Blinded by Headlights? Here’s what to do

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I am a retired Michigan State Trooper, and over the years I've developed a knack for driving at night. Lights never bothered me much. since the advent of the "blue" led headlights, I have found it much more difficult. Those things should be outlawed, of course, the reality is that they never will be. Much harder now to see at night. If it's raining, the LeD lights make the glare much worse.

For everyone saying to look at the white line - I rely on this when driving at night. The next problem is that oftentimes they're faded, or sometimes absent altogether. Rain especially obscures them.

I've been saying this for years now ! The lights are so bright now they blind people at night! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS VEDIO!

GLAD TO HEAR SOMEONE ELSE HAS NOTICED THIS. LIGHTS AT NIGHT KILL ME BLIND ME I HAVE PULLED OVER AND STOPPED AT TIMES TO RECOVER. HIGH TRUCKS ARE THE WORST.

One of the things that bothers me about the bluer lights is that people want them because they make the road brighter; but conversely, they make it harder to see anything OUTSIDE of the range of the headlights. They just destroy your nightvision SO MUCH that it seems really counterproductive when the primary use is for improving visibility in low lighting conditions.

I agree. Those LED headlights are blinding and shouldn't be legal. Several people I know have complained about them to me and I know my eyes don't recover from them as fast as the older headlights. Glad to hear you addressing this!

Your comments about yellow and blue lights are spot on. I avoid driving at night these days. Best wishes from England.

This made me feel better knowing it’s not just me! Im in my early 60’s but have been having trouble driving at night for many years, and especially when its not only dark, but rainy with the bright lights coming at me. It’s scary, because if it’s so dark, I can’t even pull over to stop because I don’t know if there’s a ditch off the shoulder (rural areas). Thank you so much for the tip on supplements, I never thought of that. Also, when there’s a truck behind me with bright headlights, I have to temporarily push my rear view mirror up so as not to be blinded.

As a truck driver, some more hints and tips for night driving. Clean the inside of the windscreen as well as the outside. And when someone has those bright head lights, look to the side of the road away from the lights, just keep them in your peripheral vision. Then when they pass back to center of the road, That blur is now on the side of the road not in center of your vision. Great video.

The best part of this video is finding out that I'm not the only one having problems with the LED and blue lights. While I'm not a fan of more government regulations, that may be the only way to get this fixed. Thank you!

I agree. These new super bright lights make driving at night much more challenging. They create a distortion and difficulty seeing for precious moments or more after they pass. And it doesn’t seem like they are “focused” towards the pavement instead of directly into the eyes of oncoming drivers

I just saw this video and I have been waiting for an eye doctor to say something about prohiting the bright white headlights. You make my day. Thamk you!

Thank you! I wish, as a Boomer, that the law would DISALLOW these new LED HEADLIGHTS.

The fact that YouTube audiences skew young, and I haven’t seen a comment yet that thought that the new types of lights are fine is REALLY TELLING. Same experience that I’ve had. I’m still young, but even I have trouble with them. Another problem is infrastructural: a lot of roads don’t have fresh, reflective paint, so the lines on the road are really dim when looking into these headlights, especially when it’s raining. It also probably doesn’t help that sedans are right in the line of fire with all these huge SUVs shining right in sedan owners’ eyes.

I'm pretty sure most(if not all) of those extremely bright bluish/white headlights are marked on their packages "For off road use only" or "Not for highway use"! And I have found that the yellow glasses work fairly well for me!

as a former over the road trucker, I did exactly opposite of brightening my dashboard lights. I would dim them to the max, it would allow my eyes to relax and be less stressful

First eye professional to legitimately explain the issues and understanding of the problems. Yes, ban those headlights. Got my follow!

i am so glad you are addressing the flourescent headlight problem. i wish someone would get rid of these lights. they are probably increasing accidents on the road blinding everyone.

Thank you so much! This is a problem I deal with (night driving vision) and I’m relieved to hear it’s not my imagination that newer cars have more focused headlights. I appreciate you!