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Brian Davis| Guest columnist

Bright headlights and super bright tail lights.

I'm talking about these new cars with the LED lights where it seems that they have their brights on. In some cases they actually do.

These lights are a danger because they're blinding. After the car passes you, your eyes are affected.

I know I'm not alone on this, because I talk to many people. There are multiple Facebook groups about this.There are multiple articles written about this.

There are also petitions that are being signed.

As always, it takes people with money and influence to die from an issue before anything is done.

So my rhetorical question is: When will the right people with money and influence die from a car accident due to night blindness because of the super bright LED lights on some vehicles?

In the meantime, I'm encouraging people to adjust their visors with all kinds of shading devices to block thelights from many cars.

The problem with this is decreases your lead time on seeing a pedestrian or a bicyclist or perhaps another car coming out in front of you.

I can't imagine the supposed safety factor of these super-blinding LED lights outweighs people being blinded by them or blocking their vision with visors.

Super bright LED brake lights on some of these vehicles are equally as dangerous, particularly when sitting behind them at a red light.

I know I'm not alone in this, because I talk to other people who experience the same thing.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has really missed the ball with allowing these vehicles to be manufactured and sold in the United States.

There's also the issue of people retrofitting their old headlight lenses with LEDs that end up being just as blinding, if not worse.

My question is what is being done by elected officials or bureaucrats about this? And why are police not citing these vehicles right and left for inspections?

Brian Davis lives inCathedral City.

Read more:
New LED headlights are blinding drivers. Will it take tragedy to fix it? - Desert Sun

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