r/lastweektonight • u/CompetitivePanda7675 • 4d ago

We need the episode about headlights

Because of the writer strike John scrapped doing an episode about the history , money behind and hopefully the what we can do to fix the blinding headlights that cause accidents on a regular basis and I feel like it’s an important topic we don’t pay attention to enough

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u/bluehawk232 4d ago

Still find it wild cars are getting bright AF LEDs but our street lights still look like the dim as hell ones from the 80s

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u/rihanoa 4d ago

I think the street light issue is more of a local issue for your town. Most places aren’t going to replace them until they are EOL.

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u/MehTattooFartist 4d ago

For some reason, Stephen King's most overused phrase (imo) comes to mind... Arc sodium streetlights.

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u/TPlain940 4d ago

I want this

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u/caintowers 3d ago

Agreed. There is incredible tech available around the world we just don't have access to, for no good reason. The school bus I drive every day for work is limited by regulation to the same round headlights once standard in all road vehicles-- and to be clear, they are incredibly dim. Then we somehow have non-commercial vehicles on the road with LED headlights capable of (near) temporary blindness. There is a middle ground available in adaptive headlight systems.

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u/bakingeyedoc 2d ago

Headlights are not bad by any stretch. The issue is 1) people using high beams 2) people installing new lights and not installing them properly.

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u/Odin1806 1d ago

So close to having the "thing" happen. Like 7 or 8 posts up in my feed is a me-irl post about headlights...

But yeah, I wear sunglasses during the day and at night...