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tyho | 1 year ago

Yes. Do people not reliably dip beams in the US? that must be horrible!

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foobarian|1 year ago

The problem is, lately you can't tell if they are normal or high beams. Something about the cooler color and sharper quality of the LED lights maybe? Often as I curse an oncoming driver for not dipping their beams I notice in my rearview they turn them on after they pass me. So they were low beams to begin with.

sangnoir|1 year ago

> The problem is, lately you can't tell if they are normal or high beams.

Properly leveled lights should cast the beam below the horizon: any person seeing the headlights situated above the their height should not be blinded by them. I suspect the etymology of "high beam" is because they project higher to allow seeing further (and blinding everyone in the path)