Brighter headlights today

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Lot of these lights seem to be set really high or not focused in as well as some. I've got Xenon lights on Das Audi and if you point them at my garage wall the lens on them cuts off in a clean horizontal line on the top. Some of the cars I meet driving seem more like unfocused floodlights.

It's weird driving around at night. Headlights range from dim yellowed out headlights from people with frosted over lamp covers to pickups and mothership SUV's that are so high they burn your retinas.

A lot of the new and more expensive cars use Xenon lights, they give off a blue tint as they are approaching you and are bright as hell. They are great for the driver with improved vision to see deer along the road, but damn near blind the person they are meeting, especially before they kick down to low beam.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Damn kids and their bright headlights and loud music!

 

[nfrine]

Probably just me but it seems some of the lighting schemes used on EV's are like being on the midway at the state fair. More show than real function.

 

[dmclone]

In today's world, maybe lights and brake lights should just be on all the time. I know they suck but isn't this what those weirdos up north do?

 

[ClonerJams]

 

[Frog]

Here is the answer..........

 

[Arkansas Cyclone]

It wasn't uncommon for me (many years ago) when I made a trip back to Iowa to leave at midnight and drive 6 1/2 hours through the night. Now I can hardly drive to the store at night without getting disoriented from bright headlights. No way I would ever attempt a long trip at night. I honestly don't think I could make it. As others have said, I've found myself looking away from bright lights for 3 or 4 seconds which is an accident most likely waiting to happen. I thought it was just me but now I see that it's a problem shared by many.

 

[Nor'easter]

I get flashed all the time when driving like the oncoming driver thinks I have my high beams on. I just flash my high beams back to show that I don't have them on. I have 2 SUVs, the older one is a 2015 and still has the older style headlights but still get people that flash me and my other is a 2023 that has the LEDs and I definitely get flashed more when driving that one. Must be because they are mounted higher I guess, I can tell a big difference between the 2 as the newer one with the LED seems to cast a much further and more crisp swath of light ahead than the older one does.

Same people that are flashing the brights at me are probably the same ones that are driving cars without automatic headlights that don't turn them on when the fog is so thick I can barely see them coming. That's more annoying to me than thinking the headlights are too bright is not having them on during weather conditions that they should be on so people can see where you are on the road.

Yeah I flash cars every so often. Even if their high beams aren't on they should know their headlights are way too bright. Maybe that's unfair but it's insane anymore.
I've been noticing that headlights are getting brighter for years now.

 

[VTXCyRyD]

Amen to this one brother. Also the other but the lower light bar or the bar on the grill should be banned from being used on the roadway. Mounting them and using them on a service vehicle when needed is fine but just on and driving down the road can take a hike.

Most are not legal, and people should be getting tickets from law enforcement if they are using them on the road. There are very few that claim to be DOT certified, but everyone I have ever looked at states it is for offroad use only.

 

[Cy Guy69]

I saw a f250 with the front practically covered in led lights. Not sure what it is, but Fords and Dodges are the worst offenders.

 

[pourcyne]

Not that it helps much with today's super-death-ray headlights, but my good ol' mamma taught me to look down to the right edge of the road when an oncoming vehicle forgot to dim its lights. Nowadays, the deer standing there will let you know if you're getting too close to the ditch.

 

[nfrine]

Not that it helps much with today's super-death-ray headlights, but my good ol' mamma taught me to look down to the right edge of the road when an oncoming vehicle forgot to dim its lights. Nowadays, the deer standing there will let you know if you're getting too close to the ditch.

And the deer are looking at your "deer-in-headlights" look.

 

[pourcyne]

And the deer are looking at your "deer-in-headlights" look.

I used to commute in the dark on these windy, hilly roads down here in the Laplands (where Iowa laps into Missouri). Had TEN deer-related fender benders, smashed mirrors and windshield and two totaled vehicles. My only conclusion was that the DNR had put a hit out on me.

 

[2122]

I find that oncoming LED headlights bother me less if I watch a movie while driving.

 

[AuH2O]

I find that oncoming LED headlights bother me less if I watch a movie while driving.

When I see oncoming bright lights I usually grab my phone and check with CF to see what to do.

 

[Dopey]

More lights!!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/mercedes-adds-new-light-color-blue-for-self-driving/index.html

 

[NWICY]

I used to commute in the dark on these windy, hilly roads down here in the Laplands (where Iowa laps into Missouri). Had TEN deer-related fender benders, smashed mirrors and windshield and two totaled vehicles. My only conclusion was that the DNR had put a hit out on me.

3 in 18 months in NW WI one yr. That was a bad stretch.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

I used to commute in the dark on these windy, hilly roads down here in the Laplands (where Iowa laps into Missouri). Had TEN deer-related fender benders, smashed mirrors and windshield and two totaled vehicles. My only conclusion was that the DNR had put a hit out on me.

Down here driving at night you have to keep your head on a swivel and scanning from ditch to ditch and stay focused on your driving. When the high beams are on its not too bad, but when you meet another vehicle and they dim, when it gets dangerous. I have only hit one deer but slammed on the brakes a million times to avoid hitting them. They are just all over down here, and I wish the hunters would thin them out.

 

[mywayorcyway]

Since nearly all cars come with LED headlights and the technology is there, I don't know why lights don't dim and brighten gradually instead of HIGH or LOW being the only options. This shouldn't be a problem anymore.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

People just need to adjust the angle of their headlights.