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?

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I work in auto parts. I processed warranty returns for about 5 years as my main task for a while. We didn’t get many led bulb warranty/defective returns. Hella, Sylvania, Osram, Heliolite, and can’t remember the other brand we typically sell. Those brands have very very few returns that weren’t “we fucked up and ordered the wrong part”

    Just stop buying cheap shitty bulbs from cheap shitty suppliers

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      5 hours ago

      That would be my recommendation as well. I would guess that the temu bulbs fail because they don’t seem to have any practical means of active cooling No heat sinks or other mode of heat dissipation. Couple that with likely bottom-shelf cob leds, and you are now piloting a seizure-mobile.