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LED headlights are too bright - Fritz - 04-18-2024 America’s Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright - WSJ dunno if this link will get thru WSJ, but the artcile may be posted elsewhere. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/car-led-headlights-too-bright-safety-driving-df0dd05e?mod=hp_featst_pos5 Re: LED headlights are too bright - ztirffritz - 04-18-2024 I actually had LED headlights that were recalled because they were too bright. I don't think it's that they're actually too bright, but they're a narrow wavelength of light and our eyes don't like that. It's not normal to see a single wavelength of light. Re: LED headlights are too bright - Fritz - 04-18-2024 the focus is what annoys me. I have filtered glasses I wear for night driving, but the fkn SUV lamps are so much higher that even the low beams get me in the eyes. My next car is a Peterbuilt Re: LED headlights are too bright - Acer - 04-18-2024 The key is the housing, directing the light away from oncoming drivers. The reflective housing designs have not kept up with the increased output of the lamps, compounded by the narrow wavelength. It's especially bad when someone puts an aftermarket LED in a housing designed for halogen. But then there's headlights that are just a row of LEDS, I don't know if designers are even trying to properly direct those. Re: LED headlights are too bright - Ombligo - 04-18-2024 It really is a combination of a few things making the sum of the whole more than the sum of the individual parts. LEDS are brighter, headlights were designed for dimmer halogens, SUV's and trucks are higher. The first two issues are a problem, but add in the third and it is impossibly dangerous. There should be aftermarket headlight housings to replace those made for halogens, but carmakers have made the housings in shapes that make it all but impossible to do economically - The Ford Fusion cost is $2000, and that doesn't include the labor to pull body panels. Re: LED headlights are too bright - mrbigstuff - 04-18-2024 Fritz wrote: in Europe *(and probably other parts of the world) there are regulations about the height of lamps from the ground on the front of vehicles. but that would impinge on *Freedom!* and so we don't have that same regulation here. freedom isn't free, as the saying goes. Re: LED headlights are too bright - ztirffritz - 04-18-2024 In Europe, LED matrix lights are starting to become popular. They allow the headlights to reactively dim cells so that oncoming traffic isn't blinded. I believe that they are, or were until recently, illegal in the US though. I know Tesla was installing them on Model Ys made in Berlin. I think Audi has been pushing them for a decade or so. Re: LED headlights are too bright - gabester - 04-18-2024 I feel like a smart reflector that can focus and direct overly bright headlights back at the vehicle using them would be a great invention. I think it's pretty much pervasive on new SUVs and trucks, the majority of new cars on the road, I think that many of the auto manufacturers themselves are using LED bulbs in housings originally intended for halogens they were just too lazy/cheap to redesign. As for aftermarket, yeah, no way people who are are thoughtless enough to just get the lights as bright as possible are going to spend the dough to get new housings that will direct their illumination away from other drivers. Re: LED headlights are too bright - kj - 04-18-2024 My xenon’s were “too bright “ too. I’m afraid it’s always going to require some compromising. Re: LED headlights are too bright - Buzz - 04-18-2024 "I feel like a smart reflector that can focus and direct overly bright headlights back at the vehicle using them would be a great invention." Exactly why I taped a handheld mirror on the back of the driver's side mirror. Baby steps. == |