"Anybody else been the victim of those extra bright bloody headlamps , coming at you that blind you ,they need banning."
Many new cars have super bright LED headlights, this will be very difficult to do anything about. |
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I have a new seat and the headlights are stupidly bright, not just bright the light was so white, and when I put the full beams on I was amazed. I didn't get anyone flashing me but they were incredibly bright |
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"Anybody else been the victim of those extra bright bloody headlamps , coming at you that blind you ,they need banning.
Many new cars have super bright LED headlights, this will be very difficult to do anything about. "
I was once told that headlights are limited by wattage rather than brightness - because LEDs are so low power they are much brighter for the equivalent power output. If that is the case then the law needs changing because it is using the wrong metric and modern lights are often too bright. |
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Would love to know what happened to the department at the Ministry of Transport which used to be responsible for 'Construction and Use' regulations.
The 'powers that be' have gone wildly wrong over lighting on vehicles.
Not only do they not understand the need for the erstwhile 'Dim dip' headlights which made town driving comfortable but they have also allowed crazy fashion led ideas such as overwhelming the output of a puny orange indicator bulb by placing it either within the headlight area or far too nearby. Result, you cant see it winking most of the time because of the adjacent Ruhr defending searchlights.
What happened to the eminently superior concept of suitably powerful white lamps in an orange coloured enclosure well away from other light sources? One used to be able to know in advance where to look for the presence of indicators, whether or not the oncoming driver might be bothered to use them.
Another stupidity is having only front daylight running lights and none of any sort showing to the rear. One can be on a gloomy road and find a black or dark grey car in front without any rearward illumination. If you are lucky they might have some chrome type plastic trim which reflects your lights.
Parked cars don't seem to have decent reflectors any more and that's assuming that many are even parked the legal way round at night anyway. Nobody seems to be conversant with that convention any more. I've been to some more civilised countries where you don't park facing the wrong way even in daylight.
Far more attention is given to aggressive styling than to practicality these days. None of this has been helped by any remaining pro consumer media having been taken over by Clarksonesque industry led circus acts. Even serious motoring magazines are in thrall to the manufacturing lobby.
I despaired long ago of the way cars are evolving and am still lucky enough to be driving two sensible, practical, and useful vehicles. There is nothing on the market now to appeal to me even if had all the money in Japan. Certainly, sod anything European, bodged from left hand drive for Britain.
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Yes there's a big thing in the news about the amount of accidents caused by them and insurance companies trying to get them changed.
I think it's down to most of them are on SUVs and the headlights are in a higher position and people don't adjust them to dipped plus the assholes who think it's clever to drive with fog lights on all the bloody time.
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"I read a couple of weeks ago that the government department that deals with it is having a look to see what can be done. 6years later they my decide no it's alright forget about it."
Good to know there still is a government department which deals with this.
Where have they been all these years?
Perhaps it has been the wrong department dealing with this while these developments have taken place? |
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By *usurrusCouple 45 weeks ago
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So, the dull bit..... Construction and use regulations do not supply to car lights. We have the lighting regulations for that. In which a light is defined as having a filament which is not allowed to be over a certain brightness. LED lights do not use a filament, ergo are not covered by the regulations at all.
It's a case of tech outpacing the law. Happening with everything I'm afraid.
See, I promised it would be dull. |
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"So, the dull bit..... Construction and use regulations do not supply to car lights. We have the lighting regulations for that. In which a light is defined as having a filament which is not allowed to be over a certain brightness. LED lights do not use a filament, ergo are not covered by the regulations at all.
It's a case of tech outpacing the law. Happening with everything I'm afraid.
See, I promised it would be dull. "
It would, nevertheless, be good if 'Construction and Use' dealt with the placement and deployment of the luminaires and with how they are incorporated into the overall design of a vehicle. |
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