I don't often drive after dark, but I have dinner with my kids every other week, and I'm not going to skip that. In winter it does mean I drive home in the dark. I have started to keep blue blocker clip ons in my car, and that helps a great deal. My company is having a "town hall" meeting next week at a hotel downtown. There will be dinner, and our time is paid. I am joining via the web and skipping the dinner. I'd love to go for the free dinner, however, I hate driving downtown at night, and it's a Tuesday night, I don't want to stay out that late and then get up early the next day to work. I still get paid for the time online to watch it.

That's a pet peeve of mine too -- I tend to drive a lot at dusk - so the headlights don't seem so bright - but once in a while it will be super dark and these people that drive with their "brights" on (or perhaps their trucks are equipped with brighter than necessary headlights) will come up behind me, as if to push me along. We don't have a lot of passing lanes on my island, so I will pull over and let them go by me. I guess if they are bullies, they are getting their way.

I briefly had a boyfriend who drove with his brights on ALL the time. This bothered me and I said so, but he gave some excuse that he felt it was safer and a convenience to those who might not see him coming. Um... no, it's not like we have fog, smoke or driving rain or snow in this area.

Thank you for this. It is not just from oncoming cars but often these monsters behind you. Coming off the ferry at night I often have to turn both side mirrors and the rear view mirror down. The only place on this island with street lights is the ferry terminal and at night it really, really gets dark here (I often have to slow way down to see my own street) so the bright lights make things even worse. Another thing are the fog lights that are also on even when there is no fog. I once got reprimanded in Germany for using the fog lights inappropriately. Of course many the bright lights prior to 2023 will still be on the road. It would be interesting if there were figures that pointed to the number of accidents/injuries/deaths due to uber bright lights. So much emphasis is placed on the drivers of vehicles and little on other drivers.

The glare from vehicle headlights can be almost blinding at times. I recall many years ago in the wintertime on my way home from work one night, I drove down a long narrow road with cars parked on both sides of the road. One night car drove towards me on the opposite oncoming lane with headlights on full beam and four dazzling spotlights on the front fender. Dazzled by the bright lights I slowed down to avoid colliding with parked cars on my left side. The following night it happened again about the same time. I flashed my headlights but to no avail. It continued night after night and for nearly two weeks I encountered the same car, lit up like the floodlights of a football stadium.

Funny how life puts a solution our way from time to time. One afternoon after I had paid for gas at a local filling station I noticed a box containing a five inch diameter spotlight. On the box was printed 1.5 million candlepower! I did not think twice about buying it and it was made to plug into a car cigarette lighter socket. Later that night on my home the same car with headlights and spotlights full on drove towards me. My new spotlight was already connected to the cigarette lighter socket and I had placed it on the dashboard for easy access. I flashed my headlights to warn the other driver, he ignored my warning. I reached for the spotlight and hit the power on button. It shone almost as solid as a laser beam and suddenly I heard the loud screeching of car tires. After that on my way home at nighttime I never encountered the car with dazzling headlights, I do not wonder why.

I don’t drive at night if at all possible. The headlights are just too bright for me.

They are counter productive to the other driver as well because the brighter bluer light causes more eyestrain and tiredness than the dimmer yellow.

The adaptive headlights have been available in Europe for years. It's our federal government that didn't allow them here.