What happens when you don't have regulated standards? That. The color of the light is also important. Brightest doesn't mean best.

driving in a car and meeting the foul lifted truck headlights

its so frustrating that now that electric cars are getting really good everything else about cars is getting really bad. i dont want a big suv with bright cold white headlights and built in driver monitoring and screens everywhere. please just sell me a 90s family sedan but electric

also can we PLEASE find a better place for curtain airbags than in the pillars??? i would like to be able to see oncoming traffic when going around curves

People who describe this as a problem with headlight technology are idiots. The problem is over-bright headlights shining in people's eyes, regardless of the technology.

Those are all high beams.

If they are pointed at a person that is against the law & a dick move by a person (regardless if it's a mechanical failure).

Brightness isn't bad, it's a safety feature.
(And countries do have a min/max brightness laws, measured a bit differently tho.)

There is also a failure of the greedy car industry - we have adaptive headlights (where you have your high beans beams dynamically shaded or separated to not shine on other cars specifically) for 30 years now but they remain optional extras (except on Chinese cars). And memes of cars shining in your face exist.
(USA only allowed this a few years back, that's why in the USA movies even cars promoted by that movie always used the base model ugly headlights.)

(This last low beam adaptive bit is from the 70s actually.)

The second failure is also legislative - all the places that don't have legislature setting the max height (positioning from the ground) of headlights have SUVs shining lights in ppls faces even when just using low beams.

As said, ppl are just dicks with high beams, low beams set too high, and using fog lamps all the time bcs it's 'sporty'.

The problem has nothing to do with the light technology. It has to do with the cutoffs and properly aiming the headlights. Also tall vehicles have higher headlights even if aimed properly.

Legislate this crap now

LEDs don't have ro be that bright and can and should have regulated lumen and color temperature outputs. I shouldn't feel like looking at my mirror at night is like looking at the sun

Those are the long lights that you use when no one is driving in front of you. The issue with short lights is that people don't adjust them correctly, no the color or brightness.

Just move the contrast and shadow sliders back down when you approach another car.

Fake. Make the LEDs dimmer AND avoid the regular headlight out issues.

If the obnoxiously bright blazing headlights of an oncoming car cause momentary blindness & disorientation to the point of losing the ability to see then crashing one's car & serious injury or death, how can bright blazing headlights driver be brought to justice? He passed, he's gone, he doesn't know the wreck & death he caused. 🤔

Don't need them to be bright as the damn sun

This is a big issue, I've been thinking about aligning my head lights down so I can use brights. Why? Because they're the old fashioned giant glass bulb ones (old jeep). They're on so I don't get a ticket and don't really do anything. The car behind me lights the way.

I don't get it. Bright headlights bad? I have LED headlights and my car is fairly short, so I have a nice crisp beam of light that doesn't get in people's eyes. My current car has by far the best headlights I've ever had. I think BMW is/was using lasers for a while, I think? They didn't seem that bright. I think there's a pretty good amount of regulation that goes into headlights. Actual bad headlights are the ones on lifted trucks that engulf you in bright ass light through your mirrors.

Fuck caaaaars 🥰

As far as I'm concerned, LEDs should be illegal. Except for specifically in projector housings with projection lenses that have been properly aimed. Those are the lenses and housings that give your light a razor-sharp cutoff point, and when aimed properly, it means that you will not blind people.

I did this for my car. I live very rural. There's no such thing as city light pollution, much less streetlights. So when it's dark, it's dark dark. And there are deer, elk, and all other manner of animal based hazards. I went through the trouble of making sure to aim my lights in such a way that on the standard lights my cutoff is just below the side mirrors and rear window lines of the average family sedan, not an SUV or anything like that.

When I turn on my high beams they are oh hey look it's high noon in front of me for like a mile. But the standard lights were specifically configured to not do that. Unlike all the other people in my area that simply put massively bright LEDs in their completely normal light housings that do not have the ability to make a sharp cut-off so all they do is blind literally everyone like assholes regardless of high beams.

Im pretty sure the factory headlights on my car are LED, and they project a decent pattern. Much better than the time I tried to put LED's in a halogen-headlight motorcycle.

i feel like this could be easily mitigated by including proper use of high beams in driver's ed

Sick LEDs bruh, hold my Maxtoch Xsword L2K.

Dunno why you'd be surprised. Anyone behind the wheel of a personal car or truck has already made the decision that their personal convenience is more important than the safety or even life of anyone else around them. Is it really so.hard to comprehend that anyone narcissistic enough to be driving for personal transportation would be narcissistic about other things too?