Headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being ‘blinded’ at night
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn971jlpvvro
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Headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being ‘blinded’ at night
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn971jlpvvro
Posted by Alert-One-Two
13 Comments
I feel like this got worse with auto adjusters.
They break, and are non essential so either don’t get noticed or just don’t get repaired.
Auto-dim headlights are generally awful, on any sort of bendy road the response time is just too slow. I can see a car coming long before their dips work.
My previous car headlights were shite. Couldn’t see in the dark. It was like using tea lights to illuminate. My current car has led and makes a difference. But if they looking at making drivers have shit lights they need to look at illuminating the roads better, many councils have decided to remove lights from motorways Giving a need for better headlights
For people with astigmatism these lights make driving at night unsafe.
Even with glasses that correct vision in daytime.
Saw a dash cam clip this week of an accident in the USA where a driver makes a turn and is totally blinded by the LED headlights of a stationary vehicle in the other lane at the traffic lights. Two pedestrians crossing drunk on a “do not walk” sign emerge straight out of the lights and are struck. Thankfully not seriously hurt and police totally cleared the driver of wrongdoing because they literally couldn’t see anything but white glare.
Personally I think range rovers are the worst culprits, I actively try to let them overtake at night if they’re behind me
I have literally driven at night with sunglasses on because i keep getting dazzled
I see everyone on Reddit complain about this, and yet I literally can’t remember the last time I was ever “blinded” by dipped beam headlights while driving at night. Wonder if a lot of people here need their eyes tested.
I’ve just started pizza delivering in a rural area as a side gig, while at college. I thought it was just rich country arseholes that were too entitled to dim their lights. It’s probably about 1 in 5 cars that have ridiculously bright lights.
I was coming out of a car park in a country pub late one evening and a large SUV that was entering had stopped at the narrow entrance to let me out.
A kind gesture, but their headlights were aimed so high, and they were so bright, all I could see out of the window was white. It was like they were purposefully shining a floodlight directly into the cabin. I had no idea where the road had gone, where the gravel path was, or where the rocks demarking the entrance were.
I had to get out of the car and walk over to tell the driver to dip their lights or turn them off. They seemed surprised and somewhat annoyed at me, but honest to God I couldn’t see shit. Their response was “they are dipped”. Mate, if they’re your dipped headlights then your full beams must be able to illuminate Wembley arena.
I love it when someone puts their full beams on because they’re mad your lights are too bright. So now we’re both blind. Nice.
Isn’t there a generally accepted fact that there is a myopia epidemic (more and more people becoming shortsighted) – this is probably also affecting road users
Back in the 1970s Tungsten/Halogen lights came out, and were vastly brighter than the existing plain tungsten bulbs, and the government very rapidly brought in legislation to limit halogen bulbs to 65W in comparison to the tungsten bulbs at 100W. Why it is taking so long to do the same for the searchlights that are now being fitted to modern cars I don’t know.