1 hour ago, mac11irl said:

other things ive noticed with the newer light systems are that they over power older lights.

so, the light from , say an Octy 2's H7 halogens just gets eradicated by the higher energy photons from oncoming leds so you lose the visual range of even tracking along the verge for a line and spotting pedestrians and cyclists at the road edge.

 

I have Xenons and I find with LEDs, coming towards you, it is very hard to spot the kerb/edge of the road and cyclists without lights or pedestrians at the roadside or at zebra crossings, especially as they all tend to be wearing dark clothing and they just blend in with the darkness behind them as the glare of the other cars headlights effectively masks them if the other car is between you and them. 

Sometimes at night, these pedestrians, even with the lights on the crossings are exceedingly hard to spot if the glaring headlights are on the other side of the zebra crossing and the only indication that there is anyone on the crossing is the occasional blocking of their headlights as the pedestrians cross in front of them. It certainly would help if these other drivers could learn to dip their beams instead of relying the matrix doing its job and blanking of the part of the beam in your direction, in fact I'd go a step further and say that they should be banned from ever being fitted in the first place.  

On 12/01/2024 at 08:59, skomaz said:

On the cyclist subject the ones that are an issue round here are the commuters in dayglo orange and reflectives that then gave an high lumen off road conical beam LED flashing light on thier bike pointed straight out horizontally instead of angled down.

 

Get one of those coming at you or behind you with the light hitting your rear view and door mirrors and you know about it and have temporary blindness and colours in front of your eyes for a while after.  Thats not good for the safety of anyone...

I know the types, as a pedestrian the blind you too. Oddly most of them here loose their **** if you turn on your mountaineering torch and point it at the same angle they have their lights.

 

Fundamentally the rules are there for all vehicles and actually the problem come from nobody bothering to enforce them. When they’re not actively enforced they might as well not be there as people ignore them. Selling halogen sized LED for off-road use only is a swizz. Bikes with lights up at 5 degrees upwards are not allowed, but common.

 

Rather than new rules straight off, it might be useful to enforce those we have already.

The worst vehicle make I have noticed for this issue recently are Tesla's.

 

Noticed a few vehicles recently in different locations where their headlights have bothered me, and each of them were Tesla's. (at least three times)

 

The only other ones that sometimes bother me have been the SUV type...

 

Coming from a MK2 Octavia with (pretty much useless for seeing anything with) halogen headlights, to a vehicle with LED's....... I can now see where I am driving, when it is dark, Lol.

 

Not sure if I can even turn the 'Auto lights' off (whilst driving) without the vehicle turning them back on again. (still getting used to the car)

 

And also note, (for the mention of brake lights) I think with 'auto brakes' the brake lights stay on anyway, even if you remove foot from brake pedal, if the engine is running.?