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Car headlights don't have to be this blinding

• mdp2021 4mo ago
  Same in europe, since a few years. It should be illegal, but there you are. There is the possibility (as said by an apologetic driver) that it sometimes may be a badly functioning automation ("Too high? Oh but it's automatic").
  • jmclnx 4mo ago
    I wish they would go back to the old headlights from the 70s, they and a slight yellow tint to them and all headlights were at the same level. Since the late 90s I think, no matter what setting is used, everyone is blinded when by people in back of you and people coming towards you.
  • torginus 4mo ago
    The US is worse - an F150s headlights are at eye level if you're sitting in a Corolla. Nothing on European roads is quite as bad.
    • mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
      I don't understand why headlight elevation isn't standardized.
      • bradfa 4mo ago
        It was. We had sealed beam headlights for a while till we didn’t. There were common rules for aiming and it worked. The lights weren’t all that bright and the styling was not stellar, however.
        • dylan604 4mo ago
          I remember having to take my car in to adjust the aiming of the headlights after it didn't pass inspection. So we used to take things like this seriously. I just had my car inspected last month, I don't even remember them hitting the horn. I'm guessing they pretty much just shove a sensor up the exhaust pipe and call it a day while accepting your payment.
          • bradfa 4mo ago
            No shoving sensors required, the data is all in the ECU accessible over OBDII interface. The car knows if it’s compliant in real time using the sensors it already has.
            • dylan604 4mo ago
              Wouldn't the VW dieselgate show that we can't trust the manufactures? A third party sensor would be more trustworthy to me.
              • bradfa 4mo ago
                In states in the USA which perform emissions testing, many of them did not mandate it for diesel cars. For example, I owned a VW Jetta TDI and in New York (which has yearly emissions testing where an OBDII computer is mandated to be connected to gasoline powered cars in order to pass the yearly emissions inspection) and I was exempt from the emissions testing entirely. A 3rd party sensor would be incredibly expensive for inspection stations to purchase as it would need to meter the air and fuel which enter the engine (assuming we aren't going to trust the car's computer which already knows these figures) as well as to measure the emissions out of the tail pipe. This is economically unrealistic to implement without a dramatic price increase in the cost of regular emissions testing. Trusting the computer is the economical and realistically widely implementable solution. But yes, it has it's blind spots.
    • retired 4mo ago
      First generation Audi Matrix LED lights would have a word. Those blind oncoming traffic for a full second before dimming. They were banned in the US, ironically.
    • Melatonic 4mo ago
      Theoretically the higher headlights could be angled down more to at least sort of help this ? Unless you were right in front of the vehicle. The worst are the trucks with the insane aftermarket light bars
  • nottorp 4mo ago
    > Same in europe, since a few years. Yeah, since they started to introduce super duper led headlights and 144 Hz animations on turn signals it's been more and more blinding to drive at night even across the ocean.
  • rconti 4mo ago
    Actually, it's worse in the US due to our regs.
    • retired 4mo ago
      Many European active headlights solutions were banned in the US upon release thanks to the NHTSA. Meanwhile us Europeans got blasted by them daily.
      • milch 4mo ago
        Instead NHTSA still allows automatic high beams, which blast you instead in the US... Or just regular old drivers that don't realize/care. Even as a pedestrian, I constantly see people driving through my neighborhood with high beams on... and these are side streets with a 20mph/30kph speed limit. Anecdotally at least people in Europe are a lot better about only turning high beams on outside of city limits
  • retired 4mo ago
    As an EU citizen, I notice that our regulators tend to target industries that operate outside of the EU. There is a massive car lobby in Europe with dozens of big companies and regulation would have a big effect on them. There are headlights that are illegal in the US but legal in Europe. Opposite world of what we normally have.
  • Theodores 4mo ago
    My observations from the UK, formerly almost 'Europe': Boomers need cataract operations! A huge part of the car dependent population are elderly. These folks need ten times the light to see anything when compared to the seventeen year old learner driver (that doesn't go out at night, because their driving instructor clocked off hours ago). My thoughts regarding this are somewhat anecdotal, however, I have heard a mystery boomer rant and rave about the headlights on his 'Italian car' (they make them in Eastern Europe and slap an Italian flag on). My observation from being in the offending car, shouting here because aforementioned elderly person had hearing issues too: I CAN SEE EVERYTHING FOR MILES!!! Next: state of the roads As a pesky cyclist, I used to prefer roads to cycle paths because of the smoother riding experience and improved speed. Not nowadays. In the UK, and dare I say it, the West, we have a problem with potholes. Cars also come with low profile tyres and they weigh 50%+ more than the cars we had before airbags and electronic safety systems came along. This is a combination that results in frequent flat tyres. What was something that rarely happened is now practically inevitable. As a pesky cyclist, I should be the one getting punctures and fixing tyres, not the motorist. To compound the misery, few cars come with a genuine spare wheel, partly because of the weight problem with today's cars. My bicycle with kit and caboodle weighs far less than that spare wheel, so this nobbling of the spare wheel makes sense to me, but still, a normal car is two orders of magnitude heavier than what I roll with. Back to the headlights, the elderly cohort with money for new cars, the boomers, don't live in cities, they have nice places in the countryside that require car dependency. With this, and the usage of B-roads, there is a genuine requirement for super-bright lights. Some brands, such as Audi, sell into the market for those that want innovative lights, where the primary innovation is yet more light. As for built up areas, the lighting situation has also changed. Even as a cyclist, I am running what amounts to 'daytime running lights' because of the light pollution. I put my lights on well before sundown, whereas I never used to. The law is 'after sundown' and I used to be okay with that, but if it is four in the afternoon, mid-summer, I am putting the rear light on, at least. It does not seem that I am alone in this, many cars have full lighting rather than what we used to call 'sidelights' on. It is no longer pitch black inside a car, SAAB style. There is so much lighting going on, with a glowing iPad style screen at the minimum, ambient lighting strips on the deluxe cars. The headlights have to compete with this. So more brightness, please! As I see it, we are caught in a cycle of degrading roads, heavier cars, brighter lights and an elderly cohort that actually needs massive amount of light to see anything. Sure there is clever tech so nobody has to dim their lights, and we have it on posh AUDIs and the like, but this is the spiral we are in, and the good old USA shows where it is going, what the end game looks like. Into the mix we also have cyclists playing the stupid-lights game. Nowadays cycling is conspicuous leisure, not transport, and plenty of the carbon fibre crew spend hundreds on these stupid lights. Obviously I am somewhat 'shadow fleet' so I don't do that, I just have what heavy goods drivers 'want' from the well-behaved cyclist, which is standard issue, basic flashing lights, a complement of reflectors, high viz and manners. I yearn for being able to see the Milky Way and the moon providing variable amounts of light throughout the night, with anything moving at night having modest levels of lighting. The situation as it stands means that, along with pedestrians, pets and other animals, I am as good as invisible at night on my bicycle. Fortunately it looks like we will be losing cheap oil thanks to the tangerine person, unfortunately many millions will starve, but a lot of lights will be getting turned off soonly and the age of car dependency will be over.
• 7e 4mo ago
  Tesla is a big part of this. They ship their headlights misaligned from the factory, so they point right into the drivers eyes. Tesla has no quality culture at all. A bunch of wankers.
  • 404mm 4mo ago
    YES! Tesla account for the majority blinding headlights in my area. The rest is idiot drivers who just drive with their high beams on.
  • clark_dent 4mo ago
    I think the gigantic prevalence of huge or lifted trucks is a bigger influence, especially given the tendency to mod them out (poorly) with aftermarket lights. Truck headlights are already on a level with sedan drivers' eyes. There are far more F-150s on the road than there are Teslas.
  • genter 4mo ago
    I dunno, I think all manufacturers are at fault. Even the ones that are properly aligned are ridiculously bright, but aimed down. Which is fine if two vehicles approach each other on flat ground. But if two vehicles approach the crest of a hill, then the headlight that was aimed down is now aimed straight at the other driver. And don't get me started on jackasses that put LED bulbs in old halogen housings.
  • jollyllama 4mo ago
    While all automakers are incentivized to make driving in the competition's vehicles as hellish as possible, Tesla is doubly so. The worse it gets to drive, the more likely people are to want self-driving.
  • the_sleaze_ 4mo ago
    No they don't.
  • glitchc 4mo ago
    I'm sure they don't. The law requires a 10 degree downward angle for directed headlights out of the factory. It would never pass NHTSA testing without it. High beams are a different matter: They are designed to scatter in a wide arc, but people shouldn't be using them when there's opposing traffic.
• eigenhombre 4mo ago
  This is a pet peeve of mine, so when a headlight went out a few weeks ago I asked my mechanic about bulb options. He said he had no other choices for me, so now I am part of the problem too. Seems like a classic Tragedy of the Commons situation / use case for regulation....
  • Zak 4mo ago
    There are already regulations forbidding the use of unapproved LED retrofits in housings designed for incandescent bulbs in most countries. The fact that your mechanic gets away with installing them, and you get away with driving your now-illegal car shows how well they are enforced. Unless your car's design is particularly evil (a real possibility), changing a headlight bulb is usually easy to do yourself, and approved, incandescent headlight bulbs are easy to source most places.
    • operatingthetan 4mo ago
      There are LED replacement bulbs that mimic the light emitting pattern of halogen and also are not massively bright. Those are fine and cops are not going after people with that kind of thing.
  • Melatonic 4mo ago
    There are a lot of options if you search online
• ptaffs 4mo ago
  https://archive.is/20260610124844/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/car-headlights-too-bright-adaptive-beams/687488/ https://archive.is/20260610124844/https://www.theatlantic.co...
• 0x59 4mo ago
  Blindzone Glare Elimination Method can help address some of this https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/blindzoneglaremirrormethod.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/blindzoneglaremi... It doesn't help at all with head on traffic, but glare via my side mirrors has been reduced greatly since I implemented this.
  • yabones 4mo ago
    I do this on long drives, but always have to put it back to normal when it's time to park. It would be neat if cars would implement some sort of automatic switch between this configuration and the straight-back mode when reversing.
    • yostrovs 4mo ago
      Many cars do this. Typically they point the mirrors in and down when the car is set into reverse, so you can see the curb.
      • everfrustrated 4mo ago
        Teslas allow setting separate mirror position configurations for forward and reverse direction. Very handy.
      • 0x59 4mo ago
        Lol, I forgot most ppl have electronic, motorized, smart mirrors. Here I am bringing my manual mirror bias to the table thinking that ppl set their mirrors by hand.
    • Melatonic 4mo ago
      Why do you need to see the sides of your own vehicle to park ?
      • bluGill 4mo ago
        I don't, but I need to see things an inch away. I need to see the lines which are often close to my car as well. Meanwhile when parking I don't need to see things more than a couple feet from my car.
• ptaffs 4mo ago
  Was discussing at home (USA) this same idea that vehicle lights are brighter and drivers are less inclined to be bothered to dip. I rented a car in the UK several years ago which auto-dimmed the beam and was fascinated by the technology which would allow it to differentiate light sources and identify oncoming vehicles.
  • zerobees 4mo ago
    This has been available in the US for a long time. I had it on the car I bought in 2016, and on another I bought in 2023. It's just not mandatory, so it usually comes as a part of some safety / driver assistance package. And even if you have it, you need to enable it.
    • schmookeeg 4mo ago
      A looooooong time! :) https://www.underhoodservice.com/gms-autronic-eye-1952/ https://www.underhoodservice.com/gms-autronic-eye-1952/
  • silisili 4mo ago
    I think most if not all US cars do this now. My current one doesn't even have a way to keep the brights on permanently. Now to wait 8 or so years for all the old ones to cycle out :(.
    • Schiendelman 4mo ago
      Double that. I think the average lifespan of a car in the US is ~16 years.
      • bluGill 4mo ago
        The average car in the US is 12 years old, so the average lifespan is obviously longer. Though average includes some collectors car that nobody drives daily.
  • arjie 4mo ago
• tyjen 4mo ago
  The worst offenders are people buying aftermarket extra bright headlights, then incorrectly installing them at an angle that blinds oncoming traffic.
  • operatingthetan 4mo ago
    For a long time it was aftermarket HID kits. Installing those was a bit of a pain because of the separate ballasts and associated wiring. They were blinding because the projectors required a cut off and most were installed in halogen housings. Now most people are installing aftermarket LED kits. For the most part those are less blinding. I upgraded our old Impreza with some but chose the lowest lumen numbers I could find and they are also engineered to emit light in the same locations and angles that the halogen ones did. I did some tests with the garage door and standing in front of it where a car would be and it's non-blinding for oncoming traffic.
    • Melatonic 4mo ago
      Not sure at all. Most LED retrofit kits have bulbs that create light in a totally different pattern than the original and don't correctly use the cutoff of the headlight
  • randusername 4mo ago
    There are even worse offenders. Some super cheap aftermarket kits seem to have the same horrific flashing as minimum viable Christmas lights. Barely perceptible flashing yet somehow gratingly and distractingly so.
• mylittlebrain 4mo ago
  And to make it worse, there are so many large vans and pickup trucks (empty too) speeding, that also have very bright and eye level cornea melting LED lights.
• calmbonsai 4mo ago
  This is largely poor regulation. The assumption that "more bright = more safe" and the lack of enough real-world testing. The only other product analogy that comes to mind is "thicker = better" for hiking socks. When they got too thick, they applied too much pressure to the heal and also provided additional moment distance making it far easier to roll an ankle.
  • epistasis 4mo ago
    Yes, and this poor attitude of "safety" meaning "safe for the driver" extends to all sorts of terrible safety regulations. 41% of vehicle deaths are people not even in a car[1]. Yet car safety regulation is heavily focused on the 59% that are, nothing to regulate the ridiculous gender-affirming hood heights or aftermarket lifts that turn a survivable collision into a deadly collision. [1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813730 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... Table 1, paragraph above
    • jader201 4mo ago
      > Yet all car safety regulation on the 59% that are I don’t think you meant literally “all”, but one that comes to mind that definitely is intended for pedestrian safety is around requiring that EVs make audible noises when they’re moving at slow speeds (the fake humming as they move forward, and the beeping as they reverse).
      • realo 4mo ago
        Forget about EVs. Most regular SUVs should be taken off the road. Look at this example: a dozen kids aligned in a neat row in front of the SUV and the soccer mom drivers can see none of them! https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/driveway-danger-kids-being-injured-and-killed-in-frontover-suv-blind-zone-incidents/3119237/?os=vbkn42tqho5h1radvp&ref=app https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/driveway-danger...
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• oregano 4mo ago
  I also complain about this but it’s obviously not ever going to change. I always have blue blockers (yellow and also dark orange lenses) in my car and wearing them totally prevents pain and fatigue for my eyes.
• borski 4mo ago
  https://archive.is/I4K0L https://archive.is/I4K0L
• teeray 4mo ago
  EU folks: are ADBs the panacea that all these articles always make them out to be? I’ve seen mixed reports.
  • entuno 4mo ago
    They can be pretty shitty if you're a pedestrian or cyclist, because quite a lot of them don't "see" you, so you just get blinded by the full beams.
  • Y-bar 4mo ago
    They work okay on straight roads with no median. But often fail in these cases: - cresting a hill. Normal people can see the cone of light from the approaching car and often turn classic high beams down before it blinds fellow drivers. These do it only when it detects the actual light source, giving a 0.2-0.5 (about) flash of bright light. - Wet and snowy ground. Even when they re-align themselves somewhat properly they can be blinding due to reflections which are not part of the angle-calculation algorithm. - Failure to detect pedestrians and cyclists. Self-evident, but when I am not in a car I am impressed by how blinding it is. Personally I consider them to decrease safety for everyone except the car with those headlights. I also feel like it is yet another badly designed automation which adds to the ability to slightly doze off and pay a little less attention to traffic.
    • lifestyleguru 4mo ago
      The fucking strobing light when the eyes are working in the scotopic vision.
• synergy7 4mo ago
  If you think this is bad, try walking alongside a small road after dark. Some of the oncoming lights are blinding even from a few blocks away.
  • creaturemachine 4mo ago
    That was me, sorry. My car has automatic high-beams that only turn down for other vehicles.
    • lifestyleguru 4mo ago
      I'm ecstatic every time I'm blinded by laser strong strobing light from the approaching vehicle, especially in the pitch dark country side. Thank you.
      • SkyPuncher 4mo ago
        As someone who often drives pitch dark country sides, you'd be surprised how hard it is to see people on the side of the road at night. Those blinding lights make a huge difference between you blending into the dark background and seeing you early enough to react (if needed).
        • creaturemachine 4mo ago
          True, but once you can see the whites in their eyes it would be nice if the beams lowered.
• tristor 4mo ago
  I like having bright LED headlights, however I also made sure my headlights are correctly aimed and that my auto-leveling is working correctly. My car also auto-dims high beams and has ADB/turning lights. So, in short, I understand why people like bright lights and I'm also conscientious so my vehicle is not the problem. I drive a normal height hatchback. I live in Texas. The /vast/ majority of vehicles on the road are trucks and SUVs, and many of them have aftermarket lift kits which further exacerbates the problem. The main problem is vehicle height and improperly aimed headlights. There's no real enforcement or regulation for headlight aiming, and worse we have no effective vehicle height restrictions. Not only do these insecure little men blind you at night, their cattle guard/reinforced bumper mounted to the frame will decapitate you if they hit you because of the bumper height difference from the 6+ inch Chinese lift kit they added to their truck to stroke their ego and allow them to "bully" drivers on the road by intentionally tailgating and driving aggressively in their oversized vehicle. The problem is epidemic in America, and it's a problem of both regulation and culture. As long as the typical American driver is somebody who enters the road ignorant of basic driving dynamics, with a selfish attitude, inattentively barreling down the road in their massive fuck-off symbol of insecurity, we are not going to fix this.
• post_break 4mo ago
  As someone who has retrofitted headlights with proper HID projectors, deal with RHD to LHD conversions, on some vehicles you can make your headlights look absolutely amazing, with no glare or harm to oncoming traffic. Some of these OEM headlight designs are atrocious. 2015ish F250's are some of the worst headlights when it comes to this. What really pisses me off? LED bulbs only available in 6000k or higher. I had to import some Osram H4 bulbs from the netherlands because they are a warmer factory 3000K temperature. We really need regulation on glare, because right now it's the wild west.
  • observationist 4mo ago
    I've heard of people around my parts sneaking around at night with black masks, taking baseball bats to specific headlights on trucks late at night. Apocryphal or no, stories like that are being cheered by regular people. The federal government took upon itself responsibility for things like this, because it's impractical at best for cities or states to regulate these. It's too bad that politics and bloat has made governance of this particular issue more or less impossible. Self regulation is obviously a joke, the standard suite of choices mean the default options for consumers are obnoxious as hell. It'll have to become a big enough issue to warrant attention and action by the President, either this one or whoever comes next, or nothing will ever be done. Maybe a convention of states that runs all current politicians, judges, and bureaucrats out of their jobs (in a sane, phased way) and establishes term limits and bans on careerism and bloat. Citizens can bypass the feds and kick their asses to the curb - imagine a total reset, in which we put forth competent, responsible people. This problem will never be fixed. Gonna have to wear adaptive sunglasses at night for driving.
• yboris 4mo ago
  I heard in Germany when a vehicle is being inspected (yearly?) the headlights' angles are checked to not be beaming into oncoming traffic. Feels like useful regulation to include in every country. I have blue eyes, it hurts to drive at night.
  • sheepscreek 4mo ago
    I have brown eyes, still hurts to drive at night. Canadian situation is just as bad as our neighbours down south. Now I long for the days of being blinded by yellow headlamps again.
  • retired 4mo ago
    Unfortunately the first TUV inspection is three years after initial registration. In Spain it’s four years. Plenty of time to blind people.
    • alberto-m 4mo ago
      I very much hope newly-produced cars in Germany must obey the TÜV regulations from the start. Imported cars also must immediately undergo certification. Fun fact: some Italian cars have the left light pointing somewhat lower to avoid blinding incoming drivers, and the right one higher to see further along the road margin. The TÜV did not like this, so I had to adjust my lights to be symmetrical when I moved to Germany.
      • shmeeed 4mo ago
        They are not symmetrical, the joint light field is rising towards the right for exactly this reason. However, this is always accounted for in the headlights themselves. There's no need to "misalign" them manually. ;)
• remyp 4mo ago
  This is so much worse now that crossovers are the default car in the US. I seem to be the last person in America driving a car that isn't a tank and have never understood why everyone loves those massive machines so much.
  • floren 4mo ago
    Everyone I've ever asked indicated it's because being higher up feels "safer".
• supertroop 4mo ago
  Straight pipes on Harleys are illegal. But when cops are the ones driving the Harleys who is going to enforce it? This is the problem with certain types of regulations. Like sheriffs who ignore gun regulation in their county.
• njarboe 4mo ago
  A big problem is bright screens and displays inside of cars at night. Your night vision never kicks in so you need extra bright lights to see, thus these bright lights that only light up a small section of the road. The more dispersed and even lighting of the old lights is so much better.
  • nogbit 4mo ago
    Night visón comment is 100% spot on. Most haven’t even experienced it. Here’s a trick, when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, keep one eye closed the whole time if there are lights. When back in bed open that eye. That’s night vision.
  • Melatonic 4mo ago
    Seriously. First thing I do when driving is turn off the screen
  • thedanbob 4mo ago
    I don't like my wife's car for several reasons, but one thing it absolutely nails is the dash: all the lights are orange. It's a night-and-day difference (pun intended) to most cars that have blue lights everywhere, plus an LCD screen in newer models.
    • morkalork 4mo ago
      I've got a Subaru where all the dash instrument lights are in red and it is _amazing_. Still had to turn the infotainment screen brightness to minimum to enjoy it though.
  • tristor 4mo ago
    One of my favorite features of my Mazda 3 is that it has a HUD projector in the windshield that gets turn by turn directions via Apple CarPlay so I can turn off the screen and still get navigation.
  • ErroneousBosh 4mo ago
    One of the things I loved about my old (like 15 years old at the time) Volvo is that I could black out all the dash backlighting completely. I can nearly do that with my 30-year-old Range Rover but the LCD for the odometer and the heater panel stay dimly lit. I just want it dark. It's why I never ever want any sort of screen on my dashboard.
• Melatonic 4mo ago
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• incanus77 4mo ago
  This scourge is so bad. I drive a 40 year old vehicle and a friend created an aftermarket adjustable headlight frame allowing it to move from all-in-one rectangular headlight/high beam sealed units to modern LED bulbs and then an accessory of choice on the inner spaces left over. I chose a classic-looking LED that does regular, high beam, DRL, and amber turn signal all in one and then put off-road fog lights on the inner spaces. But I would not leave the house after night with the vehicle until I adjusted them to DOT spec. Because they are so much brighter and sharped-edged than factory, I can see that they don’t go above oncoming windshields and are aligned properly horizontally. The excellent guide that I used to align my lights: https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html
• jerlam 4mo ago
  There's an interesting trend of some cars having their daytime running lights and their low beams in completely separate positions, with the car design only emphasizing the former. This effectively reduces the height of the headlight even if the car is taller. Here's an example: https://youtu.be/KGhycuensJw?si=ZCycH7l5hQDktqqK&t=54 https://youtu.be/KGhycuensJw?si=ZCycH7l5hQDktqqK&t=54 Surprisingly the Cybertruck also has this layout.
• keane 4mo ago
  Key posts from the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/wiki/index/misinfo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/wiki/index/misin... https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/18lrf3d/a_summary_of_activist_research_this_is_where_were/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/18lrf3d... https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/1akn0ku/why_you_are_being_blinded_at_night_and_how_it_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/1akn0ku...
• dude187 4mo ago
  Outside of the decades long trend of overly bright headlights, I've noticed a more recent uptick of drivers seemingly deliberately leaving their high beams on full time. Not sure if it's "keeping up with the Joneses" or just people with older headlights that can't see them over the bright ones, but I'm blinded by at least one car with clear brights on every night drive recently I will say, while there's now more overly bright headlights of varying degrees of blinding, it's better then when every truck started buying HID headlights and putting them in normal headlight housings. Felt like there was a period of time where headlights were either the normal tone, or a super bright light hitting you from all directions
• m463 4mo ago
  a few things - glare for older people might be due to deposits in their lens, which can be corrected by cataract surgery. The deposits make oncoming headlights like a dirty windshield at sunset. (disability glare) - glare for people with good vision is all the light focused at the same point on your retina and is sort of painful. (discomfort glare) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glare_(vision) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glare_(vision) some cars have matrix/adaptive headlights now: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2059/tesla-matrix-headlights-features-how-to-spot-them-and-retrofits https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2059/tesla-matrix-headligh...