Modern Car Lights - Far too bright

I agree, some of the lights are way to bright.

What's even worse is numpties driving around with their spot/fog lights on as well (nothing lets the world know just how cool you are like having your fog lights on for no reason what so ever) or DIY eejits who make a dog's dinner and put the bulb in arse ways when changing it, its like having one full beam on constantly.

It's license Code 61, not clause seems you don't know either.

Also seems your saying people have vision problems when blinded by poorly implemented manufacturers HID , no **** they'd get blinded by a lash of LED right into your face on a dark road. They're meant to be lighting the road not another driver.

That people should all get banned from night driving because a bunch of manufacturers are blinding them with extremely poor LED lighting fitted to new vehicles ?

Seems a bit of a stupid argument on the face of it, I'm Intrigued.

For me, the overly bright headlights are compounded by the new/modern LED streetlights. The older street lighting (while less efficient/environmentally friendly) had a far better ambient spread of light, illuminating not only the road but also the path/kerbs etc. The modern LED lights, being much more akin to directional spotlights, to my eye have absolutely terrible 'light spread', and I really struggle to see potential dangers on and off the road with them (eg, driving in the dark there's even a glare off traffic lights, and it's a struggle to even see if there's people standing at the traffic light as you approach it/go through it.) I accept the older sodium based lighting had to go for environmental reasons, but these white/blue LED based lights are beyond awful in terms of visibility and safety (for me anyway, others will disagree.) Then when they start going faulty, you get entire estates that look like the Blue Lagoon.

Annoyingly, there are warmer kelvin temperature LED lights available for street lighting which we didn't invest in (I imagine they cost more.)

It's about as ludicrous as the other way round.

The truth probably lies in the middle.

For work I drive MB and BMW, and both of those seem to have also got it right.

People don't flash us so clearly they're not being blinded.

I did think LED lights were illegal but I must have been wrong

It's probably an individual/eyesight thing but for me I always found a dark urban street in the rain to be a lot harder to navigate with the older orange lights or as I say, if you're in an unfamiliar area in that bad weather with poor/worn road markings.

The LEDs light everything up within their range and I see all those things you mention much easier and quicker.

What I DO disagree with though is the idiocy in recent years of turning off lights at motorway junctions - fine if you know the junction but given that every one is different (differing lengths of slip roads etc) it's just more dangerous IMO. Supposedly it's to prevent drivers eyes having to adjust ... in reality I suspect it's a bean-counting exercise somewhere.