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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Blue isn't better for increasing vision during night:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...dvantages.html
Edit: this was the first thing I found when I googled HID and visibility keywords, I can dig up more if you like.
So it's just cranking up the brightness, which annoys the hell out of me, I do a lot of night time driving and all of my vehicles are relatively low. Every time I drive a car with HID's I feel like my high beams are on all the time except for the cutoff bit, if I need to see extra distance I use the high beams, that's what they're for. I feel better with halogens because they don't annoy other drivers and allow me to see well.
Factor in the initial cost difference and it's a no brainer for me.
You can talk about how if they're set up properly and balast yada yada, I don't like the trend (fucking tesla's look great until they're tailgating you at midnight) and I hope it goes away. I'm not going to tell everyone to die in a fire for using them, I just don't like them and I put my money where my mouth is.
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No need for more info, I'm done a fair share of researching automotive lighting, and Daniel Stern is pretty much the go-to when people want a source of "how come the HID kit in my 95 Civic is blinding everyone?" I absolutely loved the HID setup on my MKV GTI. I did a lot of night driving when I owned it, out in the countryside where I had no street lights and there were deer everywhere, but enough traffic that I couldn't run highs all the time. But yes, it's very much a matter of getting the beam pattern correct with no or minimal hot spots, and the drop-in kits that really are just "cranking up the brighness" annoy me.
I don't see them going away though. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually became the standard with LED being the step up. Or maybe LED becoming standard, who knows? Not just for safety's sake, but efficiency as well.