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Distance doesn't matter. The intensity of light at your retina stays the same regardless of distance, aside from light loss to atmospheric haze. That's why you can't look at the sun, it's almost as bright as it is from 100 miles away
There's no reason for LED tail lights to not have diffusers just like tail lights have had for the last century
Of course distance matters. Do you think that the brightness of that LED rear drive lights would bother your eyes the same way from ten feet away versus ten miles ahead of you? Also, lets say that the LED light is as bright as the sun ten feet away from you, but you take the same light over to the moon, and then turn it on. Would this light still bother your eyes like the sun does? Now, if you make an LED light as bright and the same size as the sun, then that would be another story to talk about. Now placing that big LED light that is as big and bright as the sun, side-by-side with the sun...
Is it just me or are these light hurting your eyes? Every time I drive behind one of these suckers my eyes start to hurt and if I shift my gaze away, I see an imprint for a couple of seconds. I think they are kind of dangerous.
Yep. I despise them. Even OEM installations on new vehicles are horrible. It seems to be the new fad though, for god only knows what reason, so I guess I'll have to get used to it.
You didn't follow what I said, let me try again: government used to set standards on headlight brightness. I don't think it occurred to anyone to create super bright taillights, they used to be round and red. Marketers, working for auto makers, figured out that today's narcissistic auto customer would react positively to anti-social, gaudy features such as crazy blue headlights and "in your face" taillights. Government doesn't say no. Auto reviewers site "test data" and "studies," test subjects become early adopters, many customers buy them proving marketers correct once again, and next thing you know we're in the midst of a plague of hazardous and annoying over bright cars.
But hey, if you want to think you were smart enough to find a brighter tail lamp equipped car all on your own out of concern for your family's safety, you can.
LED taillights have been around for decades. My 1998 Explorer has an LED center high-mount stop lamp and they all came this way from the factory. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
LED taillights have been around for decades. My 1998 Explorer has an LED center high-mount stop lamp and they all came this way from the factory. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
I am certain that tailgaters have a big problem with LED taillights, specially at night and at the stop or traffic lights when they creep into the rear bumper in front
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