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This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

But what if someone doesn't see it? What then?

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Truly mildly infuriating. Nicely done.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

road advertisement in general should be illegal, it's literally MADE to distract drivers

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

We for real need to start legislating and enforcing brightness laws. These headlights are out of control. This thing is an abomination.

There is no rhyme or reason for anything beyond a reasonable street lamp and headlight. We kept asking could we, it's time to ask should we? If nothing else I miss seeing stars at night

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The issue with a lot of LED lights isn't brightness, its beam dip. The light should be angled downwards so it never shines into the oncoming traffic.

Unfortunately, a lot of retrofitted brighter bulbs don't play nicely with the beam dips. Car companies also err towards helping their diver, rather than the oncoming ones.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The brightness is absolutely a problem, it doesn't matter how well they are adjusted, when the car hits a bump or comes over a crest, it's going to blind oncoming traffic

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's still a problem, but it's not a new one. There's always been the issue that lights bright enough to see ahead reliably are also bright enough to dazzle. It's also a lot easier to cope with a quick flash, however, rather than continuous glare.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Im not sure if you've actually seen bright German LED headlights, because they are otherworldly. Older lights, even bright Xenon lights are no match for those blinding LEDs

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I fully agree, there's some stupid ones out there. But they are actually less common than you initially think.

I spend far too long going up and down the motorways. I get bored and start comparing the various problematic cars. Most lack the nice clean cut off line, or it's set so high as to be invisible. I've rarely been dazzled by cars with a properly set beam dip. It's either high beams, or messed up beam dip.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

It also depends a lot on the height of your car, my car is very low and the amount of times I get blinded is considerably higher than in a higher car.

Also as a sidenote, low beams on new cars seem to be just as bright as the high beams. Turning on the high beams just raises the projection, whereas it used to actually increase the brightness aswell

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

In Mexico they have 10 x 30 meter (say, 30 by 100 foot) led billboards that you can literally see 10 kilometers away.

Fuck. Everything. About. That.

Those should just "accidentally" get painted

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It looks like a UK bus. If you want to help make the bus company's life miserable there is a useful trick. This is the sort of thing a lot of parish council members will get disproportionately angry about. They also tend to have far less to do than higher bits of government. They also know a lot more about the inner workings of local government, and who's ear to burn about it. A politely written letter (or a few from several people) can get them up in arms about it.

Once you set that in motion, wait a week or 2, then also contact the local papers about it. I've seen them roll with far smaller stories than this.

Neither group has much/any hard power, but the soft power of the NIMBY croud can be extremely effective against public facing companies.

Edit to add.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/artificial-light-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints

It could be argued that that light is a statutory nuisance.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm fortunate that the bins on my street are collected twice-daily. The trade-off is that the bins lorries have LED sides. Lights up my entire bedroom when they pull up. I'm also opposite a pub, so every Wednesday morning starting around 7 it's non-stop clanging from barrel deliveries. I live above two shopfronts, so every morning through midnight is bullshit noises. I live under a lamppost, so the council putting up Christmas lights means a cherry picker staring through my windows. I'm just bitching, but the LED buses and lorries are fuckin wild.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How does your city produce enough trash to justify pickups twice daily? That’s fuckin’ wild lol

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It's London mate, twice a day rubbish pickup on my street and the fuckin place is still full of rats. Still, cheap protein in a pot noodle innit! Some of those fuckers are bigger than cats, fearsome bastards.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Whoever*

Whom is an object, who is a subject. An object usually follows prepositions like “to”, so it’s good instinct to use whomever here, but in this case the object is the entire clause “whoever invented …”, so the whoever is the subject of the verb invented.

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[–] RedShadowWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Anyway here is how to tell if LED sign is cheap

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Same goes for LED headlights. "Enjoy looking directly into lasers at night."

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Multi-beam and Matrix LED headlights will cut oncoming traffic out of their beams. They'll blind you less than any other type of headlight. You can see it best when driving in fog. It's not expensive tech in 2025 either, that' a damn Škoda Octavia in the video, I rode in one the other day and it had cheaper plastics in the interior than my first car, a 1992 Audi 80.

It's mis-aligned headlights that cause the most problems. And people retrofitting HIDs or LEDs into enclosures that are not meant for those.

I read

"Technical Education Opens Doors

OR

Your Child"

I though it was a threat to either go to college, or satan takes your child as a sacrifice for being ignorant.

[–] subiacOSB@lemmy.ml 12 points 23 hours ago

Shit that’s bright af.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure I've seen them with the side panel showing the route the bus was travelling on.

No surprise that they eventually gave that up for ad money.

Next step will be to have that screen in colour and animated. And speakers.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Wake up babe, new Ad Block just dropped.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Slingshot would give you more range

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I always keep an eye out for the comments that would be the most incomprehensible shown in the last century.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Saw one of those yesterday. Should be super illegal, they're so bright.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

It's not that they're LEDs, it's that they're too bright.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 19 hours ago

At the very least, can they not be blue? It's the worst color at night.

Red would be best--it fucks with your eyes the least--but there's often legal limits on red lights (besides brake/turn signals) on non-emergency vehicles. Something in orange or yellow would be less harsh.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago

I haven't had the displeasure yet.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Having been to Manchester very recently, I can think of bigger things to complain about.

(Not that I have room to talk, being in Blackburn.)

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How is your move to the UK going? How do you find it compared to the US?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I love it so much more than the U.S., but I really need to find a job that pays enough to get my wife over here and get my daughter off a tourist visa. But it has only been two weeks.

Anyway, just the fact that, despite the British having a reputation for rudeness, people here are so nice and helpful compared to everyone's "fuck you, I got my own shit going on" attitude in the U.S. We have had so many people, total strangers, help us in one way or another in the past two weeks.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

The rudeness comes from London mostly. When you pack people too close together, they tend to develop a bunch of social rules, to keep sane. Those rules are unspoken and dynamic. That also cause an impressive reaction when you break them by mistake. It's quite common worldwide, but London it particular about them.

Once you're clear of the big smoke, and get a feel for the lingo and etiquette, we are actually quite a friendly bunch.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

to whomever invented ~~LED~~ advertisements.

fuck being bombarded with literal propaganda all day.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 102 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Technical education opens doors, or your child.

Please don’t open my child.

[–] frosty@pawb.social 4 points 23 hours ago

I saw this, too, and I don't even have a child.

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[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m surprised that’s legal. You’d think it would distract other drivers

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