This needs to be done at a federal level. Immediately. New pickup trucks are the worst.

As a truck driver this needs to be done ASAP. Several times I've almost ran off the road from blinding light

I totally agree and support this. So many headlights out there that are just blinding even when they are on low beam. Can you imagine what it’s like for the elderly.

Yes, this needs to be done asap. I can’t drive at night bc of these headlights. I can’t see anything else

This is main reason I don’t like driving when it gets dark, the new LED headlights from cars driving the opposite direction is blinding.

Best part is when you think they have their hi-beams on, you flash yours at them to let them know. Then they flash theirs on, sending your eyes into the shadow realm.

In drivers ed, back a few decades ago, you were taught even dim on divided highways with no barriers. That has gone out the window. No common sense any more. Everybody says: “well I don’t care if no one else can see, as long as I can”. That’s my 2 cents…

Some of these headlights are beyond absurd in their brightness. Ive definitely had several terrifying experiences where the lights are so bright that I can’t see for a few seconds each time those lights hit me directly in the eyes. Pro-tip folks, if you’re driving keep your eyes on the white line on the right side of the road it’ll reduce the blinding effect of these lights

It's about Freaking Time!!! That needs to be Nation wide!

I absolutely agree. They use to call them Highbeams and it was illegal to use when other cars were around. Now it's just normal and it's crazy. It's blinding and hazardous

The auto manufacturers need to be held accountable

I'm so glad I'm not alone on this issue! Headlights on more modern vehicles are brighter than they used to be & it seems like they have their brights on.

You've got my vote. Really tired of being blinded by rude oncoming drivers.

I remember when headlights were adjustable and were checked at vehicle inspection stations.

Part of the problem is the non enforcement of laws that every state has regulating the height of headlights from the ground. In my state, it's usually around 36 inches from the ground to the center of the headlight. There is also laws as to high high the bumper can be from ground level.

I feel this. I've hated this for years. It's why I try to avoid ever driving at night.

I hope this goes nation wide

This is my problem when I drive at night. These lights are so bright that I can’t even see the road. 😡🤬

Agree . These bright headlights make driving at night difficult.

i remember several years ago there was a motorcyclist at night that had such a blinding light that I couldn't even tell what side of the road they were on let alone see ahead of me to avoid them.

Back in the 70s I was a vehicle inspector and there were rules on how high your headlights were and how they were set. This needs to come back. I can no longer drive at night due the headlight problem.

This petition needs to go nationwide. Not only are bright lights blinding coming at you but also behind you. I have too many goobers tailgate me with their lifted trucks and eBay LED headlights and they make the interior of my car so bright I can't see what's ahead of me.

I would love to sign such a petition.

In the late 80’s state inspections that included headlight aiming all but stopped. This along with the lack of fines/tickets has really become a serious problem! I’m in the state of Arkansas and it’s a problem here as well. I would/will sign a petition to reduce this problem! It will only change with fines imposed!

I refuse to drive after dark, unless I absolutely have to, for these reasons. I drive a Honda Civic and everybody’s lights blind me. This definitely needs to be addressed.

This happened to me as I was driving and I thought the other driver coming towards me had his brights on. So I flashed my brights real quick so he would turn his off. He flashed his brights at me, showing me that he wasn’t driving with his brights on.

Clas action lawsuit against car insurance companies that do not create parameters on these bright headlights and NOT keeping stats on headlight caused crashes.

Signed the petition. This is getting out of hand

I’m 81 so I can recall vehicles back to the 40’s and I remember when the police gave tickets for headlights being to bright. The brightest cars on the road were VW’s back then. The yearly car inspections also included making sure your headlights were aimed properly. As time went by lighting supposedly improved until we get what we have today. I’m glad to see someone complaining about it.

I’m with this fully. You dont need to see the future in front of your ride.

Was driving in a snowstorm on a 2 lane highway and the amount of people who leave their brights on is idiotic. Literally one of the first things you learn for your driving test is NOT to use brights in fog or snow.

Don’t matter how tall, as long as the proper aiming is done. A lot of the problem is people throwing leds in, and reflectors for halogen are not designed for leds, so you get a different pattern. Along time ago I remember the station I worked at had a headlight aim tester that you had to use during motor vehicle inspections. I say bring back inspections in all 50 states.

This issue is annoying but most importantly dangerous.

I remember when headlight aiming was part of motor vehicle inspections. So states who took that away are also to blame.

It's Not Because of the headlights!!! I'm an Over The Road Truck Driver, and I get blinded every night!!! It's because people don't have the lights adjusted properly!!! When people get headlights replaced, they don't adjust them!!

Where do I sign? Finally a thread of sanity in the news!

This situation has been going on for a couple of years now, glad it's finally being seriously discussed.

I was starting to think I was the only one. How did car companies not think that this would be an issue? People now also drive with their high beams on all the time. It's not like you were getting into accidents every day without them. I read somewhere that Europe has the light tilted down and out, so as to avoid blinding drivers, but the US won't start implementing that kind of lighting for a few years and it will only be on the more luxury cars. Hope the petition brings some change.

Biggest issue I see is poorly adjusted headlights and the idiots who blatantly just run with their highs.

Hope more progress on this is made. Absolutely a dangerous issue.

It's about time someone doing some action, where do I sign?

I'm happy to see so many people feel the same as me. It is about time! Walking facing traffic can be really dangerous.

This needs to be done soon. The older I get it's getting harder to see at night, the same time lights are getting brighter

This is the responsibility of whoever inspects the vehicles in states that require yearly safety inspections !

Happening here in Europe too. It's absolutely ridiculous.

A big danger, not just to drivers, is to pedestrians crossing two or more opposing lanes of traffic. No matter how good one driver's lights are, he won't see the pedestrian if he's blinded, or the pedestrian is washed out, by the opposing vehicles' lights.

Don't even get me started with the aftermarket lights people add that are sold as off-road use only but people use them all the time, even during the day!

It's gotten so bad that I don't drive anywhere at night when it's raining. I have found myself not being able to see anything at all of where I am on the road when a car comes toward me on a two lane road in the rain. Really scary and dangerous.

Yes! I drive a large truck with old school headlights and I am blinded nightly!

I live in Tennessee and I completely agree with this!

These light are brighter on dim than the old lights are on bright. On rainy nights, I have been blinded to the point of running in the ditch. These new brighter lights should be outlawed.

The problem with solely regulating the aim is that cars/trucks going up a hill or over a bump will still blind you. Those LED headlights have got to go.

We can thank Elizabeth Dole, who was secretary of Transportation ( who was chauffeured every where she went), for these bright headlights. She said drivers can see farther now. I remember thinking, I could put 2 locomotive headlights on my truck and I could see farther, and blind everyone in the process. I’ve had to come to a complete stop on a country 2 lane road while driving a tanker because I couldn’t see anything. When on a divided highway (with a concrete barrier) we get blinded by these bright oncoming headlights, where car and suv drivers do not. We all get blinded even when they are behind us. Since these headlights are so bright, they should not have high beams or driving lights. Driving lights (clear or white lights, below the bumper) are illegal within 500 ft of oncoming traffic or 250 ft of following traffic. But these laws are never enforced.

As someone that has a short vehicle (and is just a shorter person in general), there are some cars that have their headlights aligned at just the right position where it literally feels like I'm staring at the sun itself.

I agree 💯 the lights have increased greatly in brightness and yes they are blinding and the glare is very blinding. The over intensive brightness and glare are causing more wrecks and this must be corrected expeditely to save lives while driving at night.

You can't stop being blinded by headlights in any hilly area. WV driver here. The best thing to do is adjust the headlamp's beam, make that a part of vehicle inspection and get ticketed for it being out of range

When I was younger, the annuaL vehicle inspection always included a test of Headlight aiming at a certain distance, if it was 'off' you did not get a pass!

Something that happens in my state is also people just drive with high beams on. They need to do something about that.

Not to mention how many drivers have their brights on not knowing or simply not caring.

This is a huge problem that is more serious than most driving hazards. I stopped driving at night because of this problem.

It's terrible when you come over a hill and it's a corner and they have LED lights, you can't see, it doesn't matter if they are pointing in the right way, they are still blinding at night!!!

This has been going on for years and years. Always getting blinded by these insane highbeams. People have no consideration of others

It's those blue lights that are on the new vehicles that are blinding people whether the truck sits high or low

I'll sign that petition, I live in South Carolina...

Finally something we all can agree on. And I'm usually the first to be against government bans, but it's crazy hard to see often.

I remember when during a annual car inspection the head lights were checked on a back wall chart and adjusted as needed, those days are long gone.

It’s gotten so bad in rural areas that people shine their brights at me because they think I have my brights on. Sometimes I just shut them off so they can only see my day time running lights/ fog lights when I see a car incoming

You failed to mention police lights. The blues and reds are so intense and flashing so fast that you have to close your eyes as you go past. I’m sure that’s safe…😮. Hopefully they aren’t walking across the road!

For those blinded by these lights, I bought the yellow tint and blue light blocking glasses they go over my prescription glasses and it has helped so much.

They should’ve addressed these fools with off road light bars driving on the road. I drive at night for a living and this is totally out of control. There is no standard like years ago, headlights could only be at a certain height at a distance. Now it’s just a free for all. No one inspects this anymore. Hopefully they can finally get something passed to regulate this issue

We’ve got the same problem here in Australia, it doesn’t help when people deliberately fit after market lights to their cars that are illegal, come from China and are sold everywhere in Auto parts stores here in Australia and there is no police controlling it.

The aftermarket LED bulbs often don’t have a focused beam. OEM headlights focus the light in front of the vehicle towards the path of travel. Aftermarket LED often use multiple diodes that instead broadcast every direction in front of the vehicle Edit: Use of headlights that aren’t DOT approved should be prohibited

Properly aimed Headlights is just ONE factor of several that determines if Headlights cause dangerous and distracting Glare. These tests by the IIHS are great if ALL Roads were flat and straight. We all know there's many undulations in nearly all roads as well as this little thing called topography. Besides that, roads curve around, are winding and meandering much of the time. Even if the headlights are perfectly aimed, reflection off of puddles in the road will still cause glare to oncoming motorists and pedestrians. Factory (OEM) Headlights are indeed getting brighter than ever before despite what BS the IIHS is trying to deceive us with. Also, they tell you to focus your eyes on the white line to your right. You shouldn't have to because now you're shifting your vision slightly to the right and you lose some of the awareness of what's going on to your left and straight ahead. They say, not to look directly at the headlights..., well, that's not always possible because if you are trying to turn unto a street, GUESS Where you will be looking to safely make that turn or merge ?!? Directly at the headlights of traffic !! Some may say, If LED Headlights bother you so much, you shouldn't be driving at night..., to that, I say, If you feel that you need Ultra Bight, High Color Temperature (Bluish, Arctic Blinding White) in order to drive safely at night, perhaps you should not be driving at night because, I've been driving since I was 15 years old, always with Halogen Headlights and I've NEVER had a problem seeing exactly what I needed to see and without blinding other drivers and pedestrians.

We don't just need limits on how bright they can be, we also need limits on how high on the car they can be mounted

I've had friends who also DIED driving home from work bc of how blinding other vehicles are. Didn't gelp that there were no streetlights and almost all the cars turn on their brights even when there are other cars around

They need to make a law forcing cars and trucks with LEDS to have them aimed down instead of straight forward.

Why isn't there a law on this... it's one of the most dangerous things for safety issues. Even when a car or truck is behind it also blinds, so I have to adjustment all mirrors so the light doesn't hit my retina.

This is a big problem I'm glad to see someone finally talking about it

Hope this gets resolved . Very dangerous

I dont understand how they ever allowed those light to be legal in the first place. One night a guy was coming at me and his lights were so bright that I couldnt see a guy crossing in a crosswalk in front of me. I saw him at the last second and jammed on my brakes. Fortunately I didnt hit him

This is the #1 reason I no longer drive at night.

This is why I have to drive with my sun glasses on even at cloudy day or at night. It’s time to do something to stop it!

I guess the death toll isn't high enough yet to do anything about the dangerous headlights! It's not glare it's bright a _ _ headlights!! From Texas 🤠🤯

Even when they're behind, that glare is so bad it overwhelms the reactive rear-view mirror. I've had to pull over to the side, to let the damn thing pass.

Where can I sign this petition? This is a real problem.

I’m a trucker whose shift is nighttime. I’ve noticed these bright lights belong to more aggressive drivers who weaponize their vehicle with super bright lights and attitude. Also DoitYourself mechanics don’t know how to correctly install and aim a headlight.

Misalignment, whether it’s intentional or by accident, is the biggest reason for the bright headlights. The fact that anyone can change the angles and that no inspection is done as part of the registration is also a big problem. Another reason would be the DOT spec headlights, which must allow small amount of lights above the passengers’ eye level simply because it can be very dark on the U.S. roads. European and Japanese specs do not allow as much lights above the eye level.

They are in all newer cars and trucks. It has nothing to do with mis aimed headlights. The factories are mounting and aiming them correctly. The newer led headlights are just far too bright

As a person who drives often, I witness high beam lights used in conjunction with aggressive tailgating. These are a often used to intimidate other drivers into moving out the aggressor driver's path. Very dangerous.

100% agree I felt like their kind of getting our of hand is so bad I stopped using my mirrors at night and point them to deflect light from tail gaters

And that little electric piano for the theme to close encounters

I don’t even need to watch the news segment. WHERE DO I SIGN THIS DARN PETITION?! 😤

Same here in England, ridiculous led lights are incredibly dangerous, I use small country lanes with no street lights and spend half the journey blinded praying theres no cyclist or pedestrians in front of me, who gets blamed if I hit someone whilst blinded?

They need to ban these super bright ligts. Im tired of wearing sun glass's at night.

I WILL SIGN THAT PETITION!!!!!! MY EYE WAS BURNED AND DAMAGED. HUGE GAS GUZZLING TRUCK CAME UP BEHIND ME TAILGATEING. S

Long-winded gripe here: I have LED light bulbs in my house. I have LED interior lights in my van. All these LED light sources are of a warm white, 4000K or less color temperature similar to that of incandescent lighting. We have the technology to make sub 4000K headlights that are efficient LED's! Fun fact: All of the LEDs in your flashlights, interior lights, light bulbs etc are BLUE LEDs. These blue emitters are coated with a layer of material that is doped with certain compounds that fluoresce (glow) with that familiar cold-white /gray-blue colored light. I can't remember what it is at the moment. Your soft-white LEDs have more of the compound that further reduces the color temperature to a warmer light. (No, it really doesn't make sense that a higher color temp is considered a colder light, but it is what it is. 3500k = "warm white" vs. 6000K = "cool white".) So why can't these automakers source sub 4000k color temperature LED's to install in their vehicles? Is it availability? Cost effectiveness? Does the compound that emits the warmer light not withstand the hotter nature of headlight-grade LEDs? I don't know. But I do know that I have never seen a warm white, LED headlight. OR streetlight, for that matter. Also, something else to consider: A shocking number of "drivers" simply either don't know how, are totally oblivious, or don't care or are too busy on the cellphone to turn off their damn high-beams for vehicles in front of them! These "high beamers" need to be fined for causing a traffic hazard. Especially cellphoners! I have had this one Honda Civic driver, (it's NOT just big trucks!) come at me several times with his LED brights on. Even if I flash him, he will refuse to turn his high-beams off. Before anyone asks, No, that's not actually his low-beams. I have seen this itty-bitty Civic with the low beams on and they are totally tolerable. Additionally: If you must park on the side of the road and leave the car running, park on your RIGHT hand side, and TURN THE HEADLIGHTS OFF! This too, I have had to deal with! Foggy morning. Dark and very poor visibility. Some dipwad parks his car facing oncoming traffic and leaves the damn high-beams on! So tell me this.. When you pass a pair of headlights that are facing you, what side do you pass them on? You pass to the right of them! (In places that drive on the right) So yeah.. Two hyper-nova, night-sun, ultra-blue, million watt, death-rays are shining in my face. I can't see, I slow way down, I go to pass to the right of these "Headlights" and go off the damn road! Park on the RIGHT and leave on ONLY the parking lights. Or better idea: Park in the damn driveway! (again, terminology fails as we park in a driveway, and drive on a parkway ??) Finally: COPS! Yeah, all of you police officers.. If the guy is already pulled over, turn all of those strobes and wig-wag high-beams etc OFF! You guys out there lit up like you're signaling aliens and shit. CHILL! You're gonna give someone a damn seizure and kill them! Plus nobody can see a damn thing when we have to go by and you have someone stopped. Use a dimmer, AMBER sequential light-bar and hazard flashers. If you're worried about being seen at night, try ditching the military/swat-team black shit and go back to wearing BLUE, and stop using blacked-out SWAT or militant looking cruisers and go back to normal black & white sedans with reflective markings and clearly visible star/shield "(jurisdiction name here) Police" markings. You're POLICE, not military spec. ops or secret service. No need to be all blacked out and then have a blinding, dazzling, light-show that can be seen from the Andromeda galaxy! SHEESH! Bonus gripe: Advertisers and businesses with those LED billboards: TURN THEM OFF AT NIGHT! Or at least limit displays to only dark color themes, or set them up to go a LOT dimmer after dark! We drive down the road and BAM! Some bright white ad explodes in our faces! If you use such signs/billboard after dark, I will never use your product/service! Same for traffic lights in darker areas. The green comes on and we're frikkin' blind! Dim it down after dark! (But I guess you need to have green light death-rays for those who are busy texting and still don't notice a green light...Cellphones in cars.. a whole other topic I could go on about! Put. It. Down!)

I agree that something needs to be done for those people who have these very bright headlights whether it is miss aiming them or super bright lights. Some of the worst lights are the ones that have a large blue content to the light that only provides for glare.

Bout dam time

Too many people buying unnecessary vehicles they can barely pay for and then saving money on doing their own maintenace adds to this problem as well. Constantly in winter one meets vehicles with half blind or only one headlight. One head light can cost thousands as I have read. Everyone wants trucks, but they don't have the bucks.

When you change the lightbulbs, you have to angle them to reduce glare? Is that what im hearing? And how?