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I do wonder if the ones who have no issues are the ones in suvs 
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.Is it time to ban LED Headlights
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Soldato
I have a M235i and have never been dazzled.I do wonder if the ones who have no issues are the ones in suvs
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Being Des, I've driven a fair few other peoples' SUVs and still had the same issues.I do wonder if the ones who have no issues are the ones in suvs
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I don't mind the LEDS, as long as they are angled correctly and they are not on full beam. I find it better than muppets with full beam halogens.
Headlight glare: Berkshire study to shed light on impact
A specialist car will have instruments installed to measure light levels from oncoming headlights.
www.bbc.co.uk
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That'll be because you drive a beemer and are real close to the car in front
(/s incase it wasn't obvious). I saw a yellow headlight (not sure if car LEDs come on that colour, and it looked as though it was come out at 90 degrees as I was perpendicular to the car and it was bright).
Soldato
When I'm driving it is rare there is anything in front of meThat'll be because you drive a beemer and are real close to the car in front
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Is this based on anything tangible or is it just something you've decided?
There is a bit of correlation between myopia and poor night vision. Quick Google will spit out plenty of articles.
Vision with glasses is also poorer than without glasses - ask any wearer that has also tried contact lenses and they'll confirm it. Not to mention peripheral vision and the like where glasses are always worse than contacts or when glasses needed.
Of course this is for those who truly need glasses and would be a danger driving without them - I reckon that is probably around -1 maybe - 1.50 at a push. Driving with anything below that such as - 2 or - 3 is alarm bells kind of danger, only getting worse with the prescription. Aka the moderate to high prescriptions.
Those who have - 0.50 prescriptions are of course less impacted as a perfectly healthy person can have that kind of distorsion after a long enough day and when sleep deprived.
Source - wearing glasses growing up, getting lasered later on and thus experiencing both 'worlds'.
Vision with glasses is also poorer than without glasses - ask any wearer that has also tried contact lenses and they'll confirm it. Not to mention peripheral vision and the like where glasses are always worse than contacts or when glasses needed.
Of course this is for those who truly need glasses and would be a danger driving without them - I reckon that is probably around -1 maybe - 1.50 at a push. Driving with anything below that such as - 2 or - 3 is alarm bells kind of danger, only getting worse with the prescription. Aka the moderate to high prescriptions.
Those who have - 0.50 prescriptions are of course less impacted as a perfectly healthy person can have that kind of distorsion after a long enough day and when sleep deprived.
Source - wearing glasses growing up, getting lasered later on and thus experiencing both 'worlds'.
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Soldato
Ugh I've got the standard LED headlights on my 3 series and they suck.
I feel like it's still just dark everywhere when they're on.
My eyes feel so strained when I get out the car after a drive in the dark, compared to the ID 7 which basically turns night into day.
I feel like it's still just dark everywhere when they're on.
My eyes feel so strained when I get out the car after a drive in the dark, compared to the ID 7 which basically turns night into day.
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i got some 30000LM 90W bulbs to match them.
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Their factory alignment is bad. You can adjust it via the screen, however you don't get a "live" view of the headlights - that is, they flip to a service pattern which has certain sections illuminated which are then used (with proper wall markings) to set each headlight correctly. In this service pattern, it also gets rid of the 1% dip required for all EU cars, so you're always left with a best guess of where the light will actually end up when you come out of the service adjustment and go back to normal headlights. To make matters even worse, until a recent software update, going back into the service menu to slightly adjust the headlight again reset all of your previous adjustments, so you'd have to remember how many clicks of the scroll wheel up/down and left/right you'd done previously - absolute pain in the arse to be honest.
I've adjusted the lights on my Model Y very considerately now, and it looks like a normal beam pattern that only flicks above reg plates of the cars in front as I go over bumps. A further recent update that enabled the matrix/dynamic headlight seems to have helped a lot more too - I'm guessing the standard dipped beam pattern was adjusted slightly.
EDIT: Also, you don't need an apostrophe before the "s" when you make something into a plural
one Telsa, two Teslas.
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I have philips ones in both my cars for several years and both have passed multiple MOT's.
Unless the pattern is terrible or they flicker, the tester wont go looking to see what they are.
Another plus is the Megane used to blow bulbs every few months, and these have now been in 2 years with no issues!
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(pedant modeEDIT: Also, you don't need an apostrophe before the "s" when you make something into a plural
) but IF he meant he finds the LED lights of Teslas the worst then the apostrophe would seem appropriate then(because the lights belong to the Tesla)
on a serious note i would not have the 1st clue how to align my lights. I thought they self adjusted in modern cars but i am truly ignorant it seems.
(on the bright side i have not been flashed in either of our cars aside from the 1 time i did forget to dip the lights in the wife's car.
(I did get flashed in my yellow fiat coupe once....... but that was different
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I dont understand why they made day light running lights a legal requirement but not the rear lights. The amount of numpties you come accross with only DLR lights on and no rear lights when its dark is amazing!
That's why I said "...when you make something into a plural"(pedant mode
(because the lights belong to the teslas)
and in your example, it should be "...Teslas' LED lights" "Wow, that Tesla's lights were bright" - said just after a single Tesla goes past and blinds you
"I find all Teslas' lights to be blinding" - blanket statement about all Tesla vehicles
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The apostrophe should have indicated that was the intent anyway…
I think that rather than banning brigher headlights we should be asking why LED street lighting is so dim and poor that we need cars with brighter headlights.....
Street lights were way brighter (and car lights much dimmer) a couple of decades ago!
Street lights were way brighter (and car lights much dimmer) a couple of decades ago!
If they’re in reflector headlamps it’s super easy to see, not so much in projector lamps.
It’s not hard to tell when someone has fitted them though.