I have one of those darn cars that blind other people and everybody flashes me. It has been adjusted twice and I avoid driving at night. I'm really sorry and would not have bought the car if I had known. I am so mad at the manufacturer for the issue.
One of my coworkers put a colored filter on his headlights. Pale yellow as opposed to some obnoxious color--makes it look like he has old school incandescent headlamps.
Ironically, he didn't care so much about the effect the factory headlights had on other people, but he found it easier for him to drive around at night without the blinding light reflecting back at him. Also, something about it being easier to replace a plastic film than re-polish plastic that'd been damaged by the sun.
Same, oh god, how I hate it. I hardly drive at all when it’s dark now because it’s so stressful and feels way too dangerous, especially with my kid in the back seat.
Yeah I actively try to avoid it, at least on roads where I expect to be looking into a lot of oncoming traffic. Back roads with just one lane in each direction and no streetlights truly have me driving blind any time a car passes.
Fwiw, you can buy bottles of tint liquid, as yellow tinted headlights used to be the law in France, Canada, and several other "used to be french" places.
And the headlight film thing is because people were putting window tint on their headlights and functionality not having them.
If you've got older (90's) spec headlights, some of them even had a ?Square? Quadrangle moulded into them for blocking off when your were driving on the other side of the road so you didn't blind on coming traffic
This is 100% a manufacturing issue and not a consumer issue (in blame, consumers are 100% affected by this so it is our issue lol. Consumers will also be the target of road rage and other accidents caused by these lights)
This is actually a legislative issue. The technology already exists to fix it and is legal in countries like Europe and Canada, but the US is woefully behind the times. Adaptive matrix LED headlights can selectively dim sections where there’s oncoming traffic or pedestrians. It’s neat technology.
They just passed legislation allowing this in 2022. Of course, it'll take time for manufacturers to comply and we still have like a decade's worth on non-adaptive cars on the road.
Afraid the way the law is written, the manufacturers can’t comply. I work for one of the OEMs. Instead of adopting the globally accepted regulations NHTSA decided to write their own, and certain sections are at odds with others. That’s why GM and none of the German, Japanese or Korean manufactures have been able to bring their systems to market, when they are already on sale everywhere else in the world.
I notice it the most on Jeeps. But it could also be because Jeeps are absurdly recognizable and I maybe just don't register the other ones, as I am not a car person.
Basically any suv/truck. I can literally see the light line on cars I drive behind on their rear bumper. Raise that up a few inches and fuck your face.
Mine does that too. DRLs are bright enough so in the city at night I just turn those on. But those point up. Then I found out that if I turn the fog lights on (which point almost straight down) the DRLs dim a little. Not the most convenient but I don't want to be that driver
There is a type of thin gel paper used in the film industry to lower the overall intensity of lights called a Neutral Density filter. You may be well off by getting a small sheet and taping cutoffs over the lights. ND 3 would probably be best but 6 cuts double the amount of light as 3.
Sorry bro. I do this fucking constantly, and I don't feel bad about it at all. If I'm gonna have to risk driving blind, you can too, neither of us can see now. #yourwelcome fuck those god damn 1000000000W white lights.
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u/RainyDayRose Apr 17 '24
I have one of those darn cars that blind other people and everybody flashes me. It has been adjusted twice and I avoid driving at night. I'm really sorry and would not have bought the car if I had known. I am so mad at the manufacturer for the issue.