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Why on earth would you need high beam settings for them? Okay, a little facetious. Still, they are pretty damn bright already. And the high beams are blindingly bright. So, I'm just wondering, out of curiosity, why anyone considerate of others and for the safety of those around them would drive on the freeway with the HIGH BEAMS ON and blinding every one? I really don't like nanny proofing cars. But perhaps there is an argument for some sort of impossible to ignore warning or automatic shutoff of the LED HEADLIGHT HIGHBEAMS when the car realizes that other cars are nearby that would blinded by them. Friggin idiots. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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Often it is rather idiots who don’t bother to aim their newly installed lights properly. I have HID low beams and LED high beams; I made sure they were properly aimed. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I've nearly been in several collisions due to these new headlights and more than once had to pull over and nearly stop because I couldn't see. I attribute some of it to older eyes and worsening cataracts, but I know younger folks who have issues with them as well. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I have 4 high power auxiliary LED lights on the front of my Jeep. Where I drive, I want all the light I can get! Do I turn them on when I am in traffic? Nope! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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For real? |
I have LED headlights (factory) and the car has an automatic high beam function which actually works very well. Sometimes it does mistake streetlights on a hill as an oncoming car and will dim the headlights back to normal. There's actually no "high beam bulb" in my car. The same module does both. I do see people that install "LED" bulbs into their halogen spots and don't aim it correctly. Not minority enough! | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Toyotas in particular seem to have obnoxiously nasty harsh bright LED's which are IMO brighter on regular beam than most cars are on high beam. I can always tell when it's a Toyota behind me now because they are SO stinking bright | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Chowser noted that his car had an auto-dimming headlight feature. So does mine, and I thought most cars had it nowadays. Serious about crackers | |||
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| Not as lean, not as mean, Still a Marine  |
Many newer cars do have auto-dimming high beams, but the drivers of the older cars that "upgrade" their bulbs to try and get the same brightness are mostly to blame. Older car headlight bezels don't have the cutoff to prevent the bright light from shining above hood height. Very few of the aftermarket LED bulbs have the shielding to prevent it either. A good rule of thumb is that if your low beams are bright enough to illuminate the tree branches overhanging the road, they are bight enough to blind oncoming traffic. I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
My issue is that the regular beam on a whole lot of these newer cars is as bright or maybe even brighter than high beams on older cars. I see it online in discussions on the new Honda HR-V that people are getting flashed a lot by oncoming drivers who think they're being assholes and driving with their high beams on when in fact it's just their regular headlights are now insanely bright. There seems to be no standards or regulation as to what is considered too bright and hazardous to other drivers. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
High beams are useless in the city and in suburbia. Their true use is out in the country where you don't want to out drive your headlights. Around here the 2 lane state highways in the country tend to be 70 mph and the farm to market 2 lane roads tend to be 55 mph. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agreed. Then there are the jacked up trucks with a bank of lights coming at you. It is not just an age issue. | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
Yes, they are usually brighter, but their cutoff (upper edge of illumination) is usually also sharper when facing traffic and a bit higher on the right to illuminate street signs. My Mazda CX-30 has an automatic setting which switches between low and high beams depending on lighting conditions...it is sometimes fooled by streetlights and will dim. As already mentioned, it is likely the worst offenders are folks who don't have the headlights correctly aligned/adjusted No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
A couple of posts have mentioned the auto-dimming feature that is common in newer cars. It's a great feature, but it doesn't do much good if the oncoming driver has not selected that headlight mode. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, I just replaced two low beams on my A6. The entire front of the car had to come off. Just under $900.00. | |||
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Itchy was taken |
Mine has auto dim, but I have it set to off. I almost never get to use the brights given oncoming traffic. It's a Toyota (Lexus) and the low beam upper cutoff works well. _________________ This space left intentionally blank. | |||
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Quit staring at my wife's Butt |
my stock 2018 ford f150 led are bright enough that I get flashed all the time, when I flash them back with my high beams I'm sure they don't like it, but I get tired of it. | |||
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| Not as lean, not as mean, Still a Marine |
XLT, is your truck fully stock? I see a lot of trucks that get "leveling kits" to even out the unloaded stance. A big issue with trucks like this are the lights are almost never adjusted to aim back down after changing the angle of truck. My Nissan has a "dipper" for the headlights, Position 0 is unloaded, position 1 is 25% loaded, 2 50% loaded, 3 is over 75% loaded. You can actually see the cutoff line move down as you change the setting. If your truck is fully stock, it might be worth checking the aim of your lights in case the rear end is starting to sag a bit. That might cut down on the oncoming flashers. I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. | |||
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Res ipsa loquitur |
Agreed with OP. The highbeams on my 2024 GMC Sierra AT4, which has a factory lift, are bright enough to light up the entire freeway. __________________________ | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
I realize that this is not a technical forum and do not wish to hijack the OP's thread. I run about 20,000 lumens at night. Since the lights and light patterns are properly adjusted, I'm not blinding any of my fellow motorists and don't get flashed by oncoming traffic.This message has been edited. Last edited by: .38supersig, | |||
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You missed the phase when cars had two separate headlights, one low beam and one high beam. You replaced the whole headlight, not just the bulb. Or more accurately, the whole headlight WAS the bulb. They had them in round and rectangular versions. Man, I'm old! Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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