HID conversions?

Ho yuss, those mbt boys are making lights with over 2000 lumens

 

That makes sense. However, I think it makes more sense for both
parties to have the wick turned down so that you're driving partly on
night vision.

It used to be, and may still be (paging davethedave), that in
countries like Turkey drivers coming towards each other would take it
in turns to switch off their headlights completely for several seconds
so that the other driver could see more. It worked partly because the
overall brightness of headlights was far less than it is now, but you
could see and you weren't blinded. There's far too much traffic for it
to work here, but it is an example of the brighter not always being
the better.

 

Certainly seems to be the case in Egypt that lights are turned off
outside of towns, not really sure that's good or not.

 

They certainly do that in Egypt. Good idea me thinks.

 

Precisely how is that sloppy thinking?

ar?bi?tra?ry [See pronunciation table in "How to use dictionary" pages]
decided or arranged without any reason or plan, often unfairly:

Seems to be quite the reverse of sloppy (depending on your choice of
definition of 'reason' of course)


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Perhaps "sloppy" is the wrong word - "lazy" might be better. Let me
give an example.

Suppose I need to decide, for whatever reason, whether or not someone
(a man) is "clean shaven". An hour after he has shaved clearly he
will be. A month after he's shaved he clearly won't.

You could easily claim that it's impossible for me to say whether or
not someone's clean shaven simply because I would have to fix some
arbitrary point during that month where the man changes from being
clean shaven to not. But, if I were an officer in the armed forces,
for example, I might need to decide just that.

You could take it a stage further, and start trying to tie me down to
the precise minute when he lost his "clean shaven" status.

Ok, "sloppy" is the wrong word. But do you see what I'm getting at?
Claiming that you can't divide a continuum simply because where you
draw the line to divide it must of necessity be arbitrary is lazy,
intellectually.

 

There are no time limits. You can argue until the Amazons rock up.

 

Then it's an opinion. I don't think any officer would argue otherwise.

Yes. As most people do you have an opinion and you are trying to work
out some way in which it seems to be fact so you can argue that you're
right, and everyone who disagrees is wrong. This is normal human behaviour.

I made no such claim. I simply aimed to point out that your *opinion*
that HID's [1] are 'unecessarily bright' is just that, an opinion. Other
people have different ones, just a valid.

[1]And there's a generalisation.


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I've always thought the idea of only allowing sidelights in built-up,
street lit, areas was a good one.

There is enough light to see by, no one gets dazzled, sides are enough
for others to see you, and cyclists and peds will be more visible
because they don't get lost in the light arms race.

 

I've bought new bikes where on turning on the lights for the first
time the beam is aimed skyward - so much for PDI.