alt Hacker NewsA big problem is bright screens and displays inside of cars at night. Your night vision never kicks in so you need extra bright lights to see, thus these bright lights that only light up a small section of the road. The more dispersed and even lighting of the old lights is so much better.
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Night visón comment is 100% spot on. Most haven’t even experienced it. Here’s a trick, when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, keep one eye closed the whole time if there are lights. When back in bed open that eye. That’s night vision.
Seriously. First thing I do when driving is turn off the screen
One of the things I loved about my old (like 15 years old at the time) Volvo is that I could black out all the dash backlighting completely. I can nearly do that with my 30-year-old Range Rover but the LCD for the odometer and the heater panel stay dimly lit.
I just want it dark.
It's why I never ever want any sort of screen on my dashboard.
One of my favorite features of my Mazda 3 is that it has a HUD projector in the windshield that gets turn by turn directions via Apple CarPlay so I can turn off the screen and still get navigation.
I don't like my wife's car for several reasons, but one thing it absolutely nails is the dash: all the lights are orange. It's a night-and-day difference (pun intended) to most cars that have blue lights everywhere, plus an LCD screen in newer models.