back which makes their headlights point to high up?
And people don’t use this thing:
(This is what I mean by auto-leveling & that the govs should mandate it - people aren’t doing it manually & don’t know what this switch does … or don’t notice their headlamps are illuminating peoples faces in other cars.)On a straight fairly flat A road, no clue if they’ve adjusted them properly or not thats besides the point, they’re extremely blinding very consistently. The car I drive is very small and quite low to the ground. And these are absolutely not high beams, I’ve flashed a few coming the opposite direction because I thought they had high beams on, I am then blinded even further when they return the favour.
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.
Fucking god this is the truth.
HID headlights were just as bad, and those go back to the 90’s.
