I know I’m not the only one who feels like I’m getting visually assaulted everytime I drive at night. It was bad 10 years ago but now, it seems like headlight manufacturers have a deal with insurance companies and optometrists to make the lights as bright as possible. Is this ever going to stop or is there some kind of race in the headlight industry to see who can reproduce the power of the sun first?
I think you’re over estimating the amount of influence the US auto market has had.
*had
And it was eminence. But maybe with their fall we can get cool IR cars again.
Are you correcting my post or yours? I was speaking in the past tense.
Oh no, just agreeing on the tense. Hope that it stays that way.
I’m still not sure we’re in agreement, but maybe we are? I’m saying the US auto market has never had enough influence to block a cost-effective safety feature from appearing on foreign markets. Another person pointed out that the IR HUD was used on a luxury car and the high cost probably prevented its widespread use.
It did appear, but never went main stream. The cost was high, but like projector bulbs if mainstream produced the cost would come down.
Of course the cost would come down (slightly) if a new tech goes mainstream, but you don’t think an IR HUD could become as cheap as regular headlights, do you?
I do, they are not really much different from what is put in cars today. HUD? We put screens on everything, IR? its just a bulb type. IR cameras? Its a camera.
There’s a lot more that goes into to than you think. A camera and HUD will never be as cheap as a bulb and a reflector.