Kinda obvious that it is reflective tape, thus the message.

it is

Yes you can! You can get them adjusted at a mechanic, or get the internal reflector swapped out

I have them as well and a lot of others around me and they're awesome!

As long as they're regulated properly. I'm in Germany and we love regulating stuff!

Why did you buy it?

pay to get them replaced with something that's not dangerous

it's your vehicle. you are responsible for it too.

If it's from the factory, it's likely not as bad as the aftermarket ones. The problem with aftermarket is the light housing is designed for a bulb in a particular location. The aftermarket ones will often be in the wrong location, so even the low beams will shine higher than they should be. (Low/high beams have to do with height, not brightness.) Your lights might be bright, but I suspect that your low beams still don't shine upward very far. If they do, name and shame the manufacturer of your car please.

My car has them too, from the factory. Maybe there are tints that can be applied to the light thing. Maybe that's illegal tho 🤷

The factory ones are bright but not blinding. Its always the aftermarket's that aren't set up properly or regulated that are blinding.

Spray-on tint lol.

Do it. I did and it's fucking hilarious getting revenge on these people. They get so mad lol

Just don't make the mistake I did and do it to a cop (it was at night so I couldn't see what kind of car it was; all I saw was tailgating headlights). Thankfully he had a sense of humor about it.

Hit em with the uno reverse!

You will be the one pulled over and ticketed, even if you aren't actually using it.

My buddy had an Audi A4, probably a 2003, and one of the features was just this bright ass light that you could turn on that pointed backwards. He had another Audi after that didn't have it, never really seen one with it, other than that. It was great for dealing with tailgaters.

Not just aftermarket. Teslas are notorious for having overly bright, misaimed headlights.

There is no US regulation on headlight brightness, so it's a little of that and also new cars maxing out what they can put on the car. Add to that the height of trucks and SUVs.

LED lights are far brighter though, and the worst color wavelength for vision.

No way, stock leds are everywhere and they're bullshit.

That actually used to be the case, but then people got used to it, and now people think regular headlights are too dim because they don't illuminate way up into the sky like a second sun, and so new cars are coming out with brighter headlights (with higher angles, presumably). But there's no technical reason LEDs have to have their terrible reputation in headlights, so the spirit of your post is correct.

LED replacement bulbs are a common problem. The beam dip is designed around a single element. However, LEDs can't produce the intense light of an incandescent or halogen type bulb. To compensate, they use an array of LEDs. This creates a large emission surface. Some of the surface is a significant distance from where the element used to be. This completely messes up the beam shaping, throwing light where it shouldn't be.

Combine poor beam forming with higher vehicles, and higher outputs, and LEDs get a very bad rep.

A properly designed LED headlight has far less issues. Unfortunately there are a lot of stock units which also have poor designs.

No. 10 years ago you might've had a point but nowadays every new car on the road has blinding LED headlights

They don’t teach people how to aim headlights anymore and people refuse to read the manual for the 4000 pound death machine they just purchased. So they even come from the dealership misaimed now and nobody does anything about it. We don’t even have annual inspections in my state anymore since 2002.

As with great many things, half the problem is education.

This is a real Mercedes-Benz as they ran in magazines, showing you can check how far along a cow's pregnancy is with their stock headlights.

The other is idiots lifting their 4×4s and not readjusting the angles. They probably wonder why they don't see as well now too.

False.

I hate that this is always the excuse. People are not replacing their headlights with the frequency that would be required for how insanely common blindingly bright headlights are these days.

incorrect. stock LED headlights are blinding

For whatever reason the US has not approved the adaptive headlights. We still have dumb lights, that keep getting brighter.

the LED light can be directed way more accurately

This only works on flat roads. Where I am, this results in what looks like the driver behind you rapidly flicking their high beams on and off every time you go over a one foot hump in the road. It's possibly worse than just having it be consistently too bright.

Are you by any chance describing Adaptive Driving Beam headlights? I believe they've been in available in the EU for quite some time, but only allowed in the US since 2022.

I heard the same arguments about 20 or more years ago. "These new damn headlights are too bright. They blind all the oncoming traffic. These headlights should be banned by law." Ofcourse the one making these complaints was my dad and xenon headlights were becoming quite common at that point, even on some cheaper cars. The only time i've had problems with "bright" headlights is when the car that i'm driving has either terrible lights (so old and tired bulbs) or the lights are not adjusted correctly and point down way too much. Funnily enough the 2 cars i head with terrible lights both had xenon bulbs. The last 2 cars that i've had so far both have halogen bulbs. No issue with headlights that are too bright. Then again me not having any issues doesn't mean that complaints from others arent valid but incorrectly aimed lights with bad bulbs are already an issue in my circle so i'd imagine that these are the people that complain about LEDs the most. I also live in the EU so yearly inspectons atleast don't let you pass if your headlights are terrible.

It's super easy to adjust in most cars that don't do it automatically. There is usually a slot near the lights and you use a philips or flat screw driver and turn the adjustment nut either up or down depending on need. Instructions are in the manual or you can look it up online for every vehicle I've owned.

There is an exact method but generally line the car up facing and super close to a wall, turn the lights on, the center of the beam should be about 2-3 inches below the height of your headlights. If you have space the beam should hit the ground 7.5m or about 25 ft from where your car is parked.

A common issue in my hick town is people lifting vehicles and never adjusting the light angle. Any time you put bigger tires on a car or lift the body you should adjust the lights.

The worst part is when the other headlights are so bright you have to make yours brighter to compensate. I have astigmatism and am literally blinded by these headlights while driving at night. I had to upgrade my own headlights to LED (still dimmer than these others) just so that I could still make out the road when they drive by. Because the way my eyes work the more my eyes adjust for darkness the more blinding a light is.

The technology for adaptive headlights absolutely has existed...... in super high-end cars because that's a complex optical control and microelectronics system. it requires advanced engineering, complex optical assemblies, and complicated control systems. Your Honda will never have that because most of us simply don't want to pay. Cars are complicated enough. Do want more things that can break? Do you want your replacement headlights to cost $5,000? LED technology is so far superior to any other light source for headlights. That there are idiots all over the place with poorly maintained cars is not the LEDs fault.

A lot of them are now automatic and older not Lazer beam lights don't deactivate them. And many many many people have no idea how to adjust or change this... To be fair many many people have no business behind the wheel of literally anything but I digress.

I thought this, but then after flashing a few of them I realized those are actually their low beams, and they're just stupidly bright LEDs.

If their lights are properly aligned it won't be an issue.

If they aren't, then it's the owner's responsibility to fix them. They're a danger to everybody else on the road.

How is making your vehicle highly visible a dick move? Probably safter than most others.

Blinder-lovers tend to lean conservative (comes with the "Doesn't hurt me = Not a problem"), and Lemmy is definitely not very.

presumably reflectice tape. if you want to go the extra mile for a bit like this there's a special nautical version that reflects much higher % and directly back at source

Boneappletea.

Edit: I guess it is a brand of duct tape.