• Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I truly believe that in first world countries, it’s because of insanely bright headlights. I remember reading that they’re 3,000x brighter than they were in the 1990s and because trucks are getting taller, they point more at other drivers than they ever have. My library even rents out night driving glasses so people can see if they’re beneficial.

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      4 months ago

      Oh yeah? Well my pappy told me it’s all cuz of them femboys everybody is watching. Ruins your retinas.

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      4 months ago

      The length anti car people will go to spread their propaganda…

      It’s watching screens at close range for 10 hours a day.

      Just think about how little of your time the average person spends crossing trucks at night. That’s not even 15 minutes a year.

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        Not just screens. Books are just as bad. Human eyes aren’t really optimized for staring at a single fixed distance for hours at a time, every single day.

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        4 months ago

        I might have missed something, but who’s anti car? You’re ABSOLUTELY correct about screen time; but it is worth noting that the amount of prescriptions for night driving glasses are higher than they’ve been in history. I travel often and, even in my SUV, I can’t stand that large/superduty truck lights don’t point downward enough… It’s downright blinding at times. I can’t imagine what someone in a sedan is seeing. It’s not just passing them at night, you get hit through rear view mirrors if they’re behind you and at red lights, too, which can add up to multiple hours a week depending on your commute/schedule. The laws in the 90s were based on fluorescent brightness, and should probably be updated, that’s all. It’s not truck owners fault that the lights are designed like that.

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          People think blu-ish light is more blinding, it’s just not. But it’s different and getting blinded still sucks.

          As for lens prescription, that’s because there’s never been this many old people.

          Truck lights should be at the same height as other cars. It’s unnecessary to have them up there, except for aesthetics.