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alkonaut on Aug 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is America stuck with bad headlights?

If the regulation isn't "55 Watts or equivalent brightness to 55W incandescent" then the regulation is pretty dumb. I mean it has to have a minimum brightness (regardless of power use), so why not a maximum brightness rather than a maximum power too?

Ancapistani on Aug 3, 2020 [–]

I’m not sure if it even has a minimum brightness.

kube-system on Aug 4, 2020 | [–]

Anyone remember sealed-beam headlights?

other_herbert on Aug 4, 2020 | | [–]

My grandfathers 53 Chevy truck has them high beams or low beams, no one will be blinded by them

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