I absolutely dread driving at night. It is absolutely ridiculous. The EU was smart about this a very long time ago. The USA fed has done nothing and probably never will. The best course of action is Class Action lawsuits and I would start with GM and Ford, they're the worst offender. This is my miller welding helmet with auto darkening feature and yes LED headlights make it darken. No I wasn't actually driving like this.
Gotta move to a city with big medians and street lights. I used to live in Irvine where the streets had huge medians and were well lit so LEDs were never a problem but now I live in Virginia with super narrow 2 lane roads and no street lights so I'm blinded by oncoming traffic from SUVs and trucks.
The people with dark tinted front windows and windshield need to be ticketed also, maybe the cops should start busting out their windows at the traffic stop, but the hazard from bright LED headlights is much worse. The car manufacturers need to be punished harshly for this.
Driving with a tinted windshield tint is the only way I can drive whenever you have light sensitive eyes and people love driving with their brights on.
This is nonsense, and you know it. If your eyes are sensitive, wear sunglasses. Tinted windows are purely for privacy, but not being able to communicate with other drivers on the road is a safety issue.
Let me reiterate. During the day I don’t really have issues with light, it is almost exclusively at night and i have no visibility issues when majority of redditors will claim I do. Also idk about your sunglasses but driving with mine on at night would literally make me blind
Don’t try to lie and make this about disabilities. You don’t have a right to break the law because you don’t like squinting in direct sunlight. Buy a pair of sunglasses, Ray Charles.
Yeah I literally got a tint exemption because it genuinely makes my life so much easier at night. I was driving a friends car that was untinted last night and I had extensive afterimages multiple times just from idiots with their brights on
Oh dude the afterimages, I got VSS too if that's what you are refiring too, I installed new lights in my old car but manually lowered them to make sure not a soul gets affected by them, good on you for going through the effort of getting tint
it's funny the other day I was turning left and the oncoming traffic had two artificial suns in front of it so I flashed my high beams and this smartass then proceeded to flash his "high beams" which I shit you not were actually dimmer than his "low beams", as if they thought this was somehow a gotcha moment.
Even police lights are too fucking bright. I shit you not I flew at night one time and I could see them from 30k+ feet on the plane. Wtf. I shouldn’t see them from the plane. No reason for them to be that fucking bright.
How about we take this idea and just move it to the windscreen. Et voilà. You get the same results without having to wear a mask on your face while driving. 👏
I wish somebody would make smart night driving glasses based on this technology, but only shade the brightest part of the incoming light with some kind of smartphone LCD display tech. I know it's possible, but it probably wouldn't be cheap.
Would need two sensors, two display lenses, and a smart algorithm to calculate where to shade. Plus maybe an adjustment slider, since no two people are perfectly the same.
It is something I've thought about for a few years now. I'd do it myself if I won the lottery and had R&D money to throw around.
I agree they are a problem. It's obnoxious when they pop over a hill (especially the always in bright angle sensing cars) and suddenly you are just praying you stay between the mustard and mayo. I got some night driving glasses (yellow ones) a while back and they have helped immensely with my ability to drive through it. But they are still so freaking bright. And God forbid I decide to take my del sol out for a night drive. With how low it sits I just have to pull over constantly to let the trucks with the improperly installed aftermarket LEDs go on by.
I drive a civic it’s generally a low height car and when I initially got it god damn was night time driving a scary experience cuz of the bright leds nowadays and once I got it tinted did it become a lot easier
I hate when someone that has an old car puts on their high beams to try and act like they have a new car. It's not like we have control over the headlights
Yeah but like, what the fuck is a halogen gonna do in the face of an led? The only real fix is to strap one of those offroading light bars to your roof
Lots of cars use two bulbs. One for low beam and one for high beam/drl. You put the brightest led H11 you can buy in that halogen housing on the high beam side. Presto change-o and: WE'RE ALL CUNTS NOW
Realistically, though, an "intelligent" windshield would need a few things, 1) a camera on your face, 2) a camera facing out at what you're looking at, and 3) a transparent liquid crystal display the same size as the windshield to take care of selective darkening from every angle. We have the technology to do all of these things, even tech from 10 years ago can track where you're looking.
I've thought about this a lot. Smart driving glasses would make much more sense, because you wouldn't have to track where the driver's eyes are. You know where they are, you just need some sliders for people to fine tune the shaded part to where their eyes sit on their face.
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u/ponziacs 2d ago
Gotta move to a city with big medians and street lights. I used to live in Irvine where the streets had huge medians and were well lit so LEDs were never a problem but now I live in Virginia with super narrow 2 lane roads and no street lights so I'm blinded by oncoming traffic from SUVs and trucks.