First, there is the problem of brightness; As mentioned earlier, it`s entirely possible – and not uncommon – that car headlights are actually too bright and therefore illegal. You know what it`s like to compete head-on with a car with high beams. Poorly installed or too bright LED lights can have the same effect and temporarily dazzle other drivers directly on or through their mirrors, which can be very dangerous. If you are planning to install the brightest LED headlights on the market, it is worth checking the laws of your state. Most people will confuse this with ill-fitting headlights, but the truth is that they make them so bright now. GM has just recalled millions of vehicles to drop a diffusion sticker from the outside of the headlight body because of all the accidents they cause. The sad thing is that most people won`t take their car with them for this kind of recall, and other manufacturers will continue to produce crappy miniature LED suns. I live in an area where the grey-haired population is very grey, where modified cars, even though they are as small as headlight replacements, are very rare. It`s the new cars that dazzle me where I am. 3) Older people are more bothered by the bluer lights of today`s “cool” cars. There`s a reason I had quite a discussion about “brightness.” For the elderly, the HIDs and ultra-blue LEDs in today`s “cool” cars pose a major glare risk. For a young person, HID and LED headlights are nothing or perhaps a slight nuisance.
For older drivers, the extra blue light is very unpleasant. The “brightness” of a Corolla LED headlight may seem to differ between younger and older drivers, but the light intensity is the same. As you get older, you`ll start hating blue more and more. Supposedly, no modern car dazzles if its lights are properly aligned, so I suspect dealers of the above brands simply refuse to aim at the headlights. It`s the OEM headlights that are too bright in the first place. In addition, many pickup trucks used to transport heavy objects for work have rear springs that are pulled in such a way that the rear end of the vehicle sags, which not only directs the headlights into the eyes of oncoming drivers, but also spoils steering and braking. I bought a few sets of projectors from Amazon, they came from local utility stores, the last set was made by Sylvania. Do you say Amazon because you have an ox with them, or do you group them all together? Anyway, I think you`re wrong – not about cheap lights, but about the Amazon supplier The question is not “How are they legal?” but “Why do so many people get away with illegal devices?” I agree with you, LED headlights are a fucking nightmare, of course they have to be legal, but at least make the light yellowish so it`s not so hard on your eyes. What is legal for manufacturers to install in the factory and sell at the dealership? First, they`re bright as hell, forcing automakers to add blockers on top of headlights that give the driver less light, second, the 33.3% (or sometimes more) blue that comes out of those lights are terrible to your eyes and annoying to other drivers, especially at night. Third, every car that comes from the crowd comes with LEDs built into the headlight, so if it runs out, you`ll need to replace the entire headlight, not just the bulb.
We saw this change from the third brake light about 10 years ago. Automakers claim that these third brake lights and LED headlights will last 20 years, but they often fail before the consumer spends much more money than a $3 bulb or a $10 halogen bulb. I know electric cars need LED bulbs because they need to save electricity, but for the internal combustion engine, the halogen lamp is fine and has been since the 70s. Electric cars have much worse problems than LED lights 5-10 years later anyway. ledlightguides.com/are-led-headlights-legal/ Meanwhile, my local news has pushed a study that says these headlights are the safest things ever and have increased safety for the driver repeatedly and that everyone should have them to protect themselves. So, am I wanted because I have LED headlights and taillights on my car? In fact; the problem, as I understand it, is the objective, particularly the obvious fact that no dealer in the United States can be obliged to properly align their headlights; literally every 2016+ Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, Acura and Lexus I see on the roads physically hurts my eyes and forces me to look to the far right of the road. I don`t have this problem with older car headlights. Why was it standardized and allowed after so many years to be essentially an item for which you would get a ticket? I have a car with stupidly bright headlights and it actually has no control over altitude, so I have no choice but to dazzle people. Unlike LED light strips, there are also requirements for where the headlights should point in the direction when you have turned on your normal light cone: it is always downwards and slightly away from oncoming traffic.
The reason for this is, as mentioned above – poorly tilted lights can dazzle oncoming drivers, and it`s a regular problem with cheap LED bulbs that haven`t been realigned. What is legal for owners/operators to buy? The DOS contain illegal lights Why other headlights don`t have the same problem, I can`t wait. I said xenon and LED lights should be illegal for so long. They blind me, and I know these drivers blind each other, so they know it`s too bright. Where I live, there is also the problem of drivers who always have their brightness on, and when they have this kind of light, they do not care about it. Since they`ve become more common, I literally can`t see at night because I`m literally blinded by oncoming headlights. This is not the case. Of course, laws vary by jurisdiction, but here in California, the law limits the intensity and targets standards very close to OEM headlights. Ultra-bright mods are prohibited. I think it is the quality of the radiation of the LEDs that is the main problem. As mentioned earlier, LED headlights emit much more blue light than incandescent bulbs.
In addition, they are very directive beams that concentrate their energy very efficiently and are therefore very bright for the observer even at low power levels. The solution is probably a softer and more diffuse variant of LEDs. I recently drove such a car and discovered that there is a third mode of headlights – “driving lights”, which are supposed to stay on all the time (i.e. in daylight). They are bright enough to see the road in my opinion, but certainly on the darker side. People regularly flashed me with the headlights in normal mode (not bright), but that stopped when I started using this 3rd mode. I want to see the act and its regulations. I want to expand my knowledge beyond people who say that “it`s illegal because traffic can be blinded due to inappropriate housing.” TL;DR: Factory LED headlights are fine. People who plug cheap LED bulbs into their halogen enclosures are the problem. There are reasons for blue-tinted bulbs. Yes, most people who modify their car this way are assholes, but there are reasons why the new headlights have cooler colors.
The legals adapt automatically and the only setting you are allowed to make is to lower them to accommodate things like towing a caravan that increases the angle of the car. It reminds me of a moment around 6 a.m. when I was driving home on a highway after a night shift. It was a large urban highway with 4 lanes in each direction and about 5 m median in between. I was in the second left lane in my direction (OFF, we drive left) and I saw this Camry coming in the other direction with its high beams. Even though I was about 15m across the street, I was still dazzled, so I flashed my headlights on the Camry. I don`t know if the Camry got the message, but the raised Nissan Patrol/Armada behind it certainly did and it blew up its huge light bar on the roof. It didn`t affect me as much as the Camry. I saw him go out of his lane just before passing him and losing sight of her. What laws give law enforcement officials a crap about law enforcement? This does NOT include illegal lights, I just wanted to say that my car (2014 American model BMW 435) has adaptive LED headlights that only rotate left to right with the steering wheel due to these headlight regulations in the US.
But on some vehicles with the right headlight groups, you can reprogram the anti-glare high beam (NGHB) function.