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you're close. the searing effect is inherent to LEDs regardless of running lights, low beams, or high beams. it's the natural result of a very small, very very bright light source- or several of them- shining in your direction (not even necessarily AT you) and then refracting through the air/the glass/your eyes/rain/et cetera. it's usually referred to as a 'dazzle' effect and they know goddamn well it hurts your eyes which is why so many tacticool flashlights have beams and settings specifically to dazzle and confuse. previous headlight types didn't have this problem- halogen bulbs reflect the output light forward but not the shape of the bulb itself (think about how an older car's headlights look like they're glowing when viewed from even a slight off-angle, but aren't actually shining right into your eyes even in the beam itself), xenons were cool but expensive, HID lights have a signature sort of 'glowing orb' (not the same as angel eyes), but LEDs are both cheaper to produce en masse and yet monstrously expensive to replace because fuck you, they set the prices.
>the mindless goycattle consumer thinks the lights aren't on because the normal headlights only turn on a small LED strip and the retarded normies think that isn't enough. So they turn their brights on
this is actually backwards, you have a lot more people driving WITHOUT headlights these days because they assume all cars have automatic headlights (they don't) and even if they do they're often set wrong, so they think their daytime running lights are actual headlights. in the past you could tell by whether your gauge cluster was lit up or not even in the absence of a headlight indicator light, but ALL cars have giant digital clusters that are permanently illuminated and digital screens these days so that doesn't work anymore
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