Is it time to ban LED Headlights

What do you mean Nasher? My car has a screen off stealth mode, everything goes off, no cabin lighting and all the steering wheel controls and cluster go to half brightness.

But you knew that as you have drove everything in your position of government of the Art of Mash? Im mean the use of the word 'apparently' - it was a conscious signal to relate the Saab cars to their aircraft business and give the car a cockpit.

Not sure how all that stops you getting glared by OTHER drivers, if the cabin is even duller it makes you more susceptible to the issue being discussed - #criticalthinking
 
Yeah, I think all those laser, matrix LED and other super powerful headlights should be banned by law and police should get funding to enforce said law. Stop the likes of Tesla and the German car makers from installing them on new cars and stop imports of LED lights from China, that people install on their old cars and vans, designed for far less efficient lights.

One reason is the sensitivity to light - or night vision - differs up to 10x in different people. So even if one person thinks the strength of some headlights is OK, they may completely blind another person.
 
Didn't really appreciate how bad headlights had gotten until starting a new job with a 90 minute round trip about 3 months back. I'm leaving in the dark and returning in the dark and i'm dazzled endlessly. :(
 
SkyTerran said:
Yeah, I think all those laser, matrix LED and other super powerful headlights should be banned by law and police should get funding to enforce said law. Stop the likes of Tesla and the German car makers from installing them on new cars and stop imports of LED lights from China, that people install on their old cars and vans, designed for far less efficient lights.

One reason is the sensitivity to light - or night vision - differs up to 10x in different people. So even if one person thinks the strength of some headlights is OK, they may completely blind another person.
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It's not really a matter for the police. Enforcement against individual drivers for lights their vehicle came fitted with from the factory isn't the solution.
 
SkyTerran said:
Yeah, I think all those laser, matrix LED and other super powerful headlights should be banned by law and police should get funding to enforce said law.
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And how do you suggest they enforce this? Force people to replace the standard-fit matrix LED items with a halogen unit that doesn't exist because they never made one for that particular model?
 
A permanent coating would be the easiest way. Then tested at MOT. After a few years every car would be done
 
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Had to go out last night, they are bloody lethal. Not sure if it's because I've got a low car but getting blinded from the front and in the side mirrors from behind is just not fun, and I actively avoid driving at night as much as possible now. :(
 
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It's far more noticable than before now. There is a mitsubishi SUV close by to me who sometimes follows me in the dark mornings and blinds me. I wait at a junction, can't see a thing when its behind me apart from my own shadow cast on the wall in front of me. I wonder if they just left full beam on all the time or are they that poorly aimed
 
Uther said:
Had to go out last night, they are bloody lethal. Not sure if it's because I've got a low car but getting blinded from the front and in the side mirrors from behind is just not fun, and I actively avoid driving at night as much as possible now. :(
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Night driving glasses help I found. They effectively knock them down to a sensible kelvin so aren't as white. It doesn't ruin your night vision as much, or as headache inducing.

It's quite clear now that the fancy "automatic" headlights don't really work very well though.

We are in an era of things in car design just generally being poorly thought out and built tbh. Maybe it's the people in the industry or regulation, or both. New tech being chucked on cars, without much thought about how it works in the real world.
 
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You realise how truly bright they are on the rare occasion you see an older car with ‘normal’ lights. I’ve come across a fair few who I swear just leave their beams on permanently. At that point I just switch mine on, fine, we can both be blinded.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
You realise how truly bright they are on the rare occasion you see an older car with ‘normal’ lights. I’ve come across a fair few who I swear just leave their beams on permanently. At that point I just switch mine on, fine, we can both be blinded.
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Put some retrofit LED bulbs in the main beams (good for MOT, only dipped will cause issues). Then they'll complain :D
 
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