This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.
Stage coach?
I’m fortunate that the bins on my street are collected twice-daily. The trade-off is that the bins lorries have LED sides. Lights up my entire bedroom when they pull up. I’m also opposite a pub, so every Wednesday morning starting around 7 it’s non-stop clanging from barrel deliveries. I live above two shopfronts, so every morning through midnight is bullshit noises. I live under a lamppost, so the council putting up Christmas lights means a cherry picker staring through my windows. I’m just bitching, but the LED buses and lorries are fuckin wild.
How does your city produce enough trash to justify pickups twice daily? That’s fuckin’ wild lol
It’s London mate, twice a day rubbish pickup on my street and the fuckin place is still full of rats. Still, cheap protein in a pot noodle innit! Some of those fuckers are bigger than cats, fearsome bastards.
In my area once in awhile I’ll see this box truck where it’s covered in LED screens with animated ads on it that drives around. Annoying at best, a road hazard at worst.
Same here, and great that it’s wasting gas and polluting at the same time! I hate it with a burning passion.
They drive these up and down the Las Vegas strip, which generally is snarled with traffic. So adding to traffic too.
I think such things are banned in Australia. Clearly not safe for traffic.
Which is strange since we have full size electronic billboards (in WA). I don’t believe they can have scrolling text/animations etcs, but they will change once or twice in the time you can see them at fwy speeds.
They are super repulsive to me because they are more vibrant and attention demanding than traditional printed billboards (especially in low light conditions) and feel like late 90’s pop-up ads.Also i dont need a ~25m² screen changing in my peripheral vision when im already busy keeping to keep an eye on some dickhead in a lifted ford raptor or Yank Tank who is cutting through traffic.
Yeah it’s ok on a static object by law, but not on a moving vehicle.
And yes, even here in Armidale we have about four of them, and they don’t seem to have night dimming so can be a bit blinding.
It looks like a UK bus. If you want to help make the bus company’s life miserable there is a useful trick. This is the sort of thing a lot of parish council members will get disproportionately angry about. They also tend to have far less to do than higher bits of government. They also know a lot more about the inner workings of local government, and who’s ear to burn about it. A politely written letter (or a few from several people) can get them up in arms about it.
Once you set that in motion, wait a week or 2, then also contact the local papers about it. I’ve seen them roll with far smaller stories than this.
Neither group has much/any hard power, but the soft power of the NIMBY croud can be extremely effective against public facing companies.
Edit to add.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/artificial-light-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints
It could be argued that that light is a statutory nuisance.
At the very least, can they not be blue? It’s the worst color at night.
Red would be best–it fucks with your eyes the least–but there’s often legal limits on red lights (besides brake/turn signals) on non-emergency vehicles. Something in orange or yellow would be less harsh.
I’m sure I’ve seen them with the side panel showing the route the bus was travelling on.
No surprise that they eventually gave that up for ad money.
Next step will be to have that screen in colour and animated. And speakers.
You mean like these?
Saw one of those yesterday. Should be super illegal, they’re so bright.
Wake up babe, new Ad Block just dropped.
I always keep an eye out for the comments that would be the most incomprehensible shown in the last century.
to whomever invented
LEDadvertisements.fuck being bombarded with literal propaganda all day.
Having been to Manchester very recently, I can think of bigger things to complain about.
(Not that I have room to talk, being in Blackburn.)
How is your move to the UK going? How do you find it compared to the US?
I love it so much more than the U.S., but I really need to find a job that pays enough to get my wife over here and get my daughter off a tourist visa. But it has only been two weeks.
Anyway, just the fact that, despite the British having a reputation for rudeness, people here are so nice and helpful compared to everyone’s “fuck you, I got my own shit going on” attitude in the U.S. We have had so many people, total strangers, help us in one way or another in the past two weeks.
The rudeness comes from London mostly. When you pack people too close together, they tend to develop a bunch of social rules, to keep sane. Those rules are unspoken and dynamic. That also cause an impressive reaction when you break them by mistake. It’s quite common worldwide, but London it particular about them.
Once you’re clear of the big smoke, and get a feel for the lingo and etiquette, we are actually quite a friendly bunch.
Same goes for LED headlights. “Enjoy looking directly into lasers at night.”
Multi-beam and Matrix LED headlights will cut oncoming traffic out of their beams. They’ll blind you less than any other type of headlight. You can see it best when driving in fog. It’s not expensive tech in 2025 either, that’ a damn Škoda Octavia in the video, I rode in one the other day and it had cheaper plastics in the interior than my first car, a 1992 Audi 80.
It’s mis-aligned headlights that cause the most problems. And people retrofitting HIDs or LEDs into enclosures that are not meant for those.
Whoever*
Whom is an object, who is a subject. An object usually follows prepositions like “to”, so it’s good instinct to use whomever here, but in this case the object is the entire clause “whoever invented …”, so the whoever is the subject of the verb invented.
seriously though whom the fuck cares
Truly mildly infuriating. Nicely done.
I read
"Technical Education Opens Doors
OR
Your Child"
I though it was a threat to either go to college, or satan takes your child as a sacrifice for being ignorant.
We for real need to start legislating and enforcing brightness laws. These headlights are out of control. This thing is an abomination.
There is no rhyme or reason for anything beyond a reasonable street lamp and headlight. We kept asking could we, it’s time to ask should we? If nothing else I miss seeing stars at night
In Mexico they have 10 x 30 meter (say, 30 by 100 foot) led billboards that you can literally see 10 kilometers away.
Fuck. Everything. About. That.
Those should just “accidentally” get painted
The issue with a lot of LED lights isn’t brightness, its beam dip. The light should be angled downwards so it never shines into the oncoming traffic.
Unfortunately, a lot of retrofitted brighter bulbs don’t play nicely with the beam dips. Car companies also err towards helping their diver, rather than the oncoming ones.
The brightness is absolutely a problem, it doesn’t matter how well they are adjusted, when the car hits a bump or comes over a crest, it’s going to blind oncoming traffic
That’s still a problem, but it’s not a new one. There’s always been the issue that lights bright enough to see ahead reliably are also bright enough to dazzle. It’s also a lot easier to cope with a quick flash, however, rather than continuous glare.
Im not sure if you’ve actually seen bright German LED headlights, because they are otherworldly. Older lights, even bright Xenon lights are no match for those blinding LEDs
I fully agree, there’s some stupid ones out there. But they are actually less common than you initially think.
I spend far too long going up and down the motorways. I get bored and start comparing the various problematic cars. Most lack the nice clean cut off line, or it’s set so high as to be invisible. I’ve rarely been dazzled by cars with a properly set beam dip. It’s either high beams, or messed up beam dip.
What made you unable to look in a different direction?
Sir, this is c/mildlyinfuriating, let me whinge in peace.
Really? Count the things you’re not allowed to show in public. It’s almost like you can’t go through life with your eyes literally closed so the world doesn’t bother you.
You have to know that, though, so you must be trolling.
