I know I’m not the only one who feels like I’m getting visually assaulted everytime I drive at night. It was bad 10 years ago but now, it seems like headlight manufacturers have a deal with insurance companies and optometrists to make the lights as bright as possible. Is this ever going to stop or is there some kind of race in the headlight industry to see who can reproduce the power of the sun first?
This probably sounds stupid, but I have a simple solution.
Headlights are aimed straight out in front of the driver-which unfortunately is also the oncoming driver’s line of sight. Why not cross their aim of lights so driver aims towards passenger and vice versa.
This takes the drivers light which is directly blinding and aims away, then the passenger light is also slightly aimed more away. Still illuminates the whole front of the road and car, maybe better peripheral even. The only negative is right as they pass each other, the passenger light his the oncoming car, BUT should be way shorter exposure and more indirect so less blinding…
Idk, just my $.02
AFAIK headlights are supposed to be calibrated and low beams should point downward towards the road.
The problem is people with uncalibrated lights as well as those driving with high beams.
The last thing is that newer cars have sensors. When there are no lights facing you they put high beams automatically and then they lower them when sensing a car ahead. Sometimes the software fucks up and leaves the high beams.
Automated lights last about 2 years before the fucking sensors break and cost thousands to fix. Give me back my stomp switch 😁
Smh, more automated shit to break and be less for people to pay attention to and control…
And your oncoming side is even aimed a few degrees even lower to prevent blinding incoming traffic