Headlight height regulations and lumen limits. If a transport truck can have reasonably placed head lights, so can the f250.
There is a quick fix, sealed beams.
There was a time when all cars in the US had round headlights. That’s because there was only one headlight and all cars were mandated by law to use it. That law can be reimplemented at any time. It would fix the headlights as soon as it goes into effect.
Car makers would hate it. It would ruin a lot of their styling and marketing having to use the one and only headlight. Which would make it an effective deterrant. Any major government using sealed beam laws as a threat would make the industry self regulate quickly.
I support a return to round sealed beam headlights. Especially if we can have pop-ups again.
Pop ups are dangerous for pedestrians.
So are big ass pickups with grilles that are over 5ft high
wait, why?
It would fix the headlights as soon as it goes into effect.
All headlights would magically change? Even the millions installed in cars already? Wow, that’s a powerful legislation.
90% they have every light on people don’t take the time to figure out their cars so drive about with fogs on full blast 24/7
This! People who don’t spend 5min to figure out their lights and just leave them on auto.
Alternative response: retroreflective mirror
I keep a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat, it’s been quite useful
unfortunately you’d need a quite large surface for it to be effective
Ok, here’s how you fix it:
- Calculate how many headlights need changing and how much it will cost
- Create a fund for that amount.
- Announce that in a 1.5 years headlight regulation changes and all cars need to adapt.
- During annual checks verify the lights. If they don’t comply with the regulation send driver to regulate/change them for free (covered by fund established in 2)
- After 1.5 years do random checks. Each car that still doesn’t comply gets towed. The owner can either pay for the tow and fixing the lights and can’t recover their car.
Just saying there are new requirements would be unfair to poor people that bought a car before the new regulation. They would have to spend extra money now to fix something they are not responsible for.
Saying that car manufacturers have to fix all their cars would be unfair because they were selling car that complied with all regulations. This would not stand in court.
That’s why there’s no quick fix. Doing it fairly will be complicated and it will cost money. It’s easier for politicians to ignore the issue.
during annual checks
Most of north america doesn’t do that. Some place require a safety check to initiate insurance, after that most just wait for things to break or get pulled over by a cop/ministry of transportation.
Im also a little iffy about #2. We already subsidize drivers enough, making them pay for their lights or at least partly pay sounds reasonable.
I think a middle ground solution would be add the regulations for new cars and enforce the regulation when a noncompliant car changes owners. This way buyers of used cars should be able to research if that cost is likely to impact their model or not. It doesn’t take all the headlights off the road at once but it starts phasing out the problematic cars.
Most of north america doesn’t do that.
Clearly, a solution for civilized countries :)
But I agree, you can either pay and get the problem solved faster or pass the cost to drivers and wait a decade or more to phase out problematic cars.
I bring up north america mostly because it has the most egregious offenders with high hooded SUVs and trucks.
Yes but US regulates so few things they will obviously not even try to solve this issue. With current administration it’s even less likely.
idk man a hammer to the headlight seems like a pretty quick fix to me
In my daydreams that sounds like a great idea. In reality I think the law would probably close in on me for doing that.
between flock and doorbell cams, you’d certainly need to take precautions carefully
hopefully someday soon we reach a critical mass where the average person realizes how fucking shit and assholey these LED headlights are
I was disappointed by the scene in ‘fight club’ where they hit the modern vw beetle with baseball bats.
They did virtually no damage.Make sure you use a big pointy hammer.
Interesting stats, if caveated
Collisions dropped suddently in 2020. What could have possibly caused it???
Everyone had 20/20 vision that year, duh.
Seriously?
I do not think they are being serious. The triple ? is a dead giveaway.
Look at least they didn’t blame congestion tax
