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Are car LED lights too bright?

Sk8r Girl

Am I right with this or overreacting? 

I went to the shop just now to get Xmas cards as I ran out and every time a car went by it was dazzling. The LEDs on cars seem a little too bright to me. My Grandads got an older car and his lights are more yellow, bright enough but not in an overwhelming way. But just now every car that went by their lights were too bright, it kept dazzling me and I had to keep squinting and looking away.

Even the brake lights seem to be too bright, just so dazzling.

It made walking very uncomfortable and has left me with a throbbing head.

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  • in reply to photonic_electrons
    photonic_electrons said:
    modern car lights are daylight colour, old cars would have been a lot yellower.

    Fun fact - the yellower hues of the old lights were largely down to the technology used for the lighting filliment and these were quite limited in the wavelengths of light they produced and the energy required to make them work.

    These days LED lights are the norm - much more efficient in energy consumption and a much wider range of light wavelengths making it easier to see - especially colours - for human eyes.

    One downside if the increased blue wavelengths generated by the LED lights impact the human brain more, interfering with the circadian rythms and making it hard to sleep after being exposed to them.