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More and more newer cars are coming with LEDs & HIDs standard. They are brighter but I don't have an issue with them. Once and a while, I come across some that look like they weren't aimed correctly from the factory. What chaps my butt are the 10000K ricer blue lights people have in their 20 yr old Civics.
Night vision becomes more sensitive as we age so if the lights in newer cars are bothering you, I suggest paying the eye doctor a visit.
Why? That's violet light output. Quite dark. I laugh at that stuff, because my f150's parking lights alone are brighter than that junk.
I have some very good, polycarbonate, wrap-around safety glasses, with blue-blocker coating, that I wear when riding a bike at night. They take care of this problem nicely and cut down all glare, without diminishing my visual acuity.
Yes, that seems to start at about 45 and gets worse every year. I find that anti glare coating on my glasses helps some. Headlights are brighter, though, which is a good thing for the driver with a larger car or SUV, but bad for people with a small car where it hits them right between the eyes.
It started for me around 30 and I'm only 41 now. Anti-glare coating has helped on my latest glasses, but not a huge difference...and it makes the glasses a pain to clean.
It's definitely worse when there's a height disparity between the vehicles. When I'm driving my Mazda3, it's much worse than in my Mazda CX-9. The Mazda3 sits very low to the ground and truck/SUV lights are always right in my face. My CX-9 is a large crossover/SUV and I don't have nearly as many issues when I'm driving it.
There have been a number of threads on this subject lately, probably would take an act of Congress and a hatfull of new laws to change it (like we need any more new laws picking out itty bitty bits of behavior).
I have driving/fog lights on some vehicles, with lights ready to be installed in the rest...but I know how to aim them properly. CORRECTLY aimed driving/fog lights don't bother other drivers. (They are practically a necessity here, due to weather conditions.)
I have the same problem with those bluish-tinted headlights. They are painful when viewing them in oncoming traffic.
I've been wondering what I'll do when all the headlights are like that.
It's good to know that others are bothered by them too. I thought it was just me.
More and more newer cars are coming with LEDs & HIDs standard. They are brighter but I don't have an issue with them. Once and a while, I come across some that look like they weren't aimed correctly from the factory. What chaps my butt are the 10000K ricer blue lights people have in their 20 yr old Civics.
Night vision becomes more sensitive as we age so if the lights in newer cars are bothering you, I suggest paying the eye doctor a visit.
I'd meet up with the eye doc, but I also went and bought these:
Helps me a lot and I bought 2 pair, but am down to one and will be reordering a another pair as my (don't say anything) older sister has issues also....
People whop are too stupid or lazy or ignorant to aim them properly;
AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!
"People who are..."
It's the keyboard's fault, really, it is...
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Originally Posted by Javacoffee
I have the same problem with those bluish-tinted headlights. They are painful when viewing them in oncoming traffic.
I've been wondering what I'll do when all the headlights are like that.
It's good to know that others are bothered by them too. I thought it was just me.
I have this urge to mount a light bar on the roof, with a half a dozen multi-million candlepower 'Sun' lights on it (facing forward AND rearward)...and then, to heck with all the other pusswads with *their* bright lights...yippy ki-yay mother...
We live "...where the deer and the antelope play..." on the highway. A lot. We drop our speeds after dark from 55 or 65 to about 35 for just this reason.
When one of these knuckleheads comes at us with these bizarre bright white set of headlights, it literally brings us to a stop. We can't see forward and we certainly can't see the next three-point, 150 pound mulie (that's a young male deer) that is going to fold up my hood like an origami exhibit.
It's not that headlights are getting brighter, it's that they've taken on a cooler color temperature that is more susceptible to glare. Get a decent pair of night-driving glasses, they are a very simple yet effective countermeasure.
Along the same line of thought, I have noticed the police lights being much brighter lately as well. They'll be on the side of the road responding to an accident, and possibly contributing to a new accident with their blinding lights.
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