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alternative headlight bulbs?
I've gotten a new driver's side headlight assembly from one of the members here recently; and am curious about aftermarket bulb potential upgrades, from the stock types I've now installed?
Unfortunately, I've recently replaced both bulbs; so will probably be quite awhile before thinking about renewing them. Otherwise, I'm convinced some of the brighter alternatives, may also be more benign than what I've previously noticed of brighter bulbs; which have seemed too grossly offensive to use, imho. Anyone with better intelligence, is here welcome to enlighten?
I'm often convinced there is a huge amount of overkill technologically, in the area of nighttime illumination; for instance what the yuppie crowd seems to think essential pedaling their bikes around after dark. You can't even find generator light kits anymore, and have to rely upon rechargeable gear which seems nearly as bright as a car's.
What I'm often imagining is that using higher and higher powered lights on any vehicles, or for the road's stationary illumination on lamp standards and such; is counter productive, creating increased glare, and blinding light from on-coming vehicles both. Easy to notice for instance during rainy situations which often seem to amplify such effects, considerably. Anyone with experience, knows how their eyes adapt to the dark; growing increasingly sensitive as light grows dimmer and darkness prevails: Which often seems a fact of life, ignored in night driving technology.
I'd guess that manufacturers and government agencies do little to make production of vehicle lights meet general standards which have been well thought out and/or tested? Not to mention anything as creative as for instance, building such things with an advanced degree of sophistication; allowing for say serious design in windshields and/or glasses, which could greatly contribute to vision improvement, in concert with carefully matched lighting.
As someone more or less proletarian, plebeian, probably prosaic as well as provincial and likely parochial to boot; I associate the horrifically bright lights sometimes seen burning into one's eyes worse than accidental cayenne while cooking and/or a forest defender activist's trials with pepper spray-given the deadly potentials on the road at speed; with those of greater wealth and access to more costly accessories. A crowd of which must be admitted, they probably have few interests as motivating for them as their automobiles; so that ultimately the solution of the sorts of problems I've just been writing of, seem at least vaguely destined to come about.
Thus, I'm certainly willing to bet, that there are perhaps evolving good alternatives which do offer improved illumination sans the aforementioned negatives; without getting off the scale of rationality, like some of the combat derived night-vision gear one sees represented in the movies and elsewhere. I'm of course also interested in economy; so appreciate costs which aren't too much more than for standard equipment.
Unfortunately, I've recently replaced both bulbs; so will probably be quite awhile before thinking about renewing them. Otherwise, I'm convinced some of the brighter alternatives, may also be more benign than what I've previously noticed of brighter bulbs; which have seemed too grossly offensive to use, imho. Anyone with better intelligence, is here welcome to enlighten?
I'm often convinced there is a huge amount of overkill technologically, in the area of nighttime illumination; for instance what the yuppie crowd seems to think essential pedaling their bikes around after dark. You can't even find generator light kits anymore, and have to rely upon rechargeable gear which seems nearly as bright as a car's.
What I'm often imagining is that using higher and higher powered lights on any vehicles, or for the road's stationary illumination on lamp standards and such; is counter productive, creating increased glare, and blinding light from on-coming vehicles both. Easy to notice for instance during rainy situations which often seem to amplify such effects, considerably. Anyone with experience, knows how their eyes adapt to the dark; growing increasingly sensitive as light grows dimmer and darkness prevails: Which often seems a fact of life, ignored in night driving technology.
I'd guess that manufacturers and government agencies do little to make production of vehicle lights meet general standards which have been well thought out and/or tested? Not to mention anything as creative as for instance, building such things with an advanced degree of sophistication; allowing for say serious design in windshields and/or glasses, which could greatly contribute to vision improvement, in concert with carefully matched lighting.
As someone more or less proletarian, plebeian, probably prosaic as well as provincial and likely parochial to boot; I associate the horrifically bright lights sometimes seen burning into one's eyes worse than accidental cayenne while cooking and/or a forest defender activist's trials with pepper spray-given the deadly potentials on the road at speed; with those of greater wealth and access to more costly accessories. A crowd of which must be admitted, they probably have few interests as motivating for them as their automobiles; so that ultimately the solution of the sorts of problems I've just been writing of, seem at least vaguely destined to come about.
Thus, I'm certainly willing to bet, that there are perhaps evolving good alternatives which do offer improved illumination sans the aforementioned negatives; without getting off the scale of rationality, like some of the combat derived night-vision gear one sees represented in the movies and elsewhere. I'm of course also interested in economy; so appreciate costs which aren't too much more than for standard equipment.
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