Bright Lights, Big city, BIG PROBLEMS.

[fullmetaljacket]

Is it me or am I in concert with most of y'all here in that the current crop of LED headlights in new cars are most definitely really dangerous. I mean, I am constantly blinded by the ultra Yankee Stadium lumens on these new cars enough that I can not see a thing in front or to the side of me.
Old school lights worked perfectly all these years, why this?.
Why haven't the Highway and safety commissions addressed this? Why haven't the insurance companies addressed this? Why are the factories getting away with this? What gives?

 

[Runcharger]

Best one is those Ferd pickups with like 6 headlights on low beam. being a Ferd I guess the engineers are worried that 5 of the lights might burn out?

 

[YY1]

I agree.

All of the "benefit" and concern seems to be for the driver and for seeing farther.

No concern at all seems to be for drivers of oncoming vehicles.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

I agree.

All of the "benefit" and concern seems to be for the driver and for seeing farther.

No concern at all seems to be for drivers of oncoming vehicles.

Correct. Which endangers both driving parties.

 

[Sam69sat]

The large suvs and big pickups are the worst where i live. I try not to drive at night because there are lots of deer and you can't see **** for a few seconds when one of these vehicles is coming. I'm really tempted to get a million candle power spotlight and let them have it. See how they like it.

Also think there are A-holes around that just drive with their high beams on and don't care.

 

[Photon440]

The large suvs and big pickups are the worst where i live. I try not to drive at night because there are lots of deer and you can't see **** for a few seconds when one of these vehicles is coming. I'm really tempted to get a million candle power spotlight and let them have it. See how they like it.

Also think there are A-holes around that just drive with their high beams on and don't care.

Here ya go, some of these aircraft landing lights will get close to 2 million candle power at 100 feet.
Landing Lights | Aircraft Spruce Canada

 

[#41]

As annoying as it is in the City, light from street lights, parking lots, homes, and other cars allows you to somewhat see past it. Where I'm at, it's forested unlit county roads and when these things are coming at you its impossible to see anything past them. You just focus on the fog line to the right and drive into the void with your fingers crossed.

We have the technology for vehicles to automatically adjust light projection based on conditions. They are already doing it with auto hi/lo beams on upscale cars. It's probably just a matter of time before some lawsuit mandates it and car prices go up another 5% to cover it.

 

[cr8crshr]

I can not add a comment to this as I no longer drive at night these days. I do agree that the blinding brightness is really bad and a nuisance. I am wondering if this happens because the lights are no longer adjusted like the older ones were. The trick I learned when I had to drive at night was to look away to my right so as not to get hammered directly with the new LED ones. It helps somewhat with the temporary blindness but still, it should not have to be that way for those of you who drive at night...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[DeltaV]

The Bubbas around here were getting out of control with adding/having/using illegal lighting on their pickup trucks.

The Sheriff's department took care of those infractions.

 

[torredcuda]

I remember getting pulled over and warned by cops if I just had one sealed beam headlight adjusted a bit high, now it is perfectly OK to totally blind oncoming drivers with incredibly bright LEDs - WTF!

 

[David Womby]

Yep, it's quite scary and mega-sized SUVs and pickups are the worst.

David

 

[fullmetaljacket]

It should be outlawed. Watch, read and remember my words. Lawsuits coming down the road and I bet, the manufacturers and factories won't see that coming.

 

[3sloppydogs]

I don't mind being behind them on our roads but they sure do blind me when they are coming at me.

 

[72redbird]

The Ford 3/4 and 1 tons seem to be the worst, they are bad!

 

[fullmetaljacket]

The Ford 3/4 and 1 tons seem to be the worst, they are bad!

Cars and smaller SUV's are just as bad. I'm confused as to the high beams being on or they're just that kind of candle power. The old bulbs worked just fine. When the plastic lenses came into the picture, those faded after just over a year creating another crisis where the candle power was low in projection. I don't know why knuckleheads are designing stuff without real world testing and evaluations. It's dangerous. I smell a class action lawsuit down the road.

 

[funknut]

Another thing that gets me is the ULTRA bright emergency lights on cop cars, ambulances, etc. The flashing just makes it 100x worse. Driving past one of them is like staring at a strobe light.

I'm all for safety, but when I'm blinded to anything else besides your emergency lights, it ain't exactly safe.

 

[YY1]

There has been a trend (at least in FL) for LEO vehicles to have ultra bright strobe lights flashing at different intervals nearly everywhere they can possibly be mounted. I'm talking about running boards, B pillars, C pillars, behind the rear windows (inside the vehicle)...literally everywhere one can be mounted.

EXTREMELY distracting.

I'm all for calling attention to the vehicles, so folks can get out of the way, but this is either A- such a spectacle that folks can't look away and become fixated, and/or B- so bright and mentally confusing that you can't look at all and either look as far away as possible, or actually close your eyes.

Neither is good for paying attention to your immediate surroundings while also evaluating how best to allow the LEO to do their job.

 

[Southbranch]

Let's add in the nights with rain and HID lights, the glare is blinding. And I agree about the emergency vehicle with to many lights it makes it unsafe going past them.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Emergency vehicles are the worst!

 

[Hey-O]

We live in a new world, where bigger isn't necessarily better. We spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel.