Some of the big pickup trucks are the worst.
There is a guy that lives near me that has SIX headlights on the front. Plus two on the back at the top of the cab. Most likely for plowing.
I think it is an F250.
Even with low beams it is blinding.
And here I thought it was just part of my eyes’ aging process!
Emergency vehicles are the absolute worst; not the headlights, but the emergency lights. They need a dim setting that allows drivers approaching an emergency scene to see and avoid it.
That is why I drive using sunglasses during dark hours. Polarized lenses do a good job of subduing the blinding bright head lights.
I have replaced every bulb in our house with LEDs, but last time I replaced headlamps in my Corolla I didn’t even consider LEDs.
F regulations. These people cannot think beyond mandates and government … or don’t wish to because they’re happy to see the US crumble under untenable controls.
To avoid this designers and companies could work together on shaping light output so it illuminates the road people want to see and less of the sky and other drivers’ eyeballs.
Personal anecdote: My car has LEDs and although they’re not set high I get flashed by irritated drivers sometimes ‘cause too much light bleeds upward. If I could put a hood on the housing I would.
On a cloudy night and relatively dark road with rain on one’s windshield - ALL one can see are the blinding LED lights coming at you.
It removes from one’s sight the ability to see other shades of grey or color, the ability to notice shadow or movement from other directions, and any other lights or markings near the road one can use for reference
These LED headlights are a menace.
After they solve this problem do something about window tints
I just got yellow lenses, in effect goggles, that fit over my glasses.
I was really unsafe at night, and they helped a lot. If this is a problem for you, check it out.
Like a lot of things that change perception, it’s weird. The glare is still there, but the yellow covers seem to kill the blue-est part of the spectrum and I’m no longer blinded.
Yeah it’s crazy... I used some off road headlights on a Baja bug I built 40 years ago and got ticketed for them being too bright, the modern headlights on factory cars are much brighter than mine were.
I have particularly noticed this when driving through the Lincoln Tunnel in and out of Manhattan. I myself turn the headlights off, leaving the parking lights and tail lights on, when I use the tunnel, but most people don’t. And only in recent years have the headlights of the oncoming cars started to bother me. The affect does not seem too bad to me outside the tunnel, out in the open.
I’ve started wearing the yellow night driving glasses. Those LEDs can be brighter than HIDs, which are prohibited.
False.
As a result of this I can now drive around in my 02 f350 with the brights on and no one flashes their lights at me.
Good luck with that one. A quick check shows that only "14 to 16" states require annual vehicle inspections.
So true!
It is not the brightness, it is the poor placement of the LED in the housing that makes it just shine everywhere.
These are aftermarket LED. Manufacturer LED do just fine, usually.
Supposed to be illegal here in Virginia, but.........
Another problem is the headlight cover cataract problem. After five years they look cloudy opaque.
Not so much brightness as poorly aimed beams.