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[Rant] Police LED lights

I agree I can't stand having those bright lights in my face, and I've always been light sensitive.

IMO someone should be able to sue them for eye damage.

reply to battleop
I completely agree. Their lights are too bright now (even one car) at night. If there are no oncoming cars I have no issue using my high beams to shine some additional light on the road.

A sunny day their lights are not an issue, but there is no reason to use the same amount of strobing power at night where ambient light does not exist.

I have occasionally seen a cop only use the rearward facing lights when pulling over cars. This works great for oncoming traffic, and that's it.

I'll have to remember that, hit high beams at cops. Um nevermind.

reply to swhitney2003
Most of these lightbars have a wire that controls a low power options specifically for this reason, It to be used at night when on the side of the road but sadly they almost never get hooked up to a switch, and even if they do no one uses them.

Its relatively as bright as the bar looks in the day with the sun out and still very visible.
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reply to DarkLogix

Well I'm sure he'd try to give me a ticket for it, and if I used the highbeems on them they could have a reasonable excuse.

Now If due to their lazyness (of not hooking up the low power wire) then I might win the case.

Sorry he got hit at 65mph but it was his own fault. Darwin awards will then have claimed yet another.

I wouldn't say its the officers fault, its the departments for not hooking it up or company that outfits the vehicle.

Ether way not my fault.
And genraly if I do see a cop car ont he side I try to put a few lanes between the shoulder and me, but if there are to many other cars for that then well highbeams would be bad.

you would think there would be an integrated sensor that would automatically adjust the brightness. If my laptop, tablet and cellphone has it, why don't police lights?
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Should be but that would cost tax payiers to much.
Just wire it to the head lights, if they're on then you get low power if the head lights are off then full power, much easier.

most police cars flash the headlights, but most modern cars have a headlight sensor.

reply to battleop
The company I work has been offering a photo-cell option for several years.

»code3pse.com/public/media/ss_c3autodim10.pdf

there goes my patent application.. .

reply to slcpd6469
"Manual intervention is available at any time to turn dimming on or off so officers can control the light output at any time."

I bet it is common for them to turn it off if they know about it.
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reply to battleop

Last summer I was with friends and started to cross the street when a police car that was stopped at he corner for a red light suddenly turned on all his lights and siren and took off.

Now my friends all told me later how that scared the shit out of them. Unfortunately for me I have Epilepsy and I went down with a seizure right there.

For me it went from 9pm on a Friday night to 6am Saturday - all in a blink of an eye. In fact it took me until late Sunday to really fully recover. And I missed work for the entire weekend.

Since then I have had other close calls while in a car, or even talking with friends on the street.

I agree with what the officer said that they need to look at officer safety, but there is a large part of the community that can and do suffer severely for it.



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Not Another Moment Loss To seizures . . . . .

They're there to serve and protect US first not themselves.

So harming innocent civilians due to their carelessness should warrent a firing.

as someone's employer it is you moral responsibility to give your employee every tool available to protect them while working.

So while their job is to protect you, your responsibility is to ensure they are protected.
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Theres only so much you can to to fix stupid actions.

as Ron white said "you can't fix stupid" a cop that causes someone to have a seizure should pay a fine and lose their job.

reply to battleop
Some of the light bars used on LE vehicles will auto-dim once the headlights are turned on.

A lot of the light bars, and most of the dash/deck lights that I use and have seen in use, don't offer that option. In my particular setup, all of my LEDs (Whelen and Strobes-N-More) have no such option to dim. They are on/off/flash pattern/sync.

Now, unlike most, there are a few LEOs that take in account driver safety when utilizing warning lights. I don't turn on my front lights if I'm warning traffic behind my vehicle if I don't need the front lights (keeps rubber-necking down, prevents blinding oncoming traffic).
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