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Night driving is made harder by:
People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. |
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John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. And simply getting old. -- Small asylum seeker wanted as mud flap, must be flexible and willing to travel Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"John" Not.responding.@dotcom wrote in message
2.222... Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Drivers who don't dip their headlights when you can see them coming towards you. (That goes without saying, which I presume is why you didn't mention it.) Drivers who leave their rear (red) foglights on even when it isn't foggy. Drivers who keep their brake lights on when they are stopped for many minutes in a queue of traffic, dazzling and "destroying" the night vision of the drivers behind. (*) Drivers who don't use full beam when it is safe/considerate to do so (ie when there's nothing in front of them) which makes it more difficult to see where the road ahead of them goes when you want to overtake them. I tend to put my beam on as soon as I'm level with the car, so at least *I* can see where the road goes beyond the distance that their dipped headlights lights up. (*) I was once stuck in a long queue of traffic that had been diverted because the main road had been closed due to an accident. The diversion has a staggered crossroads where all four roads are busy so it needs traffic lights - but because it is staggered, the lights only let traffic in one direction (as opposed to two facing directions) go at once, so queues quickly built up. There were long period where the traffic was stationary, and then occasions when everyone shuffled forward about 100 yards. The guy in front of me kept his foot on his footbrake all the time he was stationary, so all I could see was three big red blobs from his brake lights. I put my sun visor down and closed my eyes. The light was so bright even through my eyelids that I could see when they went out and knew that it was safe to move forwards a bit. Even so, it was difficult to see the road ahead for the first few seconds because my night vision had been "destroyed" by the bright light and took a while to recover. I'm not sure whether he had an automatic and was too lazy to put it into neutral and apply the handbrake whenever he was stopped - after all, it was easy to work out that each time we stopped it would be for at least a minute. I suffered in silence because I didn't want to cause conflict, but eventually the guy behind me (who could see the brake lights through my windscreen) leapt out and yelled "For F's sake take your foot off the brake when you've stopped", and I heard a few cheers from other drivers behind me ;-) The offender decided to play silly buggers so he then took to doing an emergency stop whenever he got close to the car in front - luckily I wasn't too close when he first did it, and I was wise to his little game after that. I resisted the temptation (and it was hard to resist!) to put my headlights on full beam so *he* would be dazzled like he was doing to me. |
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:47:05 GMT, John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. And cars with LED headlights. |
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On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Old eyes that do not react fast enough to rapidly changing light levels. -- it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalins Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984. Vaclav Klaus |
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On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. And pedestrian crossings with low refresh rate LED displays at eye level (for the pedestrians) - move your eyes across and you get a line of red dots hanging in the air. And several disorders such as hypothyroidism. And winter. It is usually much easier on summaer nights. |
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On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote:
Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. we do ... live with it... |
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On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. HUGE 4x4 that have their headlights focused on the middle of your rear screen even on dipped.... |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:14:20 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
wrote: On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. HUGE 4x4 that have their headlights focused on the middle of your rear screen even on dipped.... In 2002 I recall being blinded by a (then new) Mercedes that pulled out in front of me in a long traffic queue one wet night. It had the brightest rear brake light (at the bottom of the rear screen) I've ever seen. It was atrocious and really made me see red in more ways than one. I'm guessing a less phlegmatic person than I would have jumped out and thumped the driver (and I'll bet not a few drives did!) I can't recall the model now after all these years but I'm sure the manufacturers would have had to recall them to dim them down. |
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Cursitor Doom Wrote in message:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:14:20 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote: On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. HUGE 4x4 that have their headlights focused on the middle of your rear screen even on dipped.... In 2002 I recall being blinded by a (then new) Mercedes that pulled out in front of me in a long traffic queue one wet night. It had the brightest rear brake light (at the bottom of the rear screen) I've ever seen. It was atrocious and really made me see red in more ways than one. I'm guessing a less phlegmatic person than I would have jumped out and thumped the driver (and I'll bet not a few drives did!) I can't recall the model now after all these years but I'm sure the manufacturers would have had to recall them to dim them down. Here's a question I've been meaning to ask, do any cars dim there lights automatically depending on ambient light? It seems that the usual (German) suspects do not, judging by the way their brake lights blind me at night. traffic lights have had light sensors for decades. -- __ %Profound_observation% ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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Martin James Smith wrote in
: On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:47:05 GMT, John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. And cars with LED headlights. Cars with normal bulbs replaced with LED are the worse as the LED light source is not quite where the filament was. Therefore there is some scatter. Dirty lenses also scatter the light. |
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On Friday, 7 February 2020 15:46:31 UTC, Graham. wrote:
Cursitor Doom Wrote in message: On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:14:20 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote: On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. HUGE 4x4 that have their headlights focused on the middle of your rear screen even on dipped.... In 2002 I recall being blinded by a (then new) Mercedes that pulled out in front of me in a long traffic queue one wet night. It had the brightest rear brake light (at the bottom of the rear screen) I've ever seen. It was atrocious and really made me see red in more ways than one. I'm guessing a less phlegmatic person than I would have jumped out and thumped the driver (and I'll bet not a few drives did!) I can't recall the model now after all these years but I'm sure the manufacturers would have had to recall them to dim them down. Here's a question I've been meaning to ask, do any cars dim there lights automatically depending on ambient light? It seems that the usual (German) suspects do not, judging by the way their brake lights blind me at night. traffic lights have had light sensors for decades. Ambient light is not an adequate basis for dimming. If they could assess how visible they are to anyone who might need to see the light, then that would make sense. Like through the spray you are throwing out behind at speed on a motorway. |
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On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. You might have incipient cataracts. The lens in your eye becomes cloudy and causes scatter. My neighbour just had his eyes done, (plastic lenses) reckons it cured his similar problem. But these LED headlights ARE a pain. |
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In article 2,
John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote: And cars with LED headlights. Cars with normal bulbs replaced with LED are the worse as the LED light source is not quite where the filament was. Therefore there is some scatter. That entirely depends on the type of headlight. Projector types - with a bulls eye in front of the bulb - are very tolerant of bulb type. Tungsten, HID or LED all give a similar and well controlled beam pattern. You'll see that demonstrated on U Tube if you're interested. -- *Errors have been made. Others will be blamed. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 07/02/2020 13:51, NY wrote:
"John" Not.responding.@dotcom wrote in message 2.222... Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Drivers who don't dip their headlights when you can see them coming towards you. (That goes without saying, which I presume is why you didn't mention it.) Drivers who leave their rear (red) foglights on even when it isn't foggy. Drivers who keep their brake lights on when they are stopped for many minutes in a queue of traffic, dazzling and "destroying" the night vision of the drivers behind. (*) Theoretically red light should leave *night vision* unaffected as the rods are only sensitive by and affected by blue-green light (which is why red lights are used in submarine cabins - to retain vision for the periscope at night). I suspect that there is too much light during normal driving to need the rods: and your blue sensitive cones should be OK. -- Max Demian |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:46:23 +0000 (GMT+00:00), Graham. wrote:
In 2002 I recall being blinded by a (then new) Mercedes ... Mercs had horrible HID lights as well. Mate had one, he was following me down the A68 (roamn road, so straight but hilly and bumpy) he was a mile or more behind but everytime he crested a hill or hit a bump it looked like he was flashing his headlights. Observation of other cars exhibting similar "flashing" showed they were all Mercs. traffic lights have had light sensors for decades. Not aroud here. The set on Langwathby Bridge(*) don't dim at night. The green is so bright that you can't see where the entrance to the girder section is until you are past them and it's not straight on... (*) Oldest temporary bridge in the UK having been put in place in 1968 after the 300 year old sandstone arch bridge was washed away in floods a few months earlier. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 08:23:03 -0800 (PST), polygonum_on_google wrote:
Ambient light is not an adequate basis for dimming. If they could assess how visible they are to anyone who might need to see the light, then that would make sense. Like through the spray you are throwing out behind at speed on a motorway. Or just fog in daylight. Confuses the auto lights on my car, can be in thick fog but with a relatively high light level so it switches the lights off... -- Cheers Dave. |
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"NY" wrote in message ... "John" Not.responding.@dotcom wrote in message 2.222... Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Drivers who don't dip their headlights when you can see them coming towards you. (That goes without saying, which I presume is why you didn't mention it.) Drivers who leave their rear (red) foglights on even when it isn't foggy. Drivers who keep their brake lights on when they are stopped for many minutes in a queue of traffic, dazzling and "destroying" the night vision of the drivers behind. (*) Drivers who don't use full beam when it is safe/considerate to do so (ie when there's nothing in front of them) which makes it more difficult to see where the road ahead of them goes when you want to overtake them. I tend to put my beam on as soon as I'm level with the car, so at least *I* can see where the road goes beyond the distance that their dipped headlights lights up. Thats more evidence that there is something unusual about your eyes. The driver of the car you are passing can obviously see where they are going but you need more light there. Since you made the original comment I have never been dazzled by those who keep their foot on the brake when stopped at lights at night, (*) I was once stuck in a long queue of traffic that had been diverted because the main road had been closed due to an accident. The diversion has a staggered crossroads where all four roads are busy so it needs traffic lights - but because it is staggered, the lights only let traffic in one direction (as opposed to two facing directions) go at once, so queues quickly built up. There were long period where the traffic was stationary, and then occasions when everyone shuffled forward about 100 yards. The guy in front of me kept his foot on his footbrake all the time he was stationary, so all I could see was three big red blobs from his brake lights. I put my sun visor down and closed my eyes. The light was so bright even through my eyelids that I could see when they went out and knew that it was safe to move forwards a bit. Even so, it was difficult to see the road ahead for the first few seconds because my night vision had been "destroyed" by the bright light and took a while to recover. Thats more evidence that your eyes take longer than normal to adjust. I've never had that effect and have never had to close my eyes when stopped in traffic and almost no one here doesnt keep their foot on the brake when stopped at traffic lights at night. I'm not sure whether he had an automatic and was too lazy to put it into neutral and apply the handbrake whenever he was stopped Or doesnt see the point in doing that. - after all, it was easy to work out that each time we stopped it would be for at least a minute. I suffered in silence because I didn't want to cause conflict, but eventually the guy behind me (who could see the brake lights through my windscreen) leapt out and yelled "For F's sake take your foot off the brake when you've stopped", and I heard a few cheers from other drivers behind me ;-) The offender decided to play silly buggers so he then took to doing an emergency stop whenever he got close to the car in front - luckily I wasn't too close when he first did it, and I was wise to his little game after that. I resisted the temptation (and it was hard to resist!) to put my headlights on full beam so *he* would be dazzled like he was doing to me. |
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NY wrote:
Drivers who keep their brake lights on when they are stopped for many minutes in a queue of traffic, dazzling and "destroying" the night vision of the drivers behind. My car has an "auto hold" feature, where it keeps brake pressure applied once you take your foot off the brake, my previous card had it too. The old car turned the brake lights off while held, so I made a point of taking my foot off the brake pedal, and do the same with the new car, but I've realised that the new one keeps the brake lights on until I touch the accelerator to move off again :-( |
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On 07/02/2020 16:23, polygonum_on_google wrote:
On Friday, 7 February 2020 15:46:31 UTC, Graham. wrote: Cursitor Doom Wrote in message: On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:14:20 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote: On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. HUGE 4x4 that have their headlights focused on the middle of your rear screen even on dipped.... In 2002 I recall being blinded by a (then new) Mercedes that pulled out in front of me in a long traffic queue one wet night. It had the brightest rear brake light (at the bottom of the rear screen) I've ever seen. It was atrocious and really made me see red in more ways than one. I'm guessing a less phlegmatic person than I would have jumped out and thumped the driver (and I'll bet not a few drives did!) I can't recall the model now after all these years but I'm sure the manufacturers would have had to recall them to dim them down. Here's a question I've been meaning to ask, do any cars dim there lights automatically depending on ambient light? It seems that the usual (German) suspects do not, judging by the way their brake lights blind me at night. traffic lights have had light sensors for decades. Ambient light is not an adequate basis for dimming. If they could assess how visible they are to anyone who might need to see the light, then that would make sense. Like through the spray you are throwing out behind at speed on a motorway. better being blinded than not seeing a wee ned in his fart can with dark lenses on everything and inadequate bulbs..... |
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harry wrote in
: On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. You might have incipient cataracts. The lens in your eye becomes cloudy and causes scatter. My neighbour just had his eyes done, (plastic lenses) reckons it cured his similar problem. But these LED headlights ARE a pain. Eyes are fine - just being objective about the issues. |
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:04:55 GMT, John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote:
Cars with normal bulbs replaced with LED are the worse as the LED light source is not quite where the filament was. Therefore there is some scatter. Dirty lenses also scatter the light. You're not supposed to use LED bulbs in car headlamps with conventional reflector bowls; it's a *seriously* daft idea. |
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On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote:
Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Thinking about it, I have noticed a considerable reduction in the number of 500W halogen exterior floodlights and far fewer seriously mis-aimed headlamps in the past few years. Probably varies across the UK. Also, in general, fewer obvious lighting faults in cars. What is worse, in my experience, is the amount of sports lighting visible, sometimes, from miles away. |
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People who do not wear reflective items when crossing roads in odd places,
motorised scooters, and of course the new street lights which apparently though giving more light do not actually show contrasts very well according to some people I meet. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "John" Not.responding.@dotcom wrote in message 2.222... Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. |
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On 07/02/20 19:38, polygonum_on_google wrote:
On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Thinking about it, I have noticed a considerable reduction in the number of 500W halogen exterior floodlights and far fewer seriously mis-aimed headlamps in the past few years. Probably varies across the UK. Is that perhaps due to LED R7 replacements for 500W halogens giving less than half the light that the halogens gave (2000 - 2400 against 6100 lumens)? -- Jeff |
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On Friday, 7 February 2020 20:24:39 UTC, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 07/02/20 19:38, polygonum_on_google wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 11:47:08 UTC, John wrote: Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Thinking about it, I have noticed a considerable reduction in the number of 500W halogen exterior floodlights and far fewer seriously mis-aimed headlamps in the past few years. Probably varies across the UK. Is that perhaps due to LED R7 replacements for 500W halogens giving less than half the light that the halogens gave (2000 - 2400 against 6100 lumens)? Possibly. But I really cannot remember the last time I saw a real blaster - the lights I do see seem to be better aimed, and (often) not left on so much. |
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:39:23 +0000, Max Demian wrote:
Theoretically red light should leave *night vision* unaffected as the rods are only sensitive by and affected by blue-green light (which is why red lights are used in submarine cabins - to retain vision for the periscope at night). I suspect that there is too much light during normal driving to need the rods: and your blue sensitive cones should be OK. I can adjust the ambient lighting in the car to various colours. I chose red. -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me Β£1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 07/02/2020 20:07, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
People who do not wear reflective items when crossing roads in odd places, motorised scooters, and of course the new street lights which apparently though giving more light do not actually show contrasts very well according to some people I meet. Also, being white, they often make it look like there is a car coming to the end of a sideroad, just as you are turning in. SteveW |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 13:51:26 -0000, "NY" wrote:
"John" Not.responding.@dotcom wrote in message . 92.222... Night driving is made harder by: People with dirty and poorly aimed headlights. Houses with exterior floodlights aimed to light up the air. Buildings with bulkhead type lights that just throw the light everwhere. Cyclists who deliberately seem to aim their intensive lights at the eyes of drivers. Drivers who don't dip their headlights when you can see them coming towards you. (That goes without saying, which I presume is why you didn't mention it.) Drivers who leave their rear (red) foglights on even when it isn't foggy. Drivers who keep their brake lights on when they are stopped for many minutes in a queue of traffic, dazzling and "destroying" the night vision of the drivers behind. (*) I've sometimes wondered if it was possible to construct a pull-down half-silvered mirror to reflect the brake lights back to the offender. Offenders often had one brake light burnt out from over-use. -- Dave W |
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:35:19 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote: In article 2, John Not.responding.@dotcom wrote: And cars with LED headlights. Cars with normal bulbs replaced with LED are the worse as the LED light source is not quite where the filament was. Therefore there is some scatter. That entirely depends on the type of headlight. Projector types - with a bulls eye in front of the bulb - are very tolerant of bulb type. Tungsten, HID or LED all give a similar and well controlled beam pattern. You'll see that demonstrated on U Tube if you're interested. I would dispute that - some cars give a dazzling blue side spill due to the non-achromatic lens. -- Dave W |
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some cars give a dazzling blue side spill due to the non-achromatic lens. Do you wear glasses? I do, and when looking askew in door mirror at following cars, DRLs tend to show as a white light with a displaced blue light. Must say that I never see any dazzling blue spill though. |
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Is that perhaps due to LED R7 replacements for 500W halogens giving less than half the light that the halogens gave (2000 - 2400 against 6100 lumens)? Possibly. But I really cannot remember the last time I saw a real blaster - the lights I do see seem to be better aimed, and (often) not left on so much. The arrival of LED versions of outdoor floodlights seems to have spurred people to add more and leave them on longer. Some huge ones on the front of some houses - aimed almost horizontally. |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 23:43:24 +0000, Steve Walker wrote:
People who do not wear reflective items when crossing roads in odd places, Yep, most pedestrians do wear dark clothing. Impossible to see at night with no street lights. Don't carry a torch or have any retro reflective clothing trim or arm bands or something. the new street lights which apparently though giving more light do not actually show contrasts very well according to some people I meet. Also, being white, they often make it look like there is a car coming to the end of a sideroad, just as you are turning in. Not just street lights, a lot of exterior lighting has moved to LED and all close to the same colour. Is that the headlights of a car through the trees or a light on a building? And the design of most LED exterior lights means that even if you wish to mount and aim them so light doesn't spill you can't as the "beam" of light is not much less than 180 degrees. -- Cheers Dave. |
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Dave Liquorice writes On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 23:43:24 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: People who do not wear reflective items when crossing roads in odd places, Yep, most pedestrians do wear dark clothing. Impossible to see at night with no street lights. Don't carry a torch or have any retro reflective clothing trim or arm bands or something. the new street lights which apparently though giving more light do not actually show contrasts very well according to some people I meet. Also, being white, they often make it look like there is a car coming to the end of a sideroad, just as you are turning in. The elevated stretch of our by-pass *flicks* with light as vehicles with those sideways beams pass gaps in the hedges. Not just street lights, a lot of exterior lighting has moved to LED and all close to the same colour. Is that the headlights of a car through the trees or a light on a building? And the design of most LED exterior lights means that even if you wish to mount and aim them so light doesn't spill you can't as the "beam" of light is not much less than 180 degrees. I was annoyed when our B road street lamps were fitted with LED replacement lamps. Much too bright in my view and not directional (I understood that the previous sodium fittings had a lens which directed most of the light in the direction of travel). Coming home after 11pm yesterday, I was amused to note they are now as dim as tired tungsten:-) -- Tim Lamb |
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I used to have an old 1970s triumph dolomite and that had a relay and resistor block in the boot that dimmed all the rear lights if you had the headlights on
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Dave W wrote: That entirely depends on the type of headlight. Projector types - with a bulls eye in front of the bulb - are very tolerant of bulb type. Tungsten, HID or LED all give a similar and well controlled beam pattern. You'll see that demonstrated on U Tube if you're interested. I would dispute that - some cars give a dazzling blue side spill due to the non-achromatic lens. If it gives a dazzling side spill, that will show up in the beam pattern? Most of these projector lights produce a spike of light to the left which lights up the side of the road way beyond the range of the main part of the dip. If a car is parked on the wrong side of the road, headlights on, oncoming cars get the full force of that spike. -- -- *A fool and his money are soon partying * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Trevor Smith wrote: I used to have an old 1970s triumph dolomite and that had a relay and resistor block in the boot that dimmed all the rear lights if you had the headlights on Why would you want brighter tail lights in good visibility than bad? More likely it dimmed the brake lights. As they have to be seen in daylight. -- *Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 08/02/2020 09:49, John wrote:
Is that perhaps due to LED R7 replacements for 500W halogens giving less than half the light that the halogens gave (2000 - 2400 against 6100 lumens)? Possibly. But I really cannot remember the last time I saw a real blaster - the lights I do see seem to be better aimed, and (often) not left on so much. The arrival of LED versions of outdoor floodlights seems to have spurred people to add more and leave them on longer. Some huge ones on the front of some houses - aimed almost horizontally. People don't realise that the 'reflector' is just 'decorative' and that LED floods are omnidirectional within the limits of the frame. I fitted one last week and with Paul up the ladder with a spanner I went to the effective horizon (top of the yard) and gestured down a bit up a bit. The light has ended up tilted downwards so much it looks odd but it still throws light to the horizon. In the past I've had to restrict the top of the beam with strips of black tape on the glass. I wish someone would invent a LED flood with a bit of beam control. I realise the problem is that the light isn't a single point source. Bill |
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On 07/02/2020 11:47, John wrote:
Night driving.... I ask as an optician, wondering whether to punt these things to people who complain about such.... Has anyone got any specialised night driving lenses? Hoya En Route for example, or Zeiss Drivesafe. I don't actively sell them as they are damned expensive and the feedback I have heard is mixed at best. |
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