I was braging abut my X-tra ligths.

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-21 06:43pm

And this is why. and remember that light is life on the road.

NORMAL Hi beam on my car.

And this below is with the extra lights on.

To the end of the road is approx, 400meters.

So why get extra lights? well you can really blast the face of those who don dip there lights!

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-03-21 06:47pm

It's all fun and games until a 747 tries to land on your roof. Your car must be about as bright as a city...

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-21 06:50pm

Bounty wrote:It's all fun and games until a 747 tries to land on your roof. Your car must be about as bright as a city...

hummm. Must stop urge to go to airport.

it is bright. and the police hawed follow me and at least one car is now fitted with the same lights.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-03-22 12:48am

People who get uber bright lights should be shot. It's all fun and games until you're blinded by these lights or by bright HID lights which BURN my eyeballs arrrg.

If you can't see that well, fuckin slowdown

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2007-03-22 01:00am

It's strange agreeing with Shep, but yes, I hate people with extra-bright lights. Especially those different kinds that aren't that bright but are like welder torches and sear your eyeballs if you look too closely at them and give me a headache.

If you have to see that far down the road, maybe you can try some sort of infrared vision/nightvision system that certain cars seem to have. Mostly luxury cars now, but maybe that technology will filter down in the future.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-03-22 01:07am

Apparently HIDs are ACTUALLY welder's torches. They work by electrical arcs; and they're actually in reverse, with a mirrored surface reflecting the light. Otherwise, they would actually burn your eyeballs permanently for real.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-03-22 01:11am

When I'm riding my bike late at night, I notice two kinds of car headlights. One kind that is tolerable, and another kind that blinds me.

When driving mountain roads, especially when it's a very dark night and you're on hills, turning, extra-bright lights are not only evil, they're a danger to anybody you're heading towards. I've been on the receiving end of this, and let me tell you, I was honestly afraid for my life.

Even when you're in the city at night, driving along lit roadways, these lights just BURN, like nothing else. Sure, you may feel safe and secure, knowing that you can see the road in front of you, but what about those people that are blinded by your light, can't see in front of them, and swerve over into your lane, hitting you?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2007-03-22 01:05pm

Nice lights!

But the sunny season is comming, we just passed the equinox, it is only getting brighter

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-22 01:12pm

Shinova wrote:It's strange agreeing with Shep, but yes, I hate people with extra-bright lights. Especially those different kinds that aren't that bright but are like welder torches and sear your eyeballs if you look too closely at them and give me a headache.

If you have to see that far down the road, maybe you can try some sort of infrared vision/nightvision system that certain cars seem to have. Mostly luxury cars now, but maybe that technology will filter down in the future.

The problem here is the wild life. like mousse and deer's they are bloody impossibles to see if you dot turn on every thing. and even then they are hard to see.

nigthtvision is a good idea but i don't want lose focus on the road.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-03-22 02:50pm

Then drive fucking slower moron, if hitting deer is a problem.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-03-22 02:57pm

MKSheppard wrote:Apparently HIDs are ACTUALLY welder's torches. They work by electrical arcs; and they're actually in reverse, with a mirrored surface reflecting the light. Otherwise, they would actually burn your eyeballs permanently for real.

One big problem with aftermarket HIDs is that most people who upgrade use the normal headlight lens ... which isn't designed with the brighter HIDs in mind. Cue ultra-bright car coming up on you (on other cars with, say, stock HIDs, I rarely find it problematic).

Then there are those morons who seemingly get extra-bright HIDs and headlights specifically designed to spread out their hideously bright light far and wide.

It's bad enough driving in Florida without those fools blinding everyone in front of them!

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-22 04:58pm

Faram wrote:Nice lights!

But the sunny season is comming, we just passed the equinox, it is only getting brighter

oh summer. tourist come and give me $.

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-22 05:01pm

MKSheppard wrote:Then drive fucking slower moron, if hitting deer is a problem.

Well I don't know what make and year your car is but I can use low beam also! so yore ultra sensitive eyes can live a day more. Ligth is good. and more is better!

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-03-22 05:07pm

To be fair to Tranan - You can see that street has zero in the way of side lighting, and that means sometimes Lowbeam lighting simply doesn't get seen by oncoming idiots speeding at a gazillion miles an hour whilst not concentrating on the roads - this especially happens in rural areas, such as where I live, and where I suspect Tranan does as well.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2007-03-22 10:03pm

Shinova wrote:It's strange agreeing with Shep, but yes, I hate people with extra-bright lights. Especially those different kinds that aren't that bright but are like welder torches and sear your eyeballs if you look too closely at them and give me a headache.

HID lights are actually three times brighter than halogen filament bulbs on average. It's just that they're almost always focussed by a projector lens rather than a complex-reflector as with halogens. Since projectors have a smaller surface area and focus the light more sharply, from certain angles they will appear dimmer.

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-23 04:29am

Dartzap wrote:To be fair to Tranan - You can see that street has zero in the way of side lighting, and that means sometimes Lowbeam lighting simply doesn't get seen by oncoming idiots speeding at a gazillion miles an hour whilst not concentrating on the roads - this especially happens in rural areas, such as where I live, and where I suspect Tranan does as well.

Thank you. I live and work in one of the darkest places in southern Sweden. And people who don't live here do not understand.

Tranan · Post by **Tranan** » 2007-03-23 04:37am

Ma Deuce wrote:
Shinova wrote:It's strange agreeing with Shep, but yes, I hate people with extra-bright lights. Especially those different kinds that aren't that bright but are like welder torches and sear your eyeballs if you look too closely at them and give me a headache.
HID lights are actually three times brighter than halogen filament bulbs on average. It's just that they're almost always focussed by a projector lens rather than a complex-reflector as with halogens. Since projectors have a smaller surface area and focus the light more sharply, from certain angles they will appear dimmer.

and when the halogen lights came there were folks who try to ban the bulbs from the market so. this talk about hdi will die out.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2007-03-23 05:55am

High beams are a useful tool, as long as they aren't used incorrectly. The idea is to turn them off when oncoming cars are within (I think) 200m. It's actually in the laws here, though I don't have time to look them up at the moment.