• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    calibration, unfortunately, only helps on smooth flat ground when aimed at stuff on the same plane

    there’s a McDonald’s drive through that I go past sometimes that is right next to oncoming traffic but 10 ft higher in elevation, and I fucking hate that thing. I just hold my horn down whenever somebody is sitting in there with blinding headlights so I can’t see if somebody is turning across my lane at the intersection just ahead. they still haven’t put something up to block headlights. maybe if more people get on the horn they’ll finally do something about it

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      2 days ago

      @mrgoosmoos @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA

      I’ve heard that most of the cars in the rest of the world have some sort of mechanism by which their lights will not shine directly at the faces of drivers in other cars. But of course here in the US we can’t have that.

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        matrix headlights are only suitable for environments where vehicles are the only other things that will be encountered, like highways

        they don’t work for pedestrians or cyclists, and they’re not quick enough to react on hilly or windy roads

        great tech for high speed highways, not appropriate pretty much anywhere else. it’s not the loss a lot of people think it is, to not have them in North America