I was behind a new Mazda 3 the other day and the turning signal was so bright it was leaving an after image in my vision. The bloody turn signal on the back of the car. Crazy.
It has been for a while, because people can't seem to bother checking that they're running with high beams during the day, and for some reason they've turned their lights on. Maybe the vehicle was purchased with the lights on manual and they've never turned them off. I wouldn't put it past some people.
Riad lighting is expensive (to install, maintain and operate), doesn't increase road safety (drivers tend to drive faster and lay less attention) and produces a ton of light pollution, splitting habitats and contributing to the insects decline.
They'll say we can't use them because of the snow plows, but they're in use all throughout Scandinavia.
Ontario and some provinces have an oil based paint that stays on tyr road with its reflective properties. BC uses some environmentally friendly paint that is totally faded in no time.
I meant the oil bases retains whatever reflective formula they have. Here in BC the lines are gone in a short period and non reflective pretty quickly. Considering we have rain and dark skies all winter you would think they'd fix it.
I'm in Ontario. I remember reflective lines when I was a kid in the 90s but I haven't seen them with the reflective property in decades. When it rains, the lines are gone.
I see a lot of new vehicles with lights that might be led but are not blindingly bright. So I would challenge that statement at least in the United States.
As someone with an eye disability (keratoconus) and light sensitivity, I've had to completely give up trying to drive at night because headlights are so physically painful. Sometimes I even have to wear sunglasses as a passenger. It fucking sucks.
Fwiw, I've found a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat is a good way to avoid being tailgated by assholes with laser beams
That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.
I just wish I could find an aftermarket light replacement that is amber yellow and a proper lumen rating. This absolutely needs to be fixed at the source, but for those stuck with these lights, I am shocked at the lack of 3rd party solutions.
Aging and cataracts affect magnitude of glare from headlights as well. But for regular vision? Way too bright. So now standards for headlight brilliance should be added to the other standards list like, for example, pickup truck size.
BC adds reflectors in addition to paint. The paint wears off but the reflectors last a long time and while I thought it was odd when I first moved here I've come to like them
There are no max headlight brightness laws in Canada.
Halogens are 1200 lumens, but these LEDs are three times that, then some asshole lifts his truck and doesn't re-aim them, because bright lights are yet another penis surrogate. But the bigger problem in Canada is we do not periodically safety inspect vehicles at all, so morons go crazy on Alibaba.
In most countries, vehicles are inspected annually after three years from new.
I guess I mean we have lighting laws or maybe standard is the proper term for NorthAmerican lighting with various US SAE and Canadian motor vehicle SAE regulations for headlight design /aiming.
A company I worked for used to work with headlamp and tail lamp data and had a light testing tunnel.
But you throw in a bulb with the wrong focal length for your cars parabola and you get splayed light in all directions instead of a parallel aimed beam. In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
People pass on shoulders now and police do fuck all.
Brodozers have wheels extending several inches beyond fenders and police do nothing. People are putting pretty colors on their DRLs and police do nothing. You can even drive around with a bare aluminum licence plate and no one cares. Little point in laws when they aren't enforced.
Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.
41 Comments
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 131d
I’ve filled it out already; I recommend everyone else does too.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 131d
I'd argue it has become so bad it is now a problem during daylight as well
albbi@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 131d
I was behind a new Mazda 3 the other day and the turning signal was so bright it was leaving an after image in my vision. The bloody turn signal on the back of the car. Crazy.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
It has been for a while, because people can't seem to bother checking that they're running with high beams during the day, and for some reason they've turned their lights on. Maybe the vehicle was purchased with the lights on manual and they've never turned them off. I wouldn't put it past some people.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 130d
These new bright white lights are bad when not on high beams. Blindingly bad. I even saw a police car (in the us) with them once. Society decays.
brax@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 131d
Next can we get surveys going to fix the lines on the road that disappear when it rains at night?
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 130d
We need the European line markers. They're super visible in all conditions!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 130d
Because Europe did not rely on road lighting.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 129d
This is the way.
Riad lighting is expensive (to install, maintain and operate), doesn't increase road safety (drivers tend to drive faster and lay less attention) and produces a ton of light pollution, splitting habitats and contributing to the insects decline.
They'll say we can't use them because of the snow plows, but they're in use all throughout Scandinavia.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
It's a huge waste of electricity. Don't look for common sense in Ontario, we don't even have winter tire laws.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 130d
Ontario and some provinces have an oil based paint that stays on tyr road with its reflective properties. BC uses some environmentally friendly paint that is totally faded in no time.
karlhungus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 130d
In ontario, the lines disappear when it's rainy as well. I do think oil based paints are any more reflective, they add that later
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 130d
I meant the oil bases retains whatever reflective formula they have. Here in BC the lines are gone in a short period and non reflective pretty quickly. Considering we have rain and dark skies all winter you would think they'd fix it.
karlhungus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 129d
heh, well i can confirm they aren't reflective in ontario as well
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 129d
Come to BC in the winter, it will make you think Ontario road markings are amazing. 😀
karlhungus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
heh, with pleasure, BC is gorgeous; even barring the road markings
brax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 129d
I'm in Ontario. I remember reflective lines when I was a kid in the 90s but I haven't seen them with the reflective property in decades. When it rains, the lines are gone.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 129d
Maybe Ontario has switched too. I left near 2010
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 130d
This, and vehicles over a certain size and height should be banned.
nik282000@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 129d
Tax by weight and footprint on the road.
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
After hearing the cry babies about carbon tax, and for our safety, I recommend a straight up ban.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 130d
Those bright white headlights should be illegal. Fuck your headlights! Seriously.
Routhinator@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
Yep, fuck my headlights.. But also you're kind of screwed if you buy a new vehicle these days. There are no other options
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 129d
I see a lot of new vehicles with lights that might be led but are not blindingly bright. So I would challenge that statement at least in the United States.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
As someone with an eye disability (keratoconus) and light sensitivity, I've had to completely give up trying to drive at night because headlights are so physically painful. Sometimes I even have to wear sunglasses as a passenger. It fucking sucks.
Fwiw, I've found a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat is a good way to avoid being tailgated by assholes with laser beams
mountainbear49@programming.dev · 4 pts · 129d
That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.
Routhinator@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
I just wish I could find an aftermarket light replacement that is amber yellow and a proper lumen rating. This absolutely needs to be fixed at the source, but for those stuck with these lights, I am shocked at the lack of 3rd party solutions.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 130d
Aging and cataracts affect magnitude of glare from headlights as well. But for regular vision? Way too bright. So now standards for headlight brilliance should be added to the other standards list like, for example, pickup truck size.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 130d
Just make all provincial roads be toll roads based on weight.
You've solved oversized vehicles and have money to maintain roads now.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 129d
I wish they asked about road maintenance in this survey.
Headlights are an issue but also the fact that I can't see the lines at night when the paint is barely visible during the day.
Routhinator@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
BC adds reflectors in addition to paint. The paint wears off but the reflectors last a long time and while I thought it was odd when I first moved here I've come to like them
discomatic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 129d
Back in the day, road paint was super reflective. No idea why they stopped using it.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website · 1 pts · 129d
That'd be a provincial survey, not a federal one.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 130d
It is really, really, stupid there are no laws regulating this, but Canada can do nothing unless US does it and that won't happen.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 130d
There are a lot of lighting laws for this stuff, just nobody has enforced it
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 130d
There are no max headlight brightness laws in Canada.
Halogens are 1200 lumens, but these LEDs are three times that, then some asshole lifts his truck and doesn't re-aim them, because bright lights are yet another penis surrogate. But the bigger problem in Canada is we do not periodically safety inspect vehicles at all, so morons go crazy on Alibaba.
In most countries, vehicles are inspected annually after three years from new.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 130d
I guess I mean we have lighting laws or maybe standard is the proper term for NorthAmerican lighting with various US SAE and Canadian motor vehicle SAE regulations for headlight design /aiming. A company I worked for used to work with headlamp and tail lamp data and had a light testing tunnel.
But you throw in a bulb with the wrong focal length for your cars parabola and you get splayed light in all directions instead of a parallel aimed beam. In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 129d
People pass on shoulders now and police do fuck all.
Brodozers have wheels extending several inches beyond fenders and police do nothing. People are putting pretty colors on their DRLs and police do nothing. You can even drive around with a bare aluminum licence plate and no one cares. Little point in laws when they aren't enforced.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 129d
Yeah exactly. And the dudes with 4 inch spike lug nuts.
mountainbear49@programming.dev · 1 pts · 129d
Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 130d
Just did the survey. I even put I found it on Lemmy 😂