Guess we should take down all the overpass sings since light will not go over 30" on the Hummer
There will always be glare,,
at 30" height placement also at 40" height placement
The new overhead signs are installed at an angle and have such high reflectivity that headlights of the average vehicle light them up. We just installed some on a project I'm working on and I was surprised that there was no electricity running to them.+
Guess we should take down all the overpass sings since light will not go over 30" on the Hummer
There will always be glare,,
at 30" height placement also at 40" height placement
There is no practical level of headlight output that will compensate for a windshield with any immediately discernible level of tint.What irks me is those vehicles with tinted front windshields and super-nova bright headlights. Both are illegal in my state but so are a whole bunch of other things the cops don't seem to have the time to bother with anymore.
+You seem to be confused
Do you even own a car?
A while back I was driving on a busy two lane highway and coming at me was a new car with modern headlights.
These were factory lights, you could tell. Also not on high beams because they would have been flashed by other drivers for sure...
It was the cooler tint and the overall sharp intensity of the beams that was a concern. Rather blinding, really from the 6000K'ish tint
It wasn't a height issue at all.
Now take your 3D model and factor in road undulation & curves for a small cluster led lamps, in cooler tint, at high Amps.
I'm half convinced at this point Virgil/Alaric is back, and trolling.
Youre not that important to either Virgil/Alaric or myself to waste time trolling. Stick to the topic.I'm half convinced at this point Virgil/Alaric is back, and trolling.
Youre not that important to either Virgil/Alaric or myself to waste time trolling. Stick to the topic.
You got me there but lets not get off topic.Interesting level of insight to the virgil/alaric situation.
I'm just proposing some ideas that may fix the current day lighting issues we face(most likely never fixed)This could be solved with those auto-blanking LEP headlights, or I guess maybe they can do it with LED arrays too. But like John Galt mentioned earlier, there's always going to be a range of lighting technologies as new improvements are marketed, but people still have working older cars. My current car only has halogen reflectors, for all trim levels offered in US, but it was made within the past 10 years. Even more annoying, the EU model of this car only has projector halogen lamps; you can't get halogen reflectors on this model. Then, I'll be driving the type of car everyone complains about getting glared by: them old non-blanking halogens.
Theory, I think you were talking about using no forward lighting at all in brightly lit places? Well, I like just leaving lights on whether in a city or not, and it's because I control the quality of light from my car, whereas most brightly lit places are lit brightly with that 589nm sodium yellow. But, it's an interesting chance to explore different ways of thinking, even if they might not be practical to implement in the real world, they can have some theoretical benefits. How about this one: just use one headlight, the passenger-side one. You'd then get the benefit of having potentially high contrast because your headlight would be illuminating the obstacle directly, but your other headlight wouldn't be there to fill in the shadow behind the object.
And yet you took the time to reply and so are alleged "them" lmao. when you directly contradict your own immediate actions, guess how it affects your own importance in the eyes of other members,Youre not that important to either Virgil/Alaric or myself to waste time trolling. Stick to the topic.
I actually do see it, those that are scraping by will never buy a new car anyway, they always drive old used, and buy a bit newer used, but those who make enough, will no longer keep that car once it is out of warranty, cuz parts price increases, service required at 60-100k is not cheap at all, and with latest cars, you generally do not want to take it to a mom and pops shop, cuz they have neither tools nor skills to diagnose modern cars. You want to take it to a authorized dealer, but their prices are out of control even more than car prices, also parts shortage still somewhat exists, it is just more expensive keep a car off the warranty, then replace one every 2-3 years.Given the increase in the price of new vehicles, combined with increasing interest rates, I don't see the average age of a registered vehicles decreasing suddenly. The opposite in fact, where those who are scraping by (and the thrifty) keep older and older vehicles on the roads. Safety issues, like visibility and glare will take second fiddle to people practical realities, namely keeping some semblance of a headlamp functioning. Current trends, like LED retrofit type bulbs (of various levels of imperfection) will make glare worse in the meantime.
I had no choice but to respond to his comment which doesn't have anything to do with headlights. Your comment has nothing to do with headlights either. Stick to the topic, man.And yet you took the time to reply and so are alleged "them" lmao. when you directly contradict your own immediate actions, guess how it affects your own importance in the eyes of other members,