The cybertruck is so poorly designed, if it wasn’t legally mandated for vehicles to have headlights, those ugly things would have a night vision HUD projection on the
windshielddash screen and nothing else, allowing those IN the vehicle to see, but not allowing anyone else to see the truck at night.‘You turned the HUD on while it rained. Sorry buddy, but that’s why grandpa burned alive in the back seat.’
If you need lights that have more lumens then the sun to drive at night, you shouldn’t be allowed to drive at night
In their defense, whenever they turn it on, it’s no longer night
Fear my alpha photons.
Theywill annilate your puny beta photons.
That cyberjunk inadvertently (probably) like like it’s already been in a fender bender, judging by the huge dent and crumple patterns.
It all started going down hill when they got rid of the foot switch for high beams.
Man, I remember those.
After only owning/driving them for 20+ years, I finally just swapped from a manual to an automatic. Suddenly want to see if there’s an aftermarket kit to make a foot switch work for my car. I mean, my left foot has to do something
I refuse to give up manual transmissions.
I’ve decided I’ll compromise and give it up for an EV, probably for my next car, assuming I can get a Chinese one (would have never expected to say something like that just a few years ago).
Though maybe if my current car dies before I can do that I’ll try to get a pre-18 MT something or another. Something without touch screens and outside connections other than AM/FM radio.
Though the kid inside me also wants a fun car since I can now afford it might just rent a Ferrari or something for a few laps around a track to get that out of my system. Probably an or something since the top end cars don’t even come with MT anymore. I don’t even care that stick shift isn’t peak performance anymore, it’s more fun and using a clutch is engaging (heh).
I’ve owned an 2012 Nissan Leaf and I currently drive a 2017 Kia Soul EV. I will never go back. Those Chinese cars are awesome, though (too bad can’t get them in US). I live in Hawai’i, on O’ahu, where longer range is not needed. My Kia still gets about 125 miles to a charge (if I finesse how I drive and don’t run the A/C) and I can go from one side of the island and back on that. But I had the Leaf when I lived in Florida and it got maybe 50 miles to a charge and that was… well, I learned about “range anxiety” with that one.
What I really dislike about the newer US EVs is that they are, increasingly, enormous. My Kia Soul is perfect. But the US is obsessed with every vehicle being the size of a studio apartment for some reason.
Did the Leaf come from the factory with a 50mi range? That’s whack, I remember seeing an eGolf with like 75mi while I was car shopping last year and couldn’t believe that would work for anyone who drives any appreciable amount of time or distance.
The car I ended up with (2021 Polestar 2) has a nominal ~230mi range and that still feels pretty low compared to newer vehicles with 300+mi ranges.
No. I think it might have had around 100 miles when new (it was a 2012 model, one of the first EVs on the market after the Saturn fiasco covered in Who Killed the Electric Car?), but I bought it when I was at the dealership to look at a used vehicle (Nissan Frontier) and there was a Leaf there for $4000. My entire equation was: I’d like an EV+Here’s a used EV+It’s way cheaper than the truck I was test-driving=I’m buying the used EV. I did no research on battery capacity, etc. going entirely into the purchase cold. Apparently like 40% of the cells were spent. But I really only needed the car to get me around town, so it was perfect for that. It also taught me how to effectively drive an EV for maximum battery usage (which works great for my current car).
What they’ve done with battery capacity in the last five years is incredible. My 2017 Kia was ~125 when new (but purchased in 2020 and battery was down to about 95 miles). I had some manufacturer related issues, so I wound up getting a brand new electric motor and battery in the car, significantly jumping up the range of the vehicle (but they never reset the calculator, so it’s a bit of a guessing game. When fully charged it says I have between 96-100 miles, but I’ve got it to 126 with a bit to spare, never once going into “turtle mode” or anything like that). But, again, since I live on a not-very-big island, I don’t need more range than this. What would be nice is if there was better EV charging infrastructure (and not needing twelve different apps). More chargers would make range-anxiety on older EVs nonexistent, but I’m sure that since Big Oil is now investing in chargers they want to try and pull an Apple/Samsung and steer everyone toward having to buy newer cars more often.
Yeah, I still feel the same, but car was scratching at 20 years old and maintenance was becoming more than I have time for these days. So swapped to an (almost) new hybrid.
I regret it almost every day (not that the hybrid is bad; its just not the same feel. Plus all these newfangled sensors are a bitch).
My 2006 xB is too modern for me. I’m looking for a late 80s pickup. I want carburetors again.
Have been contacting different places about 3500k lights for my vehicle but they all just go “what do you mean? Halogen?”
JFC, 3500k colour is possible in LED, halogen, any light. They just don’t want to make/sell them.
This is just a post
my bad
Its alright. That just means its too good for this place.
it’s ok, I’m pooping right now, so it is still a shitpost.
What’s up with that?
Audi gave the world this nice upgrade. They also find out people hate it. So they have developed a new headlight that give some kind shadow to other cars. Hopefully this will be a new law for led light.
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Those idiotic LED matrix lights keep conveniently missing the wing mirrors of cars in front when casting their shadow
Arsehole lights for arsehole cars for arsehole people, I guess.
There was a well established and very simple technology for not blinding other traffic. High beam and low beam, with a manual switch. No myriad of sensors and computers that do a worse job than any driver with just half a brain and some small remainder of decency.
any driver with just half a brain and some small remainder of decency
Those are getting more scarce too.
Unfortunately, they do. People seem to think because of all the assistance systems in modern cars, they don’t need to pay attention anymore. My daily commute on a narrow country road with largely no centre line has become a harrowing adventure in the past couple years. Idiots are increasingly driving in the middle of, or even on the wrong side of the road. These days even a solid centre line is becoming a mere suggestion.
The worst thing the car industry ever did was turn our vehicles into mobile living rooms.
I still stand firm that driving should be mildly uncomfortable and loud with the intention of keeping you focused.
Every car has auto high beams now, and I gotta wonder what the folks living on country roads think about thousands of cars flashing their lights for the split second there’s no oncoming traffic.
we hate it. fucking hate it. it’s so goddamn offensive for people to be lighting up the night sky like that when their already way more bright than necessary lowbeams do just fine
God my wife’s car has that and I hate it-
And don’t forget that people outside of cars exist which are missed 100% of the time
The cars don’t miss the people outside of the car 100% of the time, unfortunately.
Point your side view mirrors lower and out more? They are to see your sides, the rear view covers the behind.
If they’re set properly, it shouldn’t be reflecting cars behind you into your eyes.
You’re supposed to be able to rely entirely on your side mirrors, the rear view is for quick glances, it’s honestly not a great mirror
This poster loves blindspots.
How does this make blind spots? You still see just the edge of your vehicle.
Oooohh weee! What’s up with that? What’s up with that?!
It’s like puffing up your chest to look impressive, but for cars
I’m wondering if this is due to the fact that so many politicians (and, thus, members of regulatory bodies) are OOOOLLLLLLD and need the night to look like the inside of an Apple Store in order to drive.
I think strong lights are needed… I have two cars, one old and one new. Im afraid to drive the old one when its dark because its impossible to see anything.
May not be a popular opinion but thats how it is.
so slow down
my 2008 with halogens does perfectly fine
one day someone like me is going to drive head-on into you because we can’t see shit because of your asshole headlights
The asshole headlights do less blinding than most 80s and 90s halogens, because the asshole lights have projectors whereas the halogens just shoot whereever the fuck.
didn’t realize 80/90s blinding and 2020 blinding were the only options
too bad there isn’t a happy medium somewhere around 2010
Modern lights are still less likely to blind you because you may adjust your low beam to spec, but most people don’t and halogens typically don’t have auto adjustment and many even aim them high because they don’t get how low beams are supposed to work.
Also I find that people with halogens or burnt out xenons take longer to switch off their high beams.
The LEDs that blind you are most likely illegal retrofits or lifted trucks. Proper LED lights have very clear low beam cutoffs and multibeam LEDs will literally cut other cars out of their beams.
your premise that the cutoff works well enough is incorrect
source: my fucking life
I’m blinded by “properly aimed” stock LEDs all the fucking time. roads aren’t flat. and they’re bumpy. hills exist. different elevations exist.
and your point about multibeam LEDs just proves my point more because it completely ignores non-vehicles
You can’t see anything because you’re blinded by the other’s lights I assume?
I have an older car and feel like I can’t see far enough in front of me, but half the cars driving towards me have lights that blind me. So I’m torn on how I feel about this.
Yeah. It also matters if you have a taller car. Its not fun being in a smaller one…
