To be happy about this...re headlight glare..link attached

Yes, I did but probably wasn't clear! The walls of the bridge were made out of rocks ( v. Old bridge) so bita sticking out everywhere

I do agree that seeing people in dark clothing is problematic but when driving you look in front of you and slightly left. This gives you some indication of what’s on your left. In an area with crossings, it’s built up with street lights so you can see fairly well.

@HelplessSoul Unless they make “too bright” a fail for the MOT? Most people writing here seem somewhat challenged by driving at night though. No review will alter that.

@CharlesRydersMum That doesn’t happen very often though and ALL headlights are at the wrong angle as a car comes up over a bridge. Your lights should be on the wall of the bridge. Look at the wall illuminated by your car. Avert your eyes from the oncoming car. Most modern cars have bright lights!

If anyone has tips on managing this on hills I'd be really glad to hear them.

I live rurally in very hilly country. Yesterday I was going over a tight-ish bridge (very old) with a blind brow. A car with LEDs was also approaching and I stopped to move over a bit more for them, but was so dazzled it was difficult to gauge how close I was to the wall of the bridge.

I won’t drive at night as know I’ll end up in an accident because of these lights so this is good news.

It's not that though. As a driver it's hard to see if there are pedestrians around due to the glare of the other cars. I have to drive down a long straight road with several pedestrian crossings to collect DD from a club. If there's a constant stream of traffic I cannot tell if there is a pedestrian waiting to cross. Doesn't help that most people wear long black winter coats and dark trousers!

How can this Avoid looking straight ahead, instead focus on the edge of the road be genuine safety advice. Hey, you're driving! Don't look where you're driving! 🤦‍♀️

Whatever this bullshit "review" might change or suggest - as I said earlier, it wont make a blind bit of difference to the tens of millions of cars out there with LED/Laser headlights.

This review is nothing but a ponzi scheme to placate moaning people and also to keep some asshole(s) in a job while they write some meaningless word salad about lights being bright.

I mean, FFS, they are lights - isnt them being bright kinda the fucking point?

Otherwise no cars would have lights and we'd all drive really blind in the dark!

I've been driving a different vehicle regularly recently (long story) which has the horrible overly bright and too high lights and I find I'm much less impacted by the dazzle from other cars' obnoxious lights in turn. Seems like a form of arms race really where newer cars will just outbrighten and outdazzle each other. I will be very pleased if it's stopped personally.

I know people who don’t wear glasses, go for the free annual optician appointment that their employer gives them as use computers. Eyesight not changed but find modern car lights bad

@LlamaNoDrama Get a dipping mirror? You don’t need to keep looking in wing mirrors. Plus his lights should have been pointing on the road, it must have been a huge lorry close to you if the lights were in your rear view mirror! I’d just dip it though. Makes a big difference.

I’ve driven 35 miles back from London this evening. I saw one car with what I considered to be lights that were too bright. One. On a trunk road, motorway, A road and country lanes. This isn’t a major issue. I have a feeling it will sink without trace as it’s unenforceable. It will take a lot of police time to catch one car if my recent experience is standard. I think it is. Most people complaining seem to be driving old cars with poor lights.

Good. It's got ridiculous. I had a car behind me last week with such bright lights I was having to move in my seat to avoid the reflection of them from my mirrors blinding me and I'm pretty sure I could have turned my lights off and still been able to see ahead of me.

Another factor overlooked is phones.

Everyone is glued to their damn devices, squinting at things on a small screen - so the eyes suffer from strain.

Then when behind the wheel, bright lights seem to cause them issue(s) because their eyes cannot cope!!

Headlights on their own are not an issue - theres a multitude of factors at play, which this pointless toilet paper "review" will almost certainly overlook and fail to mention.

The new Defenders are the absolute worst. I had one behind me earlier. My rear view was topped, but the LR lights were coming around my car like a full beam!

I'm happy to hear this. There was a discussion last night on LBC about this subject and some bloke phoned in and said nothing has changed about the headlights,it was just elderly drivers who's eyesight was going and shouldn't be driving any more complaining about it! I don't think this is true,I know quite a few people who are definitely not elderly complaining about it.

I've just driven at night for the first time in about six months and I could honestly cry.

The stupid LED streetlights that don't light the streets or paths and the modern car LEDs that light up everything and dazzle me made it so stressful. We had a RR Defender behind and even with my rear view mirror tilted it was distractingly bright.

@OverlyFragrant That's not the case. I don’t blind everyone. My headlights are adjusted properly and shine in front of MY car and the roadside - as they should. It’s about time everyone got the direction of their lights checked. I’m never flashed by oncoming cars. I also have a 35 year old Merc and that has adjustable headlights. Plus they are fairly glow-worm but I don’t have any issues driving it. Because it has well adjusted lights!

@SodOffbacktoaibu

Bad driving etc at any time of day, I feel, is far worse than powerful LED/Laser headlights.

As for the Police - meh - they couldnt care less about safer driving - all they want to do is monetise people who drive at 31mph in a 30mph zone. Attempting to deal with more serious motoring crimes isnt monetised so the fuckers arent interested.

And then they wonder why people think the cops are cunts.....

@Rpop I find it is worse since I got a smaller car. Some men have a weird entitlement and like to bully women in small cars out of the way. I have also seen a lot of younger women driving aggressively like this too though.

I find it very stressful and frustrating. I'm not dawdler. Tailgating people so they break the speed limit is really bad. Sadly we have no enforcement for driving like this. I would love to see more traffic police.

@HelplessSoul you're correct but the headlights and tail gaters are an awful combination.

i hate it, after last winter i was desperate to change my hours so i finish at 3

Headlights and bad driving are 2 different issues.

Bad driving also happens in broad daylight and is not connected with headlights etc.

Thank goodness, these bloody LEDs are dangerous and unnecessary

Cant abide when they flash to say thanks

arghhh

Yes, been shocked this week following clock changes

was driving at 30 this evening and some
fucker was up close behind. Headlights dazzled me wveytime i looked in mirror

i hate driving in the dark

The dazzle from headlights scares me as it is a migraine trigger for me.

and yes, why are so many people driving so close. It is appalling. I’m sure it wasn’t so bad a couple of decades ago. It’s so unnecessarily dangerous.

I now have glasses for driving, even though I don't really need them much - the opticians coated them with a glare reducer and it helps.

I hate these LED high intensity lights. So many drivers round here have Teslas , SUVs etc but it's also the work vans , motorbikes (those are really bad) and loads of lorry drivers bedeck their lorries with them, even though they must have had a good view of the road before. I find ne minis bad as well. It's not just big cars - it's a design trend. My poor little 65 plate C1 gets caught in the glare.

I think many drivers know they have them and there's a bit of a macho culture attached to it.