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Insane overengineering of a car headlight
Tangent_Tracker:
It's called progress, and I love it. The jury is still out as to whether laser headlights give much improvement over LED atm though....
Bud:
You call it progress until you receive a repair bill. Then you call it overengineering.
BrokenYugo:
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one in the world who is perfectly happy with (properly functioning and aimed) halogen headlights. I also, surrounded by people with illegal and/or severely misaimed lights on their personality replacement trucks, often wonder if I'm in some elite group that holds the secret knowledge of what a low beam is for.
The low beam is not for seeing 600 yards ahead, any animals hiding in the tree canopy, and oncoming drivers making rude gestures at your light vomiting vehicle, it's for lighting the road ahead (and signs on the side) far enough you'll have time to stop or evade if something pops into that light, nothing more.
Then there are the dead stock LED/HID/Laser cars that blind me every time they hit a bump, which I assume is just a nasty case of the tech getting too far ahead of the regs. They need to be aimed farther down to account for the razor sharp cutoff, but that probably doesn't sell, because people don't know what headlights are for.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 14, 2022, 03:13:46 pm ---it's not much extra than a halogen system and has significant advantages.
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Like what?
SeanB:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 14, 2022, 05:51:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 14, 2022, 03:13:46 pm ---it's not much extra than a halogen system and has significant advantages.
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Like what?
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When you have a fender bender you now have to pay $2k per side, and also dealer part only, as opposed to the aftermarket halogen being $20, and not needing to be coded to the vehicle to operate. So your insurance premium goes up as well.
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