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| tom66:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on February 14, 2022, 01:49:40 pm ---I think you put your finger on what annoys many people! - Consider the possibility that the cost of almost everything is going up faster than wages? Surely it is acceptable have simple (but safe and adequate) headlamps on a basic car? --- End quote --- Basic cars still have halogen lamps but LED lamps are falling in cost, making them more common place. For instance you get LED headlamps on a VW Golf now in the basic or second-up-from-basic trim, it's not much extra than a halogen system and has significant advantages. |
| ace1903:
--- Quote ---I think you put your finger on what annoys many people! - Consider the possibility that the cost of almost everything is going up faster than wages? --- End quote --- Nailed it. I would say that investment in new car is artificially inflated. I am not against progress and benefits of the LED technology. But here I see put intention to put everything together all PCBs, plastic, heatsinks LEDs laser in one hermetic housing. Marketing says only benefits but no one talks that after 5-10 years if you decide to sell the car it will be worthless just because some led died. If spark plug is worn or broken you replace only 4 spark plugs not the entire engine. I believe that technology if it is so advanced to include LASERs, it can be also advanced to make the headlamps modular and to be possible to replace only LEDs or PCB or fan inside the housing. If the compromise is to drive 50mph instead of 60mph at night because my car is without this blessing technology I would gladly accept it. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: ace1903 on February 14, 2022, 03:33:49 pm --- --- Quote ---I think you put your finger on what annoys many people! - Consider the possibility that the cost of almost everything is going up faster than wages? --- End quote --- Nailed it. I would say that investment in new car is artificially inflated. I am not against progress and benefits of the LED technology. But here I see put intention to put everything together all PCBs, plastic, heatsinks LEDs laser in one hermetic housing. Marketing says only benefits but no one talks that after 5-10 years if you decide to sell the car it will be worthless just because some led died. If spark plug is worn or broken you replace only 4 spark plugs not the entire engine. I believe that technology if it is so advanced to include LASERs, it can be also advanced to make the headlamps modular and to be possible to replace only LEDs or PCB or fan inside the housing. If the compromise is to drive 50mph instead of 60mph at night because my car is without this blessing technology I would gladly accept it. --- End quote --- The average price that people pay for a car/light truck in the USA is now $40,472 as of late 2021. I guess they have to include some advanced features to try to justify this price level! - even though the real world benefits are sometimes questionable. Cars are getting more difficult to repair for the same reasons that phones are sealed so you cannot (easily) replace the battery, or expand the memory, or use wired headphones.... basically, you are expected to keep paying a monthly fee and keep replacing them. They don't want people using older products and getting away without paying the steadily increasing prices, which they seem to consider to be their birthright to collect every month! |
| G7PSK:
There is a follow up on the laser diode power. |
| AndyC_772:
"Insane overengineering"...? Amateurs. |
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