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Its (like many things) mostly the us's fault. A slide away from rules into vibe based everything.
I remember a long time ago when I was first getting my license you had to pass a headlight test where you parked in a spot and there where painted lines on a wall for both high and low beams. It was how you adjusted your lights and was common in Canada. Now no one even knows what I am talking about. The rules are still there but no one enforces them and most forgot they can even adjust their lights (not sure new cars and trucks can be anymore).
Manufacturers in North America are now putting their lights so high up on vehicles and use such bright piercing lights on everything that night driving has become a nightmare. The answer to getting blinded is now to out blind others, its madness.
I love that people are asking me if I have some kind of visual deficiency when the phenomenon of blinding lights is so common that it's in the simpsons from 27 years ago lol
And those are "only" halogen. It's gotten much worse since then. Like you said, a sort of arms race.
I mean they also say "high intensity" which implies HIDs rather than halogens to me, and those require a clear cutoff unlike halogens/incandescents.
Its gotten to a point that seems impossible, just full clown world. Its gotten to the point that my favorite car to drive at night is my Fiero, because I am so low I am below most of the blinding lights.
It's also common with European cars, which are much lower and yet have increasingly bright (and bluer?) lights.
The brightness is an issue, but the placement and angle are the bigger problem. Its the slippery slope of following american trends. Years ago Mercedes Benz (I think) put out a car that used IR light and a heads up screen (no visible headlights, just running lights) showing the driver the night landscape without needing to blind everyone. It was banned in the states, no real reason why but the idea went dead.
Was it banned in other countries too, or is there some other reason it isn't used?
Cost, probably
Mercedes put it in the S-Class, their flagship. They can afford fancy extras there.
Makes sense.
Not sure, but the tech is old and tested (almost all cold war era things used IR lights). The issue is I think they can sell the super terrible bright lights as "safety" features. And a lot of consumer trends are american based and just forced on the world.
A German auto company isn't going to pull a safety feature from the EU, South American, and Asian markets just because it's banned in the US.
No but they will not also pursue one that is not allowed in the us market as hard. But then again times are a changin.
I think you're over estimating the amount of influence the US auto market has had.
*had
And it was eminence. But maybe with their fall we can get cool IR cars again.
Are you correcting my post or yours? I was speaking in the past tense.
Oh no, just agreeing on the tense. Hope that it stays that way.
I'm still not sure we're in agreement, but maybe we are? I'm saying the US auto market has never had enough influence to block a cost-effective safety feature from appearing on foreign markets. Another person pointed out that the IR HUD was used on a luxury car and the high cost probably prevented its widespread use.
It did appear, but never went main stream. The cost was high, but like projector bulbs if mainstream produced the cost would come down.
Of course the cost would come down (slightly) if a new tech goes mainstream, but you don't think an IR HUD could become as cheap as regular headlights, do you?
Without actual headlights I'm certain someone would pull out in front of you, people are dumb
Running lights are a thing, and I see enough people driving with only them at night now.
UV scare. They had to use UV lights to make it work. But they weren't on the same wavelength as say a tanning bed but people made a noise about it anyways.
No IR not UV. Not the same wavelength UV and IR are on the opposite sides of the visual spectrum.
This is so cool…I wish this would have taken off. I had to find some videos to see what you were talking about in action so I’m sharing here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/pxUod6Sx5w8
https://youtube.com/shorts/sg0pG0V3JIE
This third one in rain is wild:
https://youtube.com/shorts/YXQYoYc6E7c
It is proven tech! It was used in WW2 for shits sake!