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That's pretty neat, but I don't know if I want my headlights reliant on the accuracy of a camera and sensors. I think I'd prefer some sort of hybrid between night vision, thermal imaging, and auto-dimming heads-up-display.
Well, that person sure was short sighted. Your thread topic uses a broad brush....the same broad brush the HID forever person uses.
I enjoy my HID rebuilds of the existing halogens on m '07 Tacoma. Wasn't cheap, but they used top brands for the projectors and other parts.
I'm well aware of findings on human vision and optimum color temp. That said, I chose to go higher color temp because they look neat. Not violet, but definitely a hint of blue in the white. Less light that I can use, but certainly enough for my purposes, at 6K (a "crystal white"). Most standard HID are about 4.5K, white with a hint of yellow.
No one but chickenhead kids driving JPN cars with annoying pipes says "this" or "that" is "da bom" or whatnot, pretty clearly. I don't give a ___t what anyone thinks of my JPN truck, frankly: it drives very well, I did a butt-busting 1,150 mile drive day in in once (seven years ago), and it seldom if-ever breaks now at 114K miles from new. Lighting tech seems to be evolving rapidly, too, paying attention to trends.
In terms of raw tech, '15 911s had all-LED as an expensive options. It's still expensive, at-current, but less-so vs. back then; thus, the tech must be trickling down and economy of scale taking over. I know little of laser lights.
Dont these high intensity lights blind oncoming drivers?
I think the point of the video is that it recognizes cars and dims some of the lights pointed at the cars, but not all of them.
I don’t think most led lights do this however.
When self driving cars are more developed, perhaps they can drive on night vision alone and not use headlights at all.
Dont these high intensity lights blind oncoming drivers?
Yes, but no one cares.
The truth is that there is an escalating arms race in night time lighting that completely disregards how the human eye works in low light conditions. The more light and glare you throw out there, the more everyone's pupils contract, and the more difficult it becomes to see anything that is not directly illuminated. The solution is to go back to more reasonable levels of brightness, but no one will accept that.
I much prefer the Advanced LED lights in my BMW to the Xenons/HIDs I had in the Audi before it. LED lights are fantastic. And no, they aren't blinding oncoming drivers.
I've noticed in the past few years headlights from oncoming cars way too bright,used to be i'd assume they had their brights on by mistake but giving them a quick flash these days just gets you a face full of even brighter lights. i find the factory headlights in my Toyota work just fine .
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