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Originally Posted by SmokenTitan
Trucks are too tall for HID's. I'm still wondering who would really be at fault if you were in a head-on collision with someone because your aftermarket HID's blinded them...
Dont get me wrong, I love HID's as well, my roomie's S2000 has them. I drive an old Civic to and from work and most trucks OEM headlights blind me as it is...
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Trucks are too tall for HID's? What about the increasing number of SUV's that come with them as standard equipment?
I have a Honda Del Sol, and experience blinding only occasionally, usually when the road is not on the same level as oncoming traffic.
You can be blinded by HID's or Halogen's or any light for that matter. The HID's I do not think are the main culprit here, it has much more to do with the beam pattern and dispersion, rather than it being a truck with HIDs. You can stand it front of my truck and it is no more blinding than a truck next to it with traditional lighting. Roll back and look at my picture where the light hits the garage. There is a very defined cut off where the light doesn't rise.
A properly aimed light shouldn't blind you HID or otherwise. I also seriously doubt people tend to wreck with vehicles that do blind them, I would tend to think that most accidents involving blinding would involve them hitting something else. I would think most people would steer away from the light.
However, If a truck has improperly aimed headlamps and switches to HID, it will make it worse. As traditional bulbs put out about 1100 lumens versus around 3000 for HID's.
So far I have never been flashed in my Titan with the traditional bulbs nor the HID bulbs.
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