Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

Re:Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright by aceazzameen on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:59PM (#45969748)

Haha I've also angled my side mirror out of my eyes, which incidentally is back towards the car behind me. I of course angle it back if I need to change lanes, but it's such an annoying thing I have to do just to see the road ahead of me.

At this point I put full blame on car manufacturers and lack of government regulation and enforcement. Lights will keep getting brighter because lights are getting brighter. It's a death spiral.

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Re:Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright by johnmaguire on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:26PM (#45971572)

My 2017 Ford Fusion has an auto-dimming driver side mirror. I hate driving a car at night without this.

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Re:Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright by aceazzameen on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:48PM (#45975654)

My rear view mirror does this, I wish my side mirrors did too. Although recently I've noticed some cars headlights can even pierce my rear view mirror's polarized dimming. It never used to be a problem in the past. I've seen the difference when drivers turn their high beams on and off. It always did a great job against driver's brights including large trucks. But occasionally there's now a vehicle with the light of a thousand suns that is too bright for the auto-dimming.

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Re:Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright by bergfest on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:08AM (#45976664)

The older manual rear view mirrors worked much better in my opinion.

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