On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist
Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights
in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise
bright field of light. “With complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,” he
said, “car companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where
it’s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated.
And I’ve had now two car companies’ engineers, when I played stupid and
said, ‘What’s the dark spot?’ … And the lighting engineers are all fucking
proud of themselves: ‘That’s where they measure the fucking thing!’
And I’m like, ‘You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new
car is blinding the shit out of everyone.’”
Amazing