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Canadian friends who drive: Transport Canada is soliciting feedback on ultra-bright vehicle headlights and headlight glare at night.

I encourage you to give them data on your experience, so that they might update the regulations to stop SUVs from routinely blinding me with their factory-fitted Nuclear Fireball 9000 LED Darkness Devastators Shock And Awe Edition headlights aimed directly into my face and eyes.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

Transport Canada

Eric Lawton 4d ago

My final comment was that although it takes less than a minute to adapt when the offending vehicle has gone, their getting so common that the next vehicle often immediately replaces it.

@bonaventuresoft

@EricLawton @danderson @bonaventuresoft don’t forget the ™️ on that most awesome product name!

@danderson done!

@danderson hopeful that this bleeds over to the US, too
-F

Catherine Babault 4d ago

@danderson Done!

RaymondPierreL3 4d ago

@danderson
Same problem here in Australia, but it’s not just SUVs, some sedans also have the same kind of lens fryers you talk about….

Baloo Uriza 4d ago

@danderson The stupid thing is those are already illegal in any US state that wants federal highway funding since the 1950s, we just don't enforce laws on motorists since I was in grade 9.

economística 4d ago

@danderson great that they're asking which I assume is the first step to fix it

but

did they really have to ask lol

Dave Anderson 4d ago

@dancer_storm regulatory changes, especially those that might attract a vocal minority of angry motorists who want to dominate the road with their miniature sun, go more smoothly if the regulator has a paper trail as evidence that this is a problem and that there's widespread public support for action.

AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦4d ago

@danderson People who don’t drive like me can fill the survey too. 😊

Pete Anderson 🚲4d ago

@danderson This is a survey I've been waiting for, and I made sure to include comments about how they're actually much worse for people outside of cars (walking, biking). I hate the new super bright lights with the heat of a thousand suns.

@danderson folks who don't drive but merely try to exist safely on the street beside Canadians who do: please also respond to this survey.

Tilda Moose, citizen 4d ago

@danderson
Amen. Overly bright headlights must die in a fire now.

@danderson It even ends with a "Do you have any other comments?" textbox that you can leave a profanity laden rant in!

Andrew Zonenberg 4d ago

@danderson headlight positioning is a concern too.

A lot of big trucks have headlights that are exactly at eye level for an oncoming small sedan. A light of the same brightness but a foot or two closer to the road would be less of a problem if angled correctly.

🇨🇦 Little-k 3d ago

@danderson
This is one of the main factors of why I stopped driving at night. Bright beam after bright beam making it nearly impossible to drive safely.

@danderson I saw a photo a while back that showed a car with multi-LED headlights lighting a wall. There were two dark spots in the middle, and the explanation given was that with such a headlight, you can shape the beam however you want, and the darker spots is where they place the photodetectors when doing homologation. So these manufacturers builds illegally bright lights that still test legal.

Also Teslas, especially model x, are blinding.

Michael Labowicz 2d ago

@danderson hope this becomes adopted world wide. It's gotten out of control