(OPINION!) LED Replacement Headlamp Bulbs

"Humans are horrible judges of how well thay can actually see, and this is provable time and again by those with actual equipment to do so"

I tried confirming this with the opposition and all I got in response was "Moooooo"

The difference driving between the USA and Mexico is staggering. Especially at night. If the highway has striping you can bet your butt the paint does not contain reflective glass beads. Barbed wire fence? Look hard and you might find a photo of a barbed wire fence in some magazine.

The ultimate adjudication down here is THE GRIM REAPER. Tens of thousands of highway shrines called capillas (kah-PEE-yahs) attest to the fact.

But driving home 77 miles on a deserted road with little color difference between "pavement" and shoulder had me running off the shoulder four-five-six times I lost count. The headlights had been aimed in the USA and it wasn't cheap.

I installed the LED replacement bulbs. The next trip home made me laugh - the edge of the pavement screamed out visually. Instead of crawling at 25 mph, I passed oncoming cars safely at 50 mph. After, say five hundred oncoming cars did not blink me down on low beam, WHEREAS EVERY ONCOMING CAR blinked me down when I had conventional bulbs and forgot to dim, I can safely assume the LEDs are suitably accurate in projection.

Effort should be made to correct idiots who drive around with mis aligned headlights. Or install aftermarket lamps and drive around with them illuminated and who fail to extinguish them when challenged.

It's like one of my circuits that gets criticized by an "E=MC2" theorist. Ten thousand formulas and not a one of them worth frog snot.

I do see ads on eBay for more expensive very high wattage LED lamps. Idiots will fall all over themselves trying to find the consummate energy hog. The type of person who T-Boned me in the USA. I see 1,600 watt CREE light bars. If I jammed three handfull's of "Stupid" pills down my throat I could mount one on the roof and another on the grille. What the heck, it'd only be a 230 amp draw.

The mediator is called "common sense". But I guess these days that term could be confused with "Cannabis Sense". Early on, I learned "You Can't Cure Stupid". Like California spending millions of dollars to eliminate the effects of barbecue lighter fluid. Or a comprehensive study to determine the feasibility of diapers on cows and cattle to reduce emissions of methane cowfarts.

If a person is too lazy to check installed lighting performance and parameters, they should not be driving. Too many people still drive drunk or at high speed on wet roads with bald tires.

So lathering up a froth over DOT stipulations for headlamp lighting just cannot work it's way up the ladder on my personal "G" "A" "S" column of importance.

In theory, adherents of conformity would insist a barrage of 700 nanometer photons (red light) would be infallible in stopping a 5-ton utility truck from running a red light.

Oooooooooo Mex is going to the casa. Mex, is preparing a pair of aluminum strips to go in the toad rear window. Ooooooooo each strip gets a brace of 10mm 160,000 mcd 700 nanometer LEDs. Shining into LED dispersion sheet strips. Oooooooo I bet the knucklehead on their cell phone behind me will see THAT despite their best intention of overlooking my brake lights and 3rd brake light.

It takes effort to counter dulled-sense stupidity. Alcohol, drugs, electronic connectivity demand, and don't give a ---- attitudes has changed the world.

I therefore must DESIGN my lifestyle to avoid artificial situations that can put me six feet under. The most pressing was inadequate lighting. it has been resolved.