It’s Not Just You: Six of 10 Drivers Say Headlight Glare Is a Problem

https://www.thedrive.com/news/its-not-just-you-six-of-10-drivers-say-headlight-glare-is-a-problem

40 Comments

  1. cursed_franchise on

    I actually thought my vision was starting to go while driving at night so it’s nice to hear this is an actual thing.

  2. The other 4 are in F-350s leaning back in the “Carolina Squat” and can’t see the road ahead of them anyway.

  3. Adept-Pangolin1302 on

    The other 4 are probably the muppets with the headlights that are blinding everyone else.

  4. The remaining 4 are either truck drivers or have never driven past cars with ultra-bright LED lights.

  5. obstreperousRex on

    I almost got into a fight a couple of months ago because the headlights on my wife’s car are too goddamn bright. The guy in front of us thought I was messing with him.

  6. neverfakemaplesyrup on

    My retinas are fugged up. Mostly, I am super, super light-sensitive. And at the same time, my night vision isn’t hot.

    I live in Upstate NY

    life is misery for most of the year

  7. ThrowAbout01 on

    I honestly can’t tell if People (or their cars if automatic) just leave their high beams on or not.

  8. The government of Canada is surveying people for their thoughts on the bad headlight glare.

    Yeah, the glare stinks!! It’s a road hazard!

  9. Headlights? Shoooooot, we have imbecils driving around here with LED light bars on.

  10. trollcat2012 on

    NGL it’s so bad I can’t tell who has high beams on or not.

    Effs up sedan/halogen drivers so bad we almost need to turn our high beams on to see afterwards..

  11. sisyphus_was_lazy_10 on

    Also, love the automatic brights feature on newer cars where they don’t shut off until after they blind people. Until they improve this tech, please disable and operate them manually.

  12. If my current career blows up, I’m becoming a police officer and will exclusively go around ticketing improper headlight alignment

  13. I report yt ads for super bright headlights as a dangerous act. I’m doing my part.

  14. TheRatingsAgency on

    I keep saying it, the issue is color temp of modern lamps. Go back to the more yellow spectrum lights and we don’t have the same issue.

    And you can see it on the road.

  15. Just as a fact, it was the reason France was using yellow headlights back in the day. Study showed illumination was the same but with reduced glare.

  16. Electrical-Rope3959 on

    Especially when those assholes get aftermarket headlights with the power of a thousand suns.

  17. jemappellejimbo on

    Another example of the selfish “fuck you got mine” culture in this country

  18. BarkerBarkhan on

    I remember, back when I learned to drive, that it was appropriate to turn off your high beams when there were oncoming drivers.

    Now? Everything is high beams, it seems, and I have to turn on mine of my 2007 Corolla just so I can see anything after being blinded by everyone else’s lights.

  19. Banana-phone15 on

    Problem is aftermarket headlights and mods people do to their car. But they don’t align the headlight. And then there is drivers, who lift their truck to compensate for their small 🍆 and blind everyone on the road to hide their small 🍆energy

  20. Yeahdudebuildsapc on

    Warm colored lights and a little less bright is what we need. Never going to convince everyone that we will all be safer that route though. 

  21. They don’t make vehicles without these headlights anymore. The government won’t regulate them. The world just sucks more with them.

    It sucks even more walking at night. Vehicles are blindingly bright for pedestrian traffic, motorcycles, and bicycles. However, we are in the era of deregulation though so.

    Idk what to do. 

  22. Kindly-Scar-3224 on

    I notice most of the cars with automatic lights adapting poorly to oncoming traffic. Both using it myself and all I meet driving much and in the dark. Tesla with dirty lights are the worst tbh.

  23. Car manufactures literally cheat the road safety headlight test by making the test sensor zone dimmer than the surrounding area.

  24. If you drive a sedan at night, you’re basically blinded by headlights every second.