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  1. How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

    Excerpt: "Older halogen setups, particularly the reflector housings common through the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, produced a comparatively soft, warm beam with limited reach. They were inefficient, generated excessive heat, and scattered light somewhat indiscriminately. But they tended to fail gracefully. Visibility wasn’t exceptional, but neither was the likelihood of accidentally assaulting an oncoming driver’s eyes.

    "Modern systems have an entirely different engineering goal. LEDs consume less power, last far longer, and can emit vastly more light from a much smaller package. Their compactness allows designers to create thinner headlights and more aggressive front-end styling, but it also means the light source itself becomes intensely concentrated. Automakers have additionally shifted toward cooler color temperatures—closer to daylight white than the yellowish glow of old halogens—because we perceive these wavelengths as sharper and more detailed at night.

    "The downside is that blue-white light also produces more glare and discomfort, especially in rain or on poorly marked roads. Add in the current #SUV and #PickupTruck boom, where headlights are mounted higher off the ground than on older sedans, and even correctly aimed low beams can shine directly into the eyeline of drivers in smaller vehicles.

    "Then there’s the escalation effect. Modern vehicles are heavier, faster, quieter, and packed with driver-assistance systems that encourage confident nighttime driving at highway speeds [and encourage drivers to STOP paying attention]. To support that, manufacturers continuously increase forward illumination distance and beam intensity.

    "Adaptive matrix headlights, which can selectively dim portions of the beam to avoid dazzling other drivers while maintaining maximum illumination elsewhere, are theoretically the technological solution to the problem. In practice, though, adoption remains inconsistent, regulations vary by country, and many vehicles still rely on brute-force brightness rather than precision. The result is that nighttime driving increasingly feels less like navigating through darkness and more like surviving a rolling photonics demonstration from the consumer electronics industry.

    "According to 2019 to 2023 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data, 46,154 fatalities on US roads were due to crashes at night and in non-lit areas. 446 were due to glare impeding the driver’s vision."

    arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/h

    #BanBrightHeadlights #BanSUVs #LightPollution #RoadSafety

  2. Nick Heer: “If people are driving bigger and heavier cars over an already-higher speed limit for greater distances while being more likely to be impaired or distracted, that is likely to cause a much higher number of fatalities than can be explained by any one of these factors alone.”
    #suv #pickuptruck #murdermachines #bigpersonalvehicles
    pxlnv.com/linklog/deadly-rise-

  3. FRENCHS' TAKE ON "PICK" FROM THE 90S UNPACKED

    Learn how French speakers used the word 'pick' in the 90s, especially for trucks, and why it's different from English.

    #90sTV, #FrenchLanguage, #WordOrigins, #Linguistics, #PickupTruck

    newsletter.tf/french-90s-tv-pi

  4. The word 'pick' in French 90s TV often meant a 'pick-up truck', not the English meaning of choosing or stealing. This shows how words change between countries.

    #90sTV, #FrenchLanguage, #WordOrigins, #Linguistics, #PickupTruck
    newsletter.tf/french-90s-tv-pi

  5. @Labonitamascota

    Wat habt ihr denn, ey? Super Auto
    V8, 5,7l Hubraum und wenn man moderat fährt nur 14 Liter Super, ansonsten 21 Liter Super auf 100 Kilometer.
    Motto:
    Hubraum ist nur durch Hubraum zu ersetzen.
    Und niemand will was damit komprimieren (sagt man doch so, oder?)
    🤡

    #dummeautos #RAM #pickuptruck

  6. Hallo Fediverse! 👋

    Wir sind Road Ranger — europäischer Hersteller von Hardtops und Zubehör für Pick-ups. Eigene Fertigung, 180 Leute, seit über 30 Jahren.

    Hier posten wir:
    🏔️ Pick-ups im Einsatz — Offroad, Baustelle, Abenteuer
    🔧 Behind the Scenes aus unserer Produktion
    🚗 Hardtop-Wissen für Nerds und Neugierige

    Kein Marketing-Bullshit. Echte Bilder, echte Geschichten.

    #introduction #RoadRanger #PickupTruck #Hardtop #MadeInEurope #Overlanding

  7. #Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of #F150 #PickupTruck
    Once hyped as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ production of the money-losing #EV #pickup may be shut down for good
    #F150Lightning, once described by Ford as a modern #ModelT for its importance to the company, fell far short of expectations as American truck buyers skipped the electric version of the top-selling truck. Ford has racked up $13 billion in EV losses since 2023.
    wsj.com/business/autos/ford-15
    archive.ph/GjrnB

  8. I was shocked to find a pickup truck parked in front of the new firehouse in Collegetown, I was hoping to get a picture of some smiling firefighters, but...

    #photo #photography #ithaca #firefighters #ifd #firstresponders #buildings #architecture #pickuptruck #normalizationofdeviance