I drive quite a bit, and my car sits at about an average height from the ground. What this means is that lifted pickup trucks and larger SUVs will have their headlight directly facing my rearview mirror, and the number of times I have almost gotten into an accident because of RESIDUAL blindness due to the incredibly bright headlights is not something I am happy about.
This is easy to regulate, just have some reasonable lumen threshold for the manufacturers to abide by, and put some crazy penalty on those who choose to break that law. Like 25k$ for each infraction. Watch how many lives you save.
Europe: "manufacturers submit examples to authorities for testing to ensure they conform to the rules, and then the authorities approve the car for sale".
US: "harmonizing US standards with their global counterparts, updating the rules for technologies like LEDs, ambient light sensors, automatic high beams, and replaceable light sources, improving test procedures for lenses and optics, understanding how to better aim headlights, and making sure that none of this blinds anyone else on the road with glare".
The weird thing is that the latter is usually Europe's way of doing things.
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[ 0.30 ms ] story [ 9.5 ms ] threadI drive quite a bit, and my car sits at about an average height from the ground. What this means is that lifted pickup trucks and larger SUVs will have their headlight directly facing my rearview mirror, and the number of times I have almost gotten into an accident because of RESIDUAL blindness due to the incredibly bright headlights is not something I am happy about.
This is easy to regulate, just have some reasonable lumen threshold for the manufacturers to abide by, and put some crazy penalty on those who choose to break that law. Like 25k$ for each infraction. Watch how many lives you save.
You don't think it'll self-correct after a few months?
Are you saying there is deliberately no enforcement?
US: "harmonizing US standards with their global counterparts, updating the rules for technologies like LEDs, ambient light sensors, automatic high beams, and replaceable light sources, improving test procedures for lenses and optics, understanding how to better aim headlights, and making sure that none of this blinds anyone else on the road with glare".
The weird thing is that the latter is usually Europe's way of doing things.