Stare directly into this bright bike light and you won’t feel like you need to swerve out of the way. BY Adele Peters 3 minute read The Sombra is basically a lampshade for your LED bike light.

Today, we have three types of headlights: tungsten-halogen, Xenon high-intensity discharge (HID) lights and light-emitting diodes (LED). Introduced in the 1980s, halogen are the cheapest.

Of course they are not too bright. Car lights are bright. Car lights are aimed at the ground, not at the on-coming car. Wouldn’t you rather see some hazard on the road (a pothole, wet clump of leaves… ...

That has to do with the colors our eyes are sensitive to and the direction the lights are pointed in. Newer car headlights — LEDs, HIDs and halogens — appear brighter than before.

That has to do with the colors our eyes are sensitive to and the direction the lights are pointed in. Newer car headlights — LEDs, HIDs and halogens — appear brighter than before.

That has to do with the colors our eyes are sensitive to and the direction the lights are pointed in. Newer car headlights — LEDs, HIDs and halogens — appear brighter than before.

That has to do with the colors our eyes are sensitive to and the direction the lights are pointed in. Newer car headlights — LEDs, HIDs and halogens — appear brighter than before.