Originally Posted by
mechBgon
Here's a frame from video of my bike alongside a car out on the highway. I drew a red circle around the "blast zone" from my ~900 lumens of bike headlights, and around the "blast zone" from the headlights of the car that's alongside me. Both my lights have symmetric beam patterns with no cutoff, and their impact is still far lower than an automobile. We should do something about those darn automobiles
Looks like you're a fair way off to the side there, not in the hotspot of your light... where an oncoming car driver would be.