A quarter of motorists in Britain are apprehensive about driving at night due to glare.
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00:00Yeah, I used to be a taxi driver for 20-odd years, but I had to give up recently because
00:07driving at night time has just become too unbearable, and I think the solution to it
00:14would be if modern cars had to have them of a certain limit, which you could possibly
00:23do through an MOT test, so anyone who's over the limit can easily adjust their headlights
00:30or whatever so that they fall within legal limits, but it'd have to be set, legal limits
00:38would have to be set to obviously sort this problem out.
00:42Many say modern LED headlights that are too bright are the biggest challenge faced by
00:48motorists today. In fact, 25% of all drivers are said to be driving less at night because
00:55of how bright modern car headlights are. In other studies, 3 in 4 motorists are regularly
01:03blinded by bright headlights. Dazzling headlights contributed to 216 collisions in 2023, with
01:11the home counties just outside London, specifically Kent and Surrey, being the worst affected.
01:19Of course, don't forget that in London, in part due to ULES and notably zero emission
01:25rules for taxis and Ubers, most of the vehicles you encounter on the roads of the capital
01:34will be on the newer side and therefore likely to be equipped with these bright LED headlights.
01:41I am one of the 25%. I've had several near-miss accidents because of these LED headlights,
01:49particularly they're up on four-wheel drives, they get right in your eye and they are dangerous.
01:54And I would vote, I would have them banned tomorrow if I could. And I'm not the only one.
02:00This is a topic of conversation with quite a few friends of mine. They're really dangerous.
02:06So ban them, now.
02:08Especially on wet roads where the glare from the lights reflects, it can be very dazzling.
02:17And I'm sure that would cause many accidents that would otherwise never happen, you know,
02:24if lights were not dazzling. And also I've noticed that yellow lights, which a lot of
02:34cars seem to have, are less dazzling than LED white lights. So if that's another possible
02:42solution.
02:43Yeah, I still do drive at night, but it's never very easy, I find, you know. And as
02:51I say, the simple solution would be to include it in an MOT test. And it's for the government
02:58to sort out.