Chrome bumpers are beautiful until the sun glare hits your eyes at just the right angle. Stop 20 or more feet behind a car or truck with a chrome bumper in front of you at a light.
1(800)WAA-AAAA
Car windows reflect the light even more, and there’s more of ‘em. Oughta be banned?
Bumpers and such are curved surfaces do the reflections from them are thin stripes or bright points. A sphere would reflect the Sun as a brilliant dot, for example.
Windows are nearly or, in some cases, completely flat; the area of reflected light coming off of them is much larger, and every bit as brilliant.
There’s been times walking through a parking lot where I’ve passed behind a pickup with a shell on the bed and the reflection was not only blinding, but throwing serious heat.
CA is just doing a dumb because that’s what governments do when they try to say something about everything.