• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    It is really, really, stupid there are no laws regulating this, but Canada can do nothing unless US does it and that won’t happen.

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      7 days ago

      There are a lot of lighting laws for this stuff, just nobody has enforced it

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        7 days ago

        There are no max headlight brightness laws in Canada.

        Halogens are 1200 lumens, but these LEDs are three times that, then some asshole lifts his truck and doesn’t re-aim them, because bright lights are yet another penis surrogate. But the bigger problem in Canada is we do not periodically safety inspect vehicles at all, so morons go crazy on Alibaba.

        In most countries, vehicles are inspected annually after three years from new.

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          I guess I mean we have lighting laws or maybe standard is the proper term for NorthAmerican lighting with various US SAE and Canadian motor vehicle SAE regulations for headlight design /aiming. A company I worked for used to work with headlamp and tail lamp data and had a light testing tunnel.

          But you throw in a bulb with the wrong focal length for your cars parabola and you get splayed light in all directions instead of a parallel aimed beam. In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket

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            6 days ago

            In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket

            People pass on shoulders now and police do fuck all.

            Brodozers have wheels extending several inches beyond fenders and police do nothing. People are putting pretty colors on their DRLs and police do nothing. You can even drive around with a bare aluminum licence plate and no one cares. Little point in laws when they aren’t enforced.

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      6 days ago

      Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.