Bright Lights, Big city, BIG PROBLEMS.

[toolmanmike]

@Slantsixdan, what say you Mr. Stern?

 

[Detective D]

LED's are Light Pollution

Light pollution Emitting Diodes I don't have anything against them really. But the way thee tech has been applied is driving me nuts lately. They take much less power to run. I get that, that was the whole big deal with them. I think they have usefull applications. I don;t think headlights...

www.forbbodiesonly.com

 

[David Womby]

We live in a new world, where bigger isn't necessarily better. We spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel.

I agree but it seems a lot of folks still do believe bigger is better

David

 

[Hey-O]

I agree but it seems a lot of folks still do believe bigger is better

David

It's only that way because we're led to believe it. Ask a real woman, she'll tell you style trumps bigger every time.

 

[YY1]

There's also been a trend here for big trucks (semis and dump trucks) to have light bars including dancing, flashing, chasing lights in white, yellow and even green all over the front ends, mostly on the dash, behind the windshield.

 

[Coelacanth]

For me, the opposite situation is just as bad nowadays. With "modern" cars all having automatic daytime running lights, nobody has a friggin' clue how to TURN ON their damn headlights when it's dark outside. Practically every commute home at night, I see at least one car driving along with no taillights on, just the front DRL's dimly glowing. I don't know what the problem is with current engineering, or maybe it's the idiots behind the wheel, but back in the old days, if it was DARK, you TURNED ON YOUR LIGHTS. It seems like a major design brain-fart to have cars with some kind of sensor for ambient lighting fail to detect when it's NIGHT and leave all the lights off except for the DRL's...

 

[Hey-O]

For me, the opposite situation is just as bad nowadays. With "modern" cars all having automatic daytime running lights, nobody has a friggin' clue how to TURN ON their damn headlights when it's dark outside. Practically every commute home at night, I see at least one car driving along with no taillights on, just the front DRL's dimly glowing. I don't know what the problem is with current engineering, or maybe it's the idiots behind the wheel, but back in the old days, if it was DARK, you TURNED ON YOUR LIGHTS. It seems like a major design brain-fart to have cars with some kind of sensor for ambient lighting fail to detect when it's NIGHT and leave all the lights off except for the DRL's...

I haven't turned my lights on in 20 plus years, it's set on auto. They come on when the wipers are turn on also. It was created for those that are totally not paying attention.

 

[Coelacanth]

I can't count the number of times I see cars driving at night with no taillights and only dim DRL's on...and I know it's not because they have both taillights out because it's so commonplace. It just seems appalling to me that a car could be even designed to have that issue happen, where the vehicle will be allowed to drive around in the dark, at highway speeds even, with nothing but DRL's working, and no notification to the driver. If it's a dark colored car and the roads are icy, which they often are up north here, it wouldn't take much for you to plow into one of these vehicles before you realize there's a car in front of you.

 

[Jeff Peterson]

Emergency vehicles are the worst!

And those damn tow trucks!