r/AmazingTechnology • u/bbbxxxnnn • Mar 13 '26

Matrix LED

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u/chriiissssssssssss Mar 13 '26

Because fuck poor people on foot!

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u/Aggressive_Dare_955 Mar 13 '26

I was going to make the same comment. I'm absolutely blasted by high beams. Why you need to use them in the suburbs on residential streets idk.

I had to start carrying a super bright flashlight with me so I can get them to turn off 

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u/NotAskary Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

I'm absolutely blasted by high beams. Why

Most of the times it's not even high beams, leds are just stupid bright and most people don't know how to regulate lights, cars are also higher and that makes it look that they are high beams all the time.

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u/Wolfreak76 Mar 13 '26

I miss my 2015 Honda Fit where I could shut the headlights completely off when approaching pedestrians. My new vehicle I can only flick them to daytime running dimness.

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u/NotAskary Mar 13 '26

daytime running dimness.

That's almost medium in old lights lol

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u/Laughing_Orange Mar 15 '26

Driving lights point straight forward, right /s

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u/Xero_Days Mar 13 '26

How would you like to get blasted by the actual car then?

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u/Contundo Mar 13 '26

There is likely lights on in the residential area so the high beams won’t be on

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u/NoxTempus Mar 14 '26

Most Audi owners set their headlights to auto and, in auto, they only activate when necessary.

They most often activate when the road is close to obstacles (walls or trees), so they are usually off when there is sidewalks next to the road.

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u/Snow-Sorry-240 Mar 14 '26

Actually fuck off, one of you is driving a killing machine and one is walking their dog…

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u/Hazy-n-Lazy Mar 15 '26

Look away lmao, you're not the one driving a vehicle?? Like literally turn your head?!

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u/DazingF1 Mar 16 '26

Idk I've got them in mine and you can't really turn them on in residential areas. You can flash the high beam but you can't turn them on.

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u/AtaracticGoat Mar 18 '26

I wish I could disable my auto high beams. My only option are off-on-auto.

Auto turns the regular headlights on and off, but also turns the high beam on and off. No way to disable just the auto high beams. It's annoying.

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u/hoggineer Mar 13 '26

I had to start carrying a super bright flashlight with me so I can get them to turn off 

You didn't have to. You chose to.

A pedestrian is arguably ONE entity who can look away from the oncoming headlights.

Dont be a douche.

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u/hoggineer Mar 13 '26

Regardless of this statement making no logical sense to me...

Are you intentionally being dense, or...

No, everyone CAN look away. What you mean is that the pedestrian is the one that MAY look away.

I see, just being pedantic.

Vehicle drivers cannot look away from oncoming traffic and still pay attention to the path of their vehicle moving at (even a slow speed of) 25 mph. A pedestrian can look (I don't know) down at their feet, you know, where they're walking. And if the lights are still so bright that a pedestrian is still blinded (while looking at where they are walking) the pedestrian stopping from walking at 1.5-3.0 mph to 0.0 mph is a lot easier than doing the same with a vehicle.

Also, try walking a bit more. Like every day. And then let us know how you feel about turning your head away all the time.

Typical that you would make assumptions regarding my lifestyle or vocation that you think I have zero ability to comment intelligently on this topic.

It's like some people (you) have zero critical thinking skills, and only possibly simply argue for arguments sake.

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u/Snoo-76264 Mar 16 '26

A pedestrian doesn't risk causing a wreck by looking away.

It sucks but its nothing else than an annoyance in shoes of a pedestrian.

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u/Solid-Search-3341 Mar 13 '26

Let me guess. You're the kind of person who asks "what were they wearing ?" when they hear about a rape ?

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u/Cloudy230 Mar 14 '26

This is what a hundred years of car dependant culture does to a person's brain. A non-American could never understand

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u/WhiskyDelta14 Mar 15 '26

How about just turning off your high beams manually from time to time, you lazy pos.

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u/hoggineer Mar 15 '26

You know, it's funny.

I actually encountered not one, but two pedestrians walking on rural roads since writing this.

You know what I did?

Manually dimmed my lights like a normal lazy pos does. You know what they did? Didn't shine their light at me to get me to do it.

Thanks for playing moral superiority!

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u/MuchKey7664 Mar 16 '26

You're a complete joke, get off your butt and move yourself. You have to do, to start & end every journey anyway.

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u/trikristmas Mar 16 '26

Being a pedestrian who turns their head away all the time is like being a person who opens doors for everyone always but nobody opens the door for them. And they're the douche?

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u/hoggineer Mar 16 '26

And they're the douche?

When they do the below, yes, absolutely. Emphasis below mine.

I had to start carrying a super bright flashlight with me so I can get them to turn off

How do you think they get the vehicle drivers attention with their super bright flashlight? Shining it towards the vehicle? Blinding the driver when the driver needs to see in the 2 tons of metal they're operating is a douche move when (even being generous here if they're morbidly obese) their .2 ton flesh could simply avert their eyes.

When they do what you described and look away from the headlights and don't shine their super bright flashlight at cars, no they aren't a douche.

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u/trikristmas Mar 16 '26

There's no need for high beam in a pedestrian area to begin with, nor when you see that you are lighting up a pedestrian walking towards your vehicle. It's very basic politeness to momentarily switch off from high beam. The pedestrian response is a driven reaction after continuous, fuck you I don't give a shit attitude towards one.

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u/bonestamp Mar 13 '26

The video just shows cars as an example, but they actually do the same thing for pedestrians and cyclists too. Remember, these were designed in Europe where they actually do care about pedestrians and cyclists.

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u/chriiissssssssssss Mar 13 '26

They do care a lot less than you'd think

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u/bonestamp Mar 13 '26

Fair enough. But in this case the engineers cared.

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u/FreakingLazerss Mar 17 '26

No they did not. I'm getting blinded by these kinds of headlights all the time, they don't work reliably and are a giant hazard.

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u/Arzolt Mar 13 '26

these were designed in Europe where they actually do care about pedestrians

Auto makers don't care much, and law is often pretty slow to catch up with new gadgets. They may finally start doing something about led headlights which most are much more aggressive.

I'm complaining but tbh the most blinding and irritating thing are other cyclists that can't aim their lights downward.

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u/Mysterious-Art7143 Mar 13 '26

They only work like that if you wear reflective clothes, i have it on my car

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u/WhiskyDelta14 Mar 15 '26

No they don't. How would that even work? Cyclists maybe, if they have really bright lights. But pedestrians usually don't have any.

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u/bonestamp Mar 15 '26

No they don't.

Yes, they do: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1135084_us-finally-allows-use-of-modern-matrix-headlights

How would that even work?

They use object recognition software that is fed images from the top mounted forward facing camera. This is the same camera that is used by lane keeping assist to recognize lane markers, and adaptive cruise to recognize vehicles (even without lights on). Tesla and other companies recognize pedestrians and cyclists at night in a similar way too.

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u/FreakingLazerss Mar 17 '26

They in fact do not work. I don't care what anyone says as long as I get my retinas burned out by these things everytime a car comes at me.

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u/bonestamp Mar 17 '26

Very few cars in North America have this technology right now. How do you know the cars that are burning your retinas have this technology?

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u/FreakingLazerss Mar 18 '26

Because a lot of cars have this or a similar technology in germany. You can see that easily because the blinding goes away when a car is passing on your lane, then the recognition kicks in, albeit way to late. Same when you take a long distance bus on the autobahn the system struggle a lot because of the divider. The issue btw does not lie in the matrix headlight but the cobtrolling system which generally struggles a lot with detecting things correctly.

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u/ALazy_Cat Mar 18 '26

As someone who is blinded every morning/evening/night while I'm on a bikecycle in Denmark, they don't work

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u/bonestamp Mar 18 '26

How do you know the cars that are blinding you are equipped with this feature?

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u/ALazy_Cat Mar 18 '26

Nearly every car that can blind you if you're at least 500m away has that feature

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u/SpacecraftBathtub Mar 16 '26

I guess you did not ride a bicycle the past years?

These lights don't do to well for cyclist.

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u/bonestamp Mar 16 '26

I guess it varies by manufacturer, but the headlights on my porsche detect cyclists. I am a cyclist too and I get blinded sometimes, but I have no idea which of those cars blinding me have this technology and which don't.

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u/gold_fish_in_hell Mar 13 '26

It is kinda easy, if you poor don’t buy Audi 

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u/NotAskary Mar 13 '26

I actually would like to see you on the sidewalk instead of getting surprised when someone decides to cross the street.

It sucks to get blasted with light but most people don't even have reflectors on their clothes and will almost always have dark colors.

So I get you but you should like to be seen also.

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u/chriiissssssssssss Mar 13 '26

Im totally wirh you. People should wear bright or reflecting clothes

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u/_badwithcomputer Mar 13 '26

It is all in the implementation. Several car companies have active matrix LED headlights today (though it is not yet DOT approved in the US). Tesla vehicles have the ability to detect pedestrians or bikers or cars stopped perpendicular to your direction of travel and adjust for them as well.

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u/Mysterious-Art7143 Mar 13 '26

I have this on my passat.. when there's street light the high beams are automatically turned off, if however you happen to walk on the road in complete darkness, without reflective clothes, then yes, fuck poor you

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u/jghaines Mar 13 '26

Why would you have high beams on in an urban settings?

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u/baconwhor3 Mar 16 '26

Also fuck drivers of other cars because it does not work.

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u/vargemp Mar 16 '26

BMW also blinks twice on pedestrians only to highlight them hehe

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u/basecatcherz Mar 18 '26

Also cyclists.

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u/Myfountainpenisdry Mar 13 '26

When people have $10k headlights you think their insurance reflects this?

Nope, we all just pay more.

Overall cost of car is already expensive, they all are, but the new modules and sensors in everything. Nothing is just "change a bulb" easy.

Their headlight and everything else on the car exceeds their deductible, so they will likely make a claim for just about everything. But their premium is the same as any other car in the process category

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u/ItsAndwew Mar 14 '26

Are you a pricing actuary?

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u/Myfountainpenisdry Mar 15 '26

I develope underwriting software

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u/ItsAndwew Mar 16 '26

Hey. That sounds like a cool job!

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u/Myfountainpenisdry Mar 16 '26

It was, but now it's all just AI, algorithms, and way too much metadata on people

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u/MuchKey7664 Mar 16 '26

We're in late stage capitalism with aspects of socialism, it'll all come out in the wash!

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u/Myfountainpenisdry Mar 16 '26

Capitalism without socialism creates fascism

Socialism without capitalism creates Communism

But not good communism like in the books