This, and vehicles over a certain size and height should be banned.
As someone with an eye disability (keratoconus) and light sensitivity, I've had to completely give up trying to drive at night because headlights are so physically painful. Sometimes I even have to wear sunglasses as a passenger. It fucking sucks.
Fwiw, I've found a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat is a good way to avoid being tailgated by assholes with laser beams
It is really, really, stupid there are no laws regulating this, but Canada can do nothing unless US does it and that won't happen.
There are a lot of lighting laws for this stuff, just nobody has enforced it
There are no max headlight brightness laws in Canada.
Halogens are 1200 lumens, but these LEDs are three times that, then some asshole lifts his truck and doesn't re-aim them, because bright lights are yet another penis surrogate. But the bigger problem in Canada is we do not periodically safety inspect vehicles at all, so morons go crazy on Alibaba.
In most countries, vehicles are inspected annually after three years from new.
I guess I mean we have lighting laws or maybe standard is the proper term for NorthAmerican lighting with various US SAE and Canadian motor vehicle SAE regulations for headlight design /aiming. A company I worked for used to work with headlamp and tail lamp data and had a light testing tunnel.
But you throw in a bulb with the wrong focal length for your cars parabola and you get splayed light in all directions instead of a parallel aimed beam. In Ontario a law governs improper headlight aim, but I have rarely seen anyone get a ticket
Those bright white headlights should be illegal. Fuck your headlights! Seriously.
Aging and cataracts affect magnitude of glare from headlights as well. But for regular vision? Way too bright. So now standards for headlight brilliance should be added to the other standards list like, for example, pickup truck size.
Just make all provincial roads be toll roads based on weight.
You've solved oversized vehicles and have money to maintain roads now.
Next can we get surveys going to fix the lines on the road that disappear when it rains at night?
Ontario and some provinces have an oil based paint that stays on tyr road with its reflective properties. BC uses some environmentally friendly paint that is totally faded in no time.
We need the European line markers. They're super visible in all conditions!
Because Europe did not rely on road lighting.
I’ve filled it out already; I recommend everyone else does too.
I'd argue it has become so bad it is now a problem during daylight as well
I was behind a new Mazda 3 the other day and the turning signal was so bright it was leaving an after image in my vision. The bloody turn signal on the back of the car. Crazy.
It has been for a while, because people can't seem to bother checking that they're running with high beams during the day, and for some reason they've turned their lights on. Maybe the vehicle was purchased with the lights on manual and they've never turned them off. I wouldn't put it past some people.
These new bright white lights are bad when not on high beams. Blindingly bad. I even saw a police car (in the us) with them once. Society decays.
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