Part of the issue is that people and manufacturers use shitty lights that are bright but don’t illuminate very well even though they’re so bright.
Like the difference between a nice even sound at a live concert vs old horn speakers being overdriven.
So the issue is partially shitty vehicles with mal-aimed headlights, partially shitty headlight technology, and once again also, corruption.
Might as well make it an even 1 million lumen
I think it would be funny if someone created a website for people to upload pictures of these big trucks and we all rate how gay the trucks are. Half of them already have truck nuts anyway, so they’re basically pretending to ride around in giant penises. Seems pretty gay. Biggaytrucks.com anyone?
It’s Lemmy. Create it
Replace it with with a gamma ray
Anti matter?
I always had this want to setup a small computer and a mirror on servos.
calculate where both the headlights are height wise and derrive where the driver’s eyes are and just beam their lights back into thier own eyes.
of course, then, when they hit you and the cops see the rig, you’ll get right fucked.
Not sure it’s a good idea to blind the Child Killer 5000 operator when it’s coming in your direction
Sacrifices must be made for progress.
At this point we might as well use good ol’ guns
I’ll stick to the Passenger Carrier War Bus 3000 when available. I can simply nap while you guys do sacrifice.
I no longer care. I’m sick of being blinded by LED headlights.
also, you often can’t even tell what it is that’s blinding you, so it could be a Corolla as easily as a truck
I still have fond memories of driving at night before all these bright as fuck led headlights.
I learned to drive on a 1985 jeep, and it practically had glow worms in jam jars for headlights and I never had an issue, but for some fucking reason every single car needs to be as bright as a collapsed sun.
Not to mention the people with horribly aimed headlights.
yeah, the aiming makes it worse for sure. like the lights just shouldn’t be that bright to begin with, because blinding people as they crest a hill is stupid as fuck, but there’s absolutely no call to be blinding people on flat level ground.
unfortunately people often claim that they’re fine because they’re aligned properly on flat level ground, and ignore the fact that they do not drive exclusively on flat level ground free of bumps and inclines and differences in elevation with those around them
Meh he can’t see anything at that height anyway
Yeah I’m not brave enough to do this. I’ve been in these vehicles with the people that drive them, they have no mercy for others.
I don’t know why but this initially registered as a device to save Princess Diana.
It’s probably too late
Yeah, going back in time was involved. I’m not sure why.
As a bus driver… Please no… I hate them too… But please no…
We must protect our bus drivers!
Sometimes they’ll be marked as handicap vehicles too and park there. Like, I get if you have a physical handicap that makes it tough to walk long distance, but if you can climb 2 feet to get into your giant truck, I don’t know what possible physical impairment you have. I live in an area with pavement princesses everywhere. It’s ridiculous.
Ehh, prosthetics would do it. You have a point, to a point tho. Some people are also disabled in ways that come and go. Then you have people who got disabled recently but haven’t sold the car yet for something reasonable. Then you have some where they cart around disabled family members.
Yeah, i’m totally sure 80% of jacked-up trucks with disabled tags are just hamming it, but I wouldn’t want to fuck over the 20%
And I need it installed because, “freedoms” and it helps me to “hunting for sport”. You understand…
It’s illegal in most of the US to spotlight deer, actually. You’ll need a less illegal excuse.
I didn’t say dear… The light is for when I drive my car into the lake to catch the fish. Can’t see the fish without a light. Basic science. Basic freedom
Spotlighting pedestrians
Lol definitely illegal, those are protected can’t hunt them at all!
What is a pavement princess?
This confused me too. I thought the whole meme was about the conspiracy that Princess Di was murdered, when bright lights were deliberately shone in her drivers eyes, making the car crash
Gender affirming truck.
A vehicle that is ostensibly for off-road or “heavy duty work” that never leaves the pavement/road.
Generally has mods that make it less useful for those intended purposes.
Trucks for blue collar cosplayers.
Someone actually did this near where I live - every so often I’ll see a VW Golf with four rows of lightbars mounted putting about and this is the only explaination for it I can think of
It’s for offroading or the esthetic of it.
Maybe, but it’s a slammed golf GTI that barely clears potholes, usually they go the opposite direction for that look
I really hope they turn on 1, wait for the truck to turn on their brights and then slap them with all 4.
this is pretty much what I’m going to do on my car, when I get around to it
they get the polite typical quick highbeam flash to let them know they’re blinding me. then the highbeams stay on. then they turn their highbeams on, which is noticed because the treetops are now lit up (but there is no difference in the light hitting my face). then they get multiple light bars, maybe with some strobe. idk.
idgaf. I’m sick of this shit. fuck people who drive around blinding. everybody because iT cAmE tHaT wAy. fucking sick of it.
20 years ago I had an F150. even then the newer trucks were much higher and much brighter than me. sometimes they would ride my tailgate and blind tf out of me.
my solution was to slow down. clearly they want to go around. most did, some didn’t.
my favorite memory was reducing down to 25mph in a 55mph zone outside town. they had ample time to pass before town. once inside the town limits we were cruising at a blistering 10mph in a 35mph zone.
I pulled into the gas station to fill up and they pulled in behind me. gave me dirty daggers the whole time too. I just smiled and nodded while I slowly filled my tank. eventually they came to their senses and questioned wtf they were trying to accomplish and left.
Make it point backwards too.
I can get behind this. Turn them on as revenge at the lifted truck with headlights right at the level where it makes your rear view mirror unusable if you’re in a sedan.
Yeah, you get me.
This sounds like lidar with extra steps
I’m not sure what you think lidar is…
Laser that can spin 360 degrees
Why would it need to spin 360 degrees
To work both forwards and backwards
That’s 180
…thats just backward
Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.
LIDAR is radar with lasers. You’re not using it to blind anyone. It’s a way of detecting the physical space around the sensor with a very high degree of accuracy, especially when it comes to distance.
shrug the only thing I have that employs lidar (afaik) is my vacuum robot, which has a warning to not look at the turret at ground level while it’s in motion
I don’t think what you think I think lidar means what I think you think it means
