Car lights are blindingly bright now.
Manufacturers have even remounted them so they "float" and when you hit a bump they point up for a moment. Makes for fun times on rough roads.
People won't slow down at night, either.
Manufacturers have even remounted them so they "float" and when you hit a bump they point up for a moment. Makes for fun times on rough roads.
People won't slow down at night, either.
So I think maybe you're right, it's actually gotten harder to see pedestrians
I imagine it's mostly the "fuck you" self-absorbed entitlement that leads to willfully distracted driving in general, but in addition, brighter lights may be encouraging this, even though they do not help anyone see when they are being blinded by other lights.
Is that what could explain a big part of the US vs Europe difference? Does Europe have headlight regulations the US doesn't?
I'm kind of shocked the article doesn't even mention headlights as a possibility at all.
Especially when the divergence starts around 2012, the exact year it says that adaptive headlights became available in Europe.
I've only seen or heard of it comeing up twice. The first time, my ex wife got a 'fix it' ticket because the body shop replaced a headlight but angled it wronger than wrong.
The second time, a coworker had a busted headlight cover, got a fix-it ticket, and replaced it with a gatorade bottle creatively ziptied. He did intimate that it took a couple tries to get it right (due to the form of repair, they tried to use as much of the statue as possible to deny it was fixed.)
To say this was a short-sighted (no pun intended) design is an understatement.