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by momania 2141 days ago
Added to this, the additional light, especially so close to the front window, reduces your visibility, certainly on pitch dark roads. You'd be amazed how well you can see on a pitch dark road, if all the interior light is switched off (or dimmed to a minimum), with just the running lights. No need for high beams in most cases. Big interior screens make a huge impact on this too.
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You don't even need them to be big, even a low budget car's infotainment touchscreen is enough. Mine has adaptive brightness, so it means that at night in a dark road it'll be at lowest brightness, with black/gray, which makes it even less visible. It's still enough to screw with my night-vision when compared to old cars I had without interior lighting save for some very dim reds on important buttons.