Re: Car LED tail lights strobe rate too slow

MaWin <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Mark" <makolber@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1151444786.540701.46940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Anybody else notice that the strobe rate bothers them on the newer cars
with LED taillights.

At night, when the tail lights are dimmed, (brakes not on) and you
look at them and blink or turn your head, the after image is very
strange, you see dashes of light. I find it very annoying and
distracting and I hope that this problem is recognized and corrected
before every car on the road is like this.


10 years ago, the engineers of BMW used modern technology and
significant effort to serve the aggressive drivers of their cars
to annoy the drivers of any other manufacturers car,
by installing xenon front lights with damn increased light output,
ignoring that on wet streets light is shed directly into the eyes
of the driver of an oncoming car, because the water on the streets
acts like a perfect mirror.
It took another 10 years for the engineers of BMW to come up with
a solution to annoy even the drivers of cars following up. It was
difficult, because just like the front lights, the back lights must
also conform to law. Again the newest technology was used to screw
up everyone driving behind a BMW by using far too slowly pulsing
LEDs.
That's BMW, worlds stupidest engineers.

For sheer stupidity, Volvo come a pretty close second. 'Designed' by
salesmen, 'engineered' by work-experience schoolkids (or so it appears).

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