| ▲ | jlarocco 6 hours ago | |
As a cyclist and pedestrian, these new headlights and the cars with the "auto brights" are just terrible. When you're in another car their car's sensors might detect your headlights and dim a little bit. But as a pedestrian? You basically just get blinded - from low light right to 10000 lumens straight in your eyes. It's overpowering. Can't make them illegal fast enough, IMO. | ||
| ▲ | marcellus23 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Even if we're considering only other cars and not pedestrians, it's still pretty annoying. The brights will only turn off _after_ another car is already in their field of illumination, and only after a short delay. If you're manually managing your brights, you can almost always switch them off before another car even comes into view (by e.g. seeing their headlights approaching) | ||
| ▲ | Zak 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The obvious solution is to carry a 10000 lumen[0] flashlight and use it to trigger the auto-dim[1]. [0] Most flashlights that advertise numbers like this are lying, but a few aren't [1] This does present a risk of impairing the driver's vision | ||