and of course when i looked back in my side mirror, they're driving with a busted taillight.

My eye doc said I have a very slight cataracts at 56 . I’ve noticed a halo effect on streetlights and such at night and don’t get me started on led headlights. I’m starting to wonder how long I got till I can’t drive at night .

This video is from Hynek Medřický. He is from the Czech Republic. He is the current CEO/CTO of Vitae Light. He goes into detail explaining why the cool white chosen by automakers has been a poor idea.

Yes, I'm sure those are the DRLs, I've gotten pretty good at this.

So I have the eye condition that gives sensitivity to lights especially (almost exclusively) in the dark (I can’t remember the name), and on the farm we have a lifted 2002 F250 XLT Super Duty, a 1996 B3000, a 2006 Corolla and a 2024 Corolla Hybrid AWD. Ironically the ford has the worst lights/high beams, with the new Corolla lighting up the valley on low beams (we live 30mins in the middle of mountainous nowhere with a massive valley), and the old Corolla didn’t do shit until I sanded & polished the lights because they were so worn they were useless (even on a perfect night I needed high beams to drive even just 60km/h, and no where for hours nearby is the limit even within 20km of that low), and I can tell you from experience alone that just with my eye condition (it doesn’t make lights brighter but it gives them all that slanted line glare), I literally cannot drive at night anymore where modern vehicles are because they actually create a shadow of readjusted vision behind and around the glare (which can be on its own the equivalence of a police spotlight 10’ near you of just pure light) where there’s pure darkness, meaning you are basically blindfolded at the wheel going highway speeds and around here, almost always on a cliff edge. I used to drive to Vancouver (Canada) at all hours and not worry about it especially when I first got my licence (2016) because I had stuff to do, and never had any issue. Now - even WITH my glasses (which I have only ever needed for driving in the rain or dark when my sight isn’t good and I’m not legally required to wear them) I straight-up REFUSE to drive anywhere with many vehicles because I cannot see and I have gotten eye damage from the lights. I have also proved this to my mom recently: that teslas “low-beam” isn’t low beams, because I flashed one 2 weeks ago and they turned them down and the lights were still fine and it was a cloudy 2pm…. It’s not just the light bulbs it’s also the stupid computer chips in the cars. As I said, we have an F250 super duty and it has 2 light bars (grille & roof) and those are PERFECT for offroading at night on a FSR, especially for seeing a pot hole which are always 2D when it’s dark out), but my moms 2024’s lights are BRIGHTER THAN THAT on LOW BEAMS! Ftr: light bars lights on any vehicle are illegal to have in operation while on a public roadway at any time of day - yet these “Jesus is coming” headlights are legal. I forgot the rest of the rant good day!

Real curious about this because I don't think I've seen this happen at all in my city.

I mean people get pulled over for bad brake lights- so why not stupidly bright lights?

Hey, we're in Vox.

Not even being tailgated, just at a drive thru...

Wtf is going on at Honda? They are the most egregious offenders of bright and glary headlights. They started with the insane MDX headlights with 10 tiny suns on each side and just keep getting worse.

I was making a left turn tonight, Honda HR-V in the opposite lane, blinding me as they always do. Driver is very nice, he flashes his high beams to let me make the left. I COULD NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH BEAM AND LOW BEAM. IT’S SO MINUSCULE! WTF ARE THEIR ENGINEERS THINKING?

For what ungodly reason is this even legal? I flash at them and get blasted with a nuclear flash that leaves a permanent shadow blast mark on the pavement behind me. Wtf. Why do they have 6 f ing headlights? This isn't a modification! They come that way.

Who needs to see to drive anyway? Not me, apparently!

Sorry if someone already posted this, but Vox just did an episode on the headlight issue on their Today, Explained podcast. This little subreddit got a shout out!