So, just finished reading an article on WaPo about fireflies/lightening bugs and got me thinking further… Car headlights suck. They mess up our night vision when we pass another dickhead running white/blue lights. We mess up the habit(at) of many animals/bugs. So why not red lights? My hiking/camping headlamp has a red light option, which is the only function I use, and I can see fine. Why the FUCK do we still have these ungodly bright white/blue lights?
Because red light are used for tail lights, which you also see when driving. Different light colors allow you to tell if you are looking at the rear or front of the car.
Kind of shocked this logic isn’t obvious. Red lights on cars in low-light conditions already have a very specific, very important meaning.
This and also red lights would not be bright enough. While I think modern LED headlights are way too bright, red lights would be too dark.
Yeah but it’d be nice if we went back to lights occupying the yellow area of the spectrum instead of the blue area of the spectrum. Bkinding I tells ya
Also, we need to be able to read and recognize traffic signs, and those are often color-coded, red having a very important meaning. With red head-lamps, all traffic signs would be red-and-black at night, great !