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This should be a law everywhere, not just rich neighborhoods. Sodium for the win! Its way better for peoples sleep/circadian rhythms. I hate this shit that of course poor people dont deserve to sleep after they get in from their filthy streetwalking
I miss when most cars had halogens and all street lights were mostly sodium besides a few mercury lights. Night driving used to be something I actually enjoyed doing and now it’s something I despise…
What crazy is that, due to the US' outdated laws around headlights, we aren't allowed to have the best headlight technology. Matrix/Adaptive headlights can turn off just the portion of headlights aiming at other vehicles, meaning the driver gets full brights, and doesn't blind other drivers. It's the best of both worlds. It's super cool tech, but not allowed in the US. Some cars sold here even have the hardware, but have it disabled due to regulations, with the headlights just functioning as normal dumb headlights.
They are allowed now. I’m pretty sure Audi uses them in the us, and Tesla enabled theirs a year or so ago.
While I don’t entirely trust them, a lot of the time it’s pretty clear. You can watch an oncoming car with a dark spot around it, moving with the car
Are they? No way, that's cool. And yeah, I have seen videos of them in action, it's pretty neat.
That’s still assuming the detection of oncoming vehicles is good and the window/camera system is cleared and quick enough.
The auto high beams on my in-law’s new Honda doesn’t instill confidence that this will always be the case.
I'm not sure Honda has developed a system like that yet. It's mostly associated with European vehicles, from what I've seen.
There's no reason why LEDs can't mimic sodium lights, they just dont because the boomers buying them were raised on the belief that cooler and brighter is better.
Most standard street lighting comes in 4000K for some reason. It's completely dumb. I've spoken to Melbourne City council about this many times but there's a perception (an incorrect one) that 4000K feels 'safer'.
We should all be actually using PC Amber LED chips but noooooo... Too 'expensive'.
Also all LEDs should have lens optics and move away from reflectors to get a wide range of beam angles to prevent glare and other bad stuff that comes with using LEDs.
And we should also be doing proper disposal of LEDs once they die because they're essentially little computers.
... Ok, rant over.
What is it with Boomers and the ugliest light, I've been to some houses where their house was literally lit like a news studio at fucking 8 at night, like i have no idea how they ever sleep. It was beyond disturbing
Went to visit my family over the holidays and they had replaced the lights in my old bedroom (a fan with 4 sockets) with 4x 150-W-equivalent cold-as-ice LEDs. I turned the lights on and immediately was blinded.
I turned around, went to home depot, and bought 4x 40-W equivalent warm-as-possible LEDs and made the swap. We'll see what's there next time I visit - I may have started a silent war.
I fully support having loads of light in a room, four 150w equivalents sounds awesome for cleaning or working on a project, but put that shit on a dimmer, of course making sure they're dimmable LEDs. Also, of course, like 3000-4000K color temp (unless they're in a bathroom or kitchen where 5000K is acceptable imo)
My grandparents the same. I use their LED candles for light lol. Its so far the opposite of what I'm used to. I'm a Hue colored bulbs home where I constantly mess around with colors and palettes and my place is like deep dark red after 7pm. Its always an—lets call it adjustment
My mum replaced one of the two hallway lights with a cool daylight CFL, next to a warm white one.
I found it genuinely disturbing that it didn't bother her.
Wild
People just don't take the time to learn about and understand things, lighting included. Of course, it isn't helped by misleading marketing and such.
Funny how my neighborhood has sodium lamps but the poorer part has LEDs. My part of the street recently stopped lighting them at all so now I can see the stars, it's glorious
D'accord, monsieur moneybagz
Honestly it's probably because there are more government buildings in that part lol, we're equally poor generally
Thats still prestige-adjacent aha
Prestige of sharing space with tax wasting dumbasses maybe lol, it's very minor stuff though, nothing important going on there
Besides you being straightup dope 😎