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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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  • I read somewhere (can’t remember where) that some people are buying illegal LED replacement lights for their motors. These are even brighter than the originals, and can be blinding for many people, especially older drivers, as certain eye conditions can make the lights seem brighter. The RAC and other campaign groups are trying to get the government to take action.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    It's not about LED's, before LED's people fitted HID lights that were way too powerful. The problem is that because the law specifies bulb power input and not light output it is impossible to prove what bulb is fitted without taking it out. Not the sort of thing you can just check by the roadside. Nothing stops people fitting higher power bulbs.

    I don't know at what point the law will catch up. The only way to stop it is to be highly specific. 

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    It's not about LED's, before LED's people fitted HID lights that were way too powerful. The problem is that because the law specifies bulb power input and not light output it is impossible to prove what bulb is fitted without taking it out. Not the sort of thing you can just check by the roadside. Nothing stops people fitting higher power bulbs.

    I don't know at what point the law will catch up. The only way to stop it is to be highly specific. 

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