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

Sorry, you said you start breaking randomly, it sounded like brake checking. If someone is tailgating me I slow down gradually too, if they're going to rear end me I'd rather it be at a slower speed 🤣
FWIW I don't tailgate, i hang well back from other cars. I'm very conscious of my lights although I appreciate most other drivers aren't. I think driving standards in general have dropped.

Not likely.

Who is going to pay for it firstly? Owners? No chance.

OEMs? No chance.

The fucked up Government of the day? More chance the first two cough up!

That said, its worthwhile mandating more eye tests for drivers too.

I have the same problem and a couple of years ago I bought some glasses with a special anti-glare coating purely for driving.

They really help (though obviously don’t solve the problem of the headlights being too bright to start with)!

I no longer drive at night either. I thought it was my age/astigmatism!!! But obviously not. I see 'trails' of light for seconds and feel slightly nauseated.

Hopefully they will include mandatory adjustments to cars currently on the roads? Might just be wishful thinking though

I don't brake check, I just slow down gradually till they back off. That's what my driving instructor told me to do. I don't see why they should bully their way past by tail gating and trying to blind me

Wonderful news, but it will only be worth the paper it’s written on if the government actually enforces it with a ban on lights over a certain strength. If they just issue a limp advisory then everyone will ignore them and carry on as is.

I’d ban them in a heartbeat - it may may the road easier for you to navigate, but it makes it 10x more dangerous for everyone else.

Until DH physically adjusted my headlights people thought I was driving with full beam on, it's just the normal beam on these LED lights.
Also, break checking is illegal and dangerous driving. Much safer to pull over and let them pass!

Not to be critical, and understand some people are affected, but this review is frankly nothing but toilet paper.

It wont address the millions of cars on the road that have current LED and Laser light headlights - and so while the next generation of vehicles that comply with whatever legislation is eventually laid, there will still be millions of cars out there that affect drivers (in different visual ways).

OEMs have gone down this route precisely because thats what they were mandated to do - although that said, there are still a great many people who even during daylight hours have fucking awful spatial awareness and driving "skills" and shouldnt be on the road - a far bigger issue than headlights.

Meh.

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can't you just put your side lights on if you are driving in a built up area?

It's about time people have been complaining about this for years. Driving at night is exhausting because of the bright headlights in front and behind. I also think there are quite a sizable minority of people that drive with full beams on busy roads because they don't seem to know how to work their lights. For those struggling with lights from car behind dazzling their wing mirror because driver too close I just start breaking randomly and find they soon back off

Yes, I've often had to pull over too. It's all very wrong.

I read this article this morning - at last

Ive had large SUVs tailgating me with these lights and blinding me, I have to find somewhere to pull over and get them in front of me.
Its terrible on motorways as the lights are blinding from behind as well as in front in the opposite direction and the drivers just don't realise

God I hope something comes of this. I'm sick to bloody death of cars built like tanks with headlights worthy of military searchlights. It's dangerous, intimidating and completely unnecessary. It's going to drive smaller cars (which are surely better all round) off the road just so a section of society can indulge in a vanity project.

I flash them back so they know that I know that I've genuinely not got my high beams on, that I've got the message and they don't need to flash me again and again as they drive towards me. I know my car lights are bright, to the extent that I've bought stickers from Halfords to put over my headlights and read the manual to see how to alter the position of the beams.

It's clearly an industry wide problem with newer cars and I'm glad the government is looking into it.

I hate these LED lights. We got a new (to us) Kia Sportage last year after an artic lorry wrote off my little Fiat 500 and I wanted a bigger car as I was driving the Fiat when it got hit (driver didn't see me and cut me up). Unfortunately the Kia has these horrible lights. I kept getting flashed by other drivers thinking I had full beam on which really stressed me out. My DH figured out how to adjust the height/angle of the lights which has improved it and I don't get flashed anymore (apart from after the MOT a few months ago when they must have reset the lights 🙈).

Auto-dip is also a problem. Without auto-dip a decent driver on an unlit road dips their beams when they see beams appearing at a corner, well before the car itself comes around the corner. Auto-dip only recognises that there is an oncoming car well after that car has come around the corner, by which time you’ve dazzled them. Auto-dip doesn’t always recognise rear lights (potentially dazzling the driver ahead of you) and is confused by some road signs reflecting back at you (so your beams flash repeatedly as you approach the sign).

I tend to drive with auto-dip disabled.

It’s a vicious circle.

In my 2008 car with standard headlights is awful to drive in the dark to the point where I won’t drive that one in the dark any more. Vehicles behind me with much brighter lights cause a ‘shadow’ in my lights right in front of me making it quite difficult to see the kerb and where the road goes.

My newer car (and any hire cars I have for work, which is regular) have newer brighter lights and it isn’t difficult for me to be able to see. No doubt to the detriment of those around me.

I also find that driving with glasses in the dark helps my astigmatism. I can read a number plate at the legal distance without problem but the glasses do help reduce the star effect and sharpen up things in the dark. It’s been a game changer. So even if you don’t legally need glasses it might be worth an eye test and getting some. Mine is a weak prescription but it does really help.

It's fantastic news that something is being done about this. I hate driving at night because of the glare.

A pp mentioned that some cars indicators are too small. I hate the pulsating ones with one LED tall . As you can miss it. Give me the blinking ones.

It is! Or at least, astigmatism makes it worse. I've always had problems with headlights at night and only recently learnt that astigmatism means the light is scattered weirdly for us, and makes the glare worse than for other people.

I was driving down the motorway late at night last week. First time I’ve done that in a while. Most cars were fine but the odd one came up behind and my rear view mirror was just pure white. It was horrible.

Agree I actually stopped my car the other day to recover after a cyclist's crazy lights hurt my eyes.

If you know you are blinding people to the point they feel the need to flash you then why on earth would you then "flash them back". How stupid.
And why not speak to a garage and get the issue sorted?

I often flash drivers if they are blinding me.