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Totally agree with you on mandates. Nobody mandates that we should get a V8 and appreciate the smoothness and inherent balance. Why haven't V12s and inline 6's been mandated by now, they have primary and secondary balance.This is what irritates me the most about all of this EV nonsense. None of it should be mandated. If people want these things, they'll buy them.
If they don't, they shouldn't be forced to by ANY form of government mandate. Or by putting time limits on how long ICE vehicles can be legally produced and sold. Once again we have the government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. All based on that same line of crap..... "For the common good".
If EV's are so fabulous, they should be able to kill off ICE, based on the benefits they provide, by simply being better...... Much like LED bulbs have taken over the market from incandescents. And transistors took over the vacuum tube market.
These things are no "greener" than an asphalt parking lot. Even the government should be smart enough to know that.
The LED headlamps is a real pet peeve of mine. Right now, when one of those cars is on an incline, it's blinding to oncoming traffic.
I decided to look at my own car. It's a 2006 with HID Xenon, adaptive.
The lamps are relatively bright, maybe not as many lumens as a LED. But they don't glare at all. The car has adjusted them. Maybe that is coming. I do see headlamps being moved down, even on the 2025 Tahoe/Suburban. The new trend is where headlights are, are just slivers and DRLs. Headlamps are mid bumper.