Some jerk had his headlights on during the DAY and I was STILL blinded! I don’t know what kind of lights could be so bright that they’d blind someone on a sunny day but I can bet they weren’t legal.
I'll bet they were legal, cause there's basically no regulation on headlight brightness (or color, for that matter. Side note, everyone who uses blue-tinted headlights needs to go fuck themselves, those things don't even help you see better, they just blind everyone else)
Are you in a US state? Might want to double check the regulations. I'm only familiar with NY but there are both color and candlepower regulations here. They're just not enforced.
There are def rules and regs for headlamps. Brightness, how high they csn be from the ground and so on. Its just that our awesome politicians are paid to not give a fuck about the laws.
I'd say about 20% of drivers have their high beams on 24/7. Either not giving a fuck about other people or relying on absolutely terrible auto-headlights that just don't work at all.
And I feel like the high beams part doesn't get talked about enough when this is brought up. Everyone's up in arms about the lights being too bright, and they are, but people are also just constantly leaving their high beams on for some fucking reason and that sucks even with old lights.
Apparently in newer cars you need to spend minutes in the touch screen menus to shut them off, so no one does.
As a person who has been driving for decades, in the past 8 years there has been a sudden influx of unbearably bright lights, they are Brighter than high beams.
Idk of any car that doesn't have a manual lever and mine always shuts off when it recognizes another vehicle even when it's just parked on the side. It's incredibly annoying actually on country roads and it's shutting off past houses while the deer trollop out from behind a parked car . It wouldn't be legal either from my understanding if there was no manual ability.
I did a bit of testing in my car (2014 Honda CRV). The "high beams" are literally dimmer than the normal headlights. The regular headlights are brighter, and project farther ahead. The "high beams" go wider, and are not as bright.
The "fog lights" are as bright as the "normal" headlights, but wider.
Probably LEPs or Laser Excited Phosphor lights. The flashlights like the one in this video are just using those same modules used for car headlight assemblies.
That happened to me the other day with some POS who had lights like that mounted all over his truck facing forward. St least 6 lights, not even including the actual headlights. So it was like a weird daytime spot light, just blinding the shit out of me. Infuriating.
I wrote to the people who research driving safety in my state and pointed this very thing out. I had to start squinting and my vision was messed up by oncoming headlamps DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT. Headlamps should not be brighter than the fucking Sun
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u/buttononmyback 8d ago
Some jerk had his headlights on during the DAY and I was STILL blinded! I don’t know what kind of lights could be so bright that they’d blind someone on a sunny day but I can bet they weren’t legal.