Thousands of humans gather on social media platforms to complain about the increase in ultra-British headlights, which the oncoming drivers temporarily blindly and may damage the vision.
A driver on Reddits Chat page “F -Yourheads” almost described in a ditch after bright headlights were unable to see the curve in the street in front of her.
“Can we make you illegal for the love of God's insanely bright headlights?” She asked and repeated the feeling of many US drivers who were frustrated by the LED headlights installed in most new American cars.
A legislator of the house has proposed a solution: Develop a standard for the maximum brightness on the lumens in vehicle headlights to reduce the glare and to improve safety for other drivers.
“This is something that supports the law enforcement authorities from rural Americans, older Americans,” said Rep.
There is currently no total limit for the brightness of headlights with a low ray, and the drivers complain that they become lighter and lighter, which leads to a dangerous glare.
“I still see High Beams three days ago,” complained a driver on social media.
Car manufacturers prefer lighter LED or light-emitting diode headlights compared to the old halogen lamps, since they are considered cheaper and more reliable, have a longer lifespan and consume less energy than halogen lamps.
They were adopted for the first time in the early 2000s and are now installed in more than 80% of the new cars.
The LEDs do more light and a brighter, bluish light than halogen lamps that have been used for decades.
The LED gloss is tightened to SUVs and trucks, which are higher on the street.
The legislators of the house have the opportunity to address dazzling headlights in the upcoming laws in order to be able to authorize the legislation for the country's surface traffic programs.
Ms. Perez wants the legislation to include the language that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration authorizes in order to develop the limits of the overall brightness of the headlight lumen.
“The committee deals to apply for and collect proposals for all members of the house for examination in the surface realization laws that we will design this year. We will consider all the suggestions of all members as part of this process,” said a spokesman for the committee.
Your proposal is three years after the legislature had tried to solve the problem with a new regulation, with which cars can be equipped with adaptive headlight bars that automatically adapt to avoid the glare of opposite traffic.
The new technology has been slowly introduced and is not yet available in most new cars or standard.
Some cars made by European car manufacturers, including Audi, have installed the technology in US cars, but deactivated it because it was not yet legal in the United States. The NHTSA adopted a modified version of the European Adaptive Beam regulations for US cars, citing security reasons.
The adaptive beam headlight technology approved by the NHTSA in 2022 enables vehicles to be equipped with automatic headlight -switching technology in order to shine less light, and more light on areas that are not occupied.
The NHTSA said that the technology illuminated pedestrians, animals and objects without fading the drivers in other vehicles.
So far, the technology is available as an option or contained in some models made by Tesla and Rivian, as well as some cars and trucks made by Audi, BMW, Mazda, Toyota and Lexus.
Ms. Perez said that the new technology has not solved the problem of how the thousands of complaints from blinded drivers can be seen.
“Let's be honest, it didn't help,” she said.
Critics of a brightness limit say that the problem is far more complex than lumens. Missed headlight rays and other problems, such as the installation of LED headlights according to the market, which were not built for you, can lead to a dazzling look for oncoming drivers.
Mike Baker, President of the anti-guided group Soft Lights Foundation, collected thousands of signatures in a petition to demand the NHTSA that it has to define an overall limit for intensity with headlights with a low beam.
He submitted the petition last year in a letter to the NHTSA.
“Due to the lack of a total intensity limit, the extreme intensity plus the light blue long -length light used in most LED headlights, drivers and pedestrians are blinded by excessive glare and the risk of public security is at risk,” wrote Baker.