There is a stretch of the highway from where I live into downtown, where it is impossible to look straight ahead in the morning sun. This also happens to be peak commuting hour. The traffic slows down to a crawl as people inch their way out. It always struck me as odd that the highway was not designed to account for this problem that plagues the community every morning.
The brightness of LED headlights this article talks about is a familiar one too. My adaptation strategies for the sunlight problem has been avoidance - by way of leaving early or taking a detour through the city streets. I am sure others are doing similar things. If the car behind me is blinding me with its headlights, I try to change lanes if I can. I wonder if the impacts of such random behavior can be factored into traffic simulations like this one,
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