I'm not sure that's enough. Newer SUV cars have headlights which are stronger and bluer already coming out of the assembly line.

When I have a SUV behind my regular utilitarian, I'm fully blinded. The higher headlights reflect directly both into the rear and side mirrors.

The strength is also overshadowing my own headlights (I see the shadow of my car in front of me).

When a new car is going in the opposite direction, I'm never fully sure if the driver just forgot the high-headlights or not.

If you have an interior rear-view mirror, your side mirrors should be pointed at the lanes next to you, not behind you. Not only does this reduce blindspots, but also overly bright headlights reflecting. When a car passes you from behind, you should see it move from the rear to the side mirrors without moving your head.

Of course, if you drive a truck or are towing a trailer, that's a different story.

> your side mirrors should be pointed at the lanes next to you

Ironically, this gets harder and harder in some newer cars. My driver's side mirror reaches its limit precisely as my car (a 2018 Outback) side disappears from the view. It's unfortunate how much flexibility we've lost with these mirrors.

As a civic driver I notice this a lot.

One tip which you probably know already but not everyone does: you can darken your rear view mirror by flipping the tab on the bottom. Unfortunately no equivalent for your side mirrors.

The darkening is sufficient for regular cars, but it's almost useless when the headlight of the SUV behind you is at the driver's level :(

I bought my car used a while ago, and it's now ~10 years old. I find the stock headlights to be perfectly adequate to drive in rural areas (and I live/drive regularly rural streets without street lights).

The difference with newer cars though is _staggering_. It's not only SUVs.

Auto-dimming side-view mirrors now exist (as a package with an auto-dimming main mirror for Subaru at least).

I have these on my Volvo. They are great for avoiding bright headlights from behind but they make it virtually impossible to see a bike that may be approaching in the bike lane. Anything with headlights that aren't super bright becomes dim or virtually invisible.

That's rather difficult if you're blinded by the headlights.

Luminosity has dethroned "xenon" as the most abused word in automotive lighting parlance.

Luminosity is a term best left for astronomers and not people who deal with automotive lighting.

Luminosity has units of Joules/second and is the measure of all the electromagnetic radiation emitted by something. This is obviously more relevant to something like, the Sun, which emits significant amounts of not only IR radiation but also visible light and UV radiation.

Luminosity has 0 relevance to automotive lighting because last time I checked, the human eye is unable to perceive IR radiation. We don't drive at night with the aid of IR radiation.

Unfortunately, this simple fact has been lost on the people who attempt to sound smart when pushing their latest and greatest illegal HIDs/LEDs and projector retrofit kits.

Maybe if you're in Germany.

But in the US, you'd be wasting your time, if not making a joke out of yourself.

That abbreviation caused me to pause.

No thank you. Any society that has automated systems putting people's names on the cops "find and bother" this over petty civil infractions is not a society I want to live in.

Bright headlights are a problem that's so far below all sorts of misdemeanors with victims that routinely go un-investigated that I don't understand how someone can suggest with a straight face that they deserve that level of law enforcement resources. If you don't want to see a particular product exist then go after the sources.

Edit: I guess you probably meant "manually report" rather than "build a system that automatically reports" which is far more reasonable. For anyone who thinks we should be automating this sort of thing the above response stands though.

Blinding other drivers creating a hazardous situation is petty?

It's a lot pettier than the rampant petty theft that gets ignored in many major urban areas.

Petty theft does not put lives at risk.

I cannot imagine how anyone with minimal understanding how the world workd could suggest that is a "petty" concern.

That’s irrelevant to this discussion.

Data points illustrating how society handles actual criminal infractions with victims are very much relevant in the context of a suggestion that we pull out all the stops to prosecute any particular civil infraction that has no immediate victims.

The suggestion is that you report it, as a safety issue, not that you then go on to demand justice for this not-exactly-heinous non-crime. The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on.

("Oh god. This guy sounds just like... oh. It is dsfyu404ed." - me, often enough to have noticed this is a thing, reading the comments here on articles about cars.)

>The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on.

Right, that's exactly the response we don't even give to all sorts of crime with a victim unless the victim is very pushy about getting a police report filed. If we're not going to at least make some token effort to enforce petty theft and vandalism laws then I see no value to society of making a point of giving that level of enforcement to even lesser crimes.