FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights
FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights
If you dislike being blinded by extremely aggressive headlights or other LEDs, this is the place to vent or organise!
A new community where people can just vent about or actually do coordinate action against the pest of ultra bright LEDs.
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Oh, it's bullshit. It's a bunch of cockfucking bullshit.
You're sitting, waiting for the bus, trying to look down the street to see if you notice the bus coming. What do you see instead? White. Just an all encompassing blinding white light which just consumes all reality and everything you're experiencing right now.
NOW how am I supposed to know if I should be getting my bus pass out? Also, 50% chance my retinas were just singed to a crisp.
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There's a load of cars with headlights that are overly bright, but there is an even bigger epidemic of idiots driving around with high beams on as part of regular course.
In the city there is no need for those, ever. Let alone always being on.
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My problem is that I drive a low car (Ford fiesta) and most other cars are taller, this makes them way more blinding.
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Our problem is not that we drive small cars (I drive a Focus). It's that newer vehicles are enormous, usually for no reason.
Nearly every time I get on the highway, I'm tailgated by someone in some newer massive SUV where the headlights are at the same height as my rear view mirror. I don't understand why those vehicles are allowed to operate on the same roads as me. They aren't safe. By default, stock, out of the factory, they blind the other drivers in reasonable cars. I can't imagine what getting into a wreck with one would do to my car (and me in it).
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Same, and they might even have properly adjusted headlights, but as soon as they tilt up (e.g. due to a speed bump), the flashing lights make it look like they are sending me a light signal. Usually takes a few seconds until I realise they just hit a speed bump.
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it's hard to tell the two apart these days because many cars have regular headlights that are as bright as normal high beams. there have been a few times i've been mad at someone behind me with their high beams on, and then they flash their actual high beams because they're mad at me for not also speeding while blind
god, driving at night used to be so fun, now it's ruined
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I don't disagree. There are plenty of led upgrade kits that are way too bright regularly and also probably misaligned causing them to be double bad. Brighter than normal and aimed directly into your eyes.
I'm with you though, driving at night used to be a lot different and more enjoyable than it is today with all these extremely bright lights pointed at your eyes.
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I've noticed quite the influx of highbeams in recent years. I simply can't understand why though. Stupids wanting to see better, by making other's vision worse? Western Canada here, and I thought it was just me taking notice. Fuckn why??
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I mean I guess I'm stupid but I straight up can't see if there's oncoming traffic and my brights aren't on. Doesn't go for every oncoming car (if its lights are reasonable then I have no issues) but the vast majority of cars have newer, hilariously bright headlights that shine in a way where my normal lights simply don't seem to cut it.
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High beams and fog lights on a beautiful sunlit day.
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Dude YES. 20 years ago driving in the country you see some high beams in the distance and people would go back to low beams as they get around a corner or crest a hill when they see other cars.
My commute is through a lot of schools and parks and pedestrian crossings and it's somewhat poorly lit, so everyone has high beams on regardless of traffic but as a result I can't see shit. If there's oncoming cars stopped and a pedestrian tries to squeak through I literally wouldn't be able to tell.
It's gotten so bad, either people have their brights on all the time or they're not adjusted properly. In either case headlights DONT HAVE TO BE SO BRIGHT.
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Meanwhile I'm out here driving a 20 year old car with correspondingly dim headlights and need to have the highbeams on just to be able to see anything when there's oncoming traffic. My normal headlights are fine when there's nothing coming the other way, but that's not really how that's supposed to work lol. Kinda defeats the purpose of ever turning the brights off! I swear any newer car's normal lights are brighter than my brights
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I don't see how running high beams held you see when there is oncoming cars with brighter lights. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that older cars are smaller and lower?
I am not disputing new cars have higher brightness on regular lights, that absolutely is true. Though running high beams throws light both forward and up toward the oncoming drivers eyes.
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100% this; I'll see the same make a model go by, with LED lights, and it will be fine one time the next time I'll be like 🔥 MY EYES 🔥.
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!fuckyourheadlights@lemmy.world
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That's so oddly specific but I love it
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I'mma get some downvotes for this. But is this community also for the headlights of bicycles who like to shine into the face of other road users instead of illuminating the road?
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Totally, I'm commuting by bike almost every work day of the year and it's infuriating how many cyclists have their headlights misaligned.
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Oh god yes, especially now that all of them use led lights. Mine still uses an old-fashioned light, which is great when you're alone on the road because your night vision can deal with the rest. But I turn completely blind when an oncoming bike shines one of those led-lights directly in my face.
I've already ran off the path twice so far because I couldn't see where I was cycling (it was at a bicycle path through the park without street lights)
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Ugh yeah that's been an increasing problem too. I had some guy last year just as dusk was starting to set with a bike headlight blinding me on the bike trail.
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No downvotes from me. I cycle every day, it's my only mode of transportation, and the number of poorly adjusted lights on other people's bikes is staggering.
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❤️ StVZO-compliant illumination ❤️
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When there's someone behind me with their brights on, i roll down the window and hold my palm over my left mirror so they can see me blocking the light (it has never worked)
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Since you can't use your mirror anyway, just adjust it so that it reflects back at them.
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Install a rear mounted light bar to blind them back.
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I disagree with this.
A mirror of the other hand.....
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Just flash twice!! https://lyricsintosong.ai/music/02a3d10d-b96b-42e4-b839-8d73adeffb97
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I recently had a high beam tailgating me. I moved my side and rearview mirrors to reflect it back and he passed me on a double yellow line with him in front of me I just turned on my own high beams. He turned off soon after but I hope it made his day a little more frustrating ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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perhaps there could be an automatic mirror to handle this for you. that'd be a good project
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That's the kind of freedom I love not to have in Europe (it's regulated).
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I'm from Europe and headlights suck here too! It's spectrum of LEDs and tall cars and probably bad regulations too.
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Yes, some specific cars and lights are surprisingly bad, but in general it's not comparable to the US. Maybe also depends on the specific country, too, of course.
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Some cars now even have break lights that shine brighter than the light of a thousand suns. I don't get it, there ought to be some regulation for this. This is Germany speaking.
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What?
Seems heavily country v dependent then.
But there def is regulation (even candles at different distances) & technically a car isn't road worthy if its blinding oncoming traffic.
I haven't seen it much enforced by the cops, just by the mandatory scheduled road-worthiness checkups.
Also, how tf is automatic headlight leveling not standard equipment? It has been on the market for like 20 years now (& I think we need it bcs of people, not bcs that lil 1-5 scroll switch of the olden days wasn't sufficient ... do people not see their own lights shining in peoples faces?).
However I do wish cops would regularly stop & fine people (foreigners :)) with misaligned headlights (the needed equipment is ez & smol, tho level ground is needed) ... or those fuckers cruising with fog lights "bcs it looks sporty" or whatever.
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It technically is in the US as well, but this is a corrupt, late stage Capitalist shithole, so, no one with power cares.
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I drive a van, so I could easily be the culprit. I therefore make a habit of adjusting my beam dip appropriately. Apparently that is unusual enough for them to note they had been adjusted in the service. There's literally a dial on the dashboard. You're SUPPOSED to adjust them to the vehicle and road conditions! Apparently not having them set to max is now considered a "fault" to fix!
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Now this is a community I can get behind, like a lifted pickup truck tailgating with his LED high beams on.
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I still get mad about this aftermarket center high beam. way more blinding in person than the photo, also makes it impossible to see the plates
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That is definitely "please ticket / pull me over officer"
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The main issue I see comes from regular headlights being replaced with LEDs and other High-Intensity bulbs. Don't get me wrong, Bubba with his lift kit is just redneck high-beams, but I get more frequent glare from someone in a Sentra who decided to put LEDs in her stock headlight assembly that wasn't made for LEDs.
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My car's headlights blind me sometimes when they reflect off road signs. I tried to find warmer replacements, but it seems like that's just not a thing
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Yeah, I guess that's one part of the problem. It's not like most people care that much. But if that's the only replacement lights you can get... :/
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I recently rented a car from SIXT, a BMW SUV - it was one of their rideshare cars, it was nearest to me, just so you know it was not my choice.
It auto-aligned lights to just slightly blind everyone in front of me. It also had tinted rear windows, wonder why. As a cherry on top, the navigation software made it impossible to anticipate off-ramps, so it had you switch multiple lanes at the last moment.
I think I understand a bit more about why BMW drivers suck.
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As a Tesla driver (yeah yeah) I’ve noticed in my heavily-Tesla area that 80% of the time when I think someone might have their highbeams on but it’s borderline that it’s a Tesla. It makes me uncomfortable about how bright my own lights are to others. My only consolation is that my car is 6+ years old, so there’s a (slim) chance that the new cars that are being rolled off the line are more poorly aligned than my own. Anyway I don’t know what I could do about it regardless.
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Yes ! I hate these as well!
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You know how solar eclipse glasses allow you to see the sun surface without any glare by essentially reducing the light by like 50,000 times?
You can also point the glasses at a regular light to see the bulb.
I need the same thing that let's me check really quick if some scrub has their high beams on so I can reflect their blinding light of death back at them because I'm too nice to do the same against morons who threw nuclear bombs into their regular low beam enclosure.
Although I am also very close to buying a rally high beam light array to do the light equivalent of telling people to shut up.
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So I drive an Old car (Audi 80 build 1994) and it's so annoying when people behind me drive with an automatic High beam. My front and rear lights aren't as bright as newer cars so their car detects me way to late and blinds me every time there is no oncoming traffic. Sometimes I then start turning my bright foglight (on the back) on to make thier car think I'm closer.