LED headlights are the first thing that need to go in the bin this year. Surely it can't be safe for the majority of road users to have their retinas burnt to within a micrometre of all out blindness when simply checking their rear view mirror.
Then again, more and more cars seem to be having them and drivers of the infamous cars with LED headlights laugh at us mere peasants with our yellow low beam headlights. How much of the road do you really need to see? Before we know it some cars may start to add a floodlight that, at the press of a button, can rise up out of the roof of the car and begin illuminating entire neighbourhoods. Councils sure would save a lot of money on electricity as it would make street lighting redundant.... wait, I better not give them any ideas.
I was glad when I heard the government would be conducting a review into LED lights in cars, but like with most things governmental, I imagine the priority is quite low (until a mega party donor ends up in an LED light related tragedy) and will inevitably get bogged down under piles and piles of petty bureaucracy.
Maybe by the time I hit retirement age I will live to experience a world without LED-headlighted cars... if I'm not blinded by them in the meantime...
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