Road safety organisations and Government departments like Vosa the DfT Public Carriage Office and Police Have all sadly missed the trick.
Brighter HID lights and LED seem to be their answer. “Oh my God” let us “Dazzle” and “Blind” the other drivers into submission like our Emergency vehicles.
Medical experts like Professor Peter Heilig at the University of Vienna Austria who has written much on being dazzled and blinded by Daytime Running Lights. Doctor Leuenburger of the Asian Eye Institute in the Philippines feels banning xenon’s altogether would be the answer to stop the Malevolence that emanates from these dazzling blinding lights. Who trained at the Massachusetts Eye Infirmary where Professor Mario Motta has a wealth of information on wickipedia and also wrote for the Massachusetts Medical Society?
Well thought of motoring correspondents like Honest John who is currently a regular in the Daily Telegraph has had forums talking about the xenon blinding problems and has mentioned me a number of times. Rory Lumsdon wrote a scathing attack on Audi lights in Autotocar.
USA Today another huge daily covered the dangers of Xenon’s.
I have had articles in Advanced driver and Instructor Magazines outlining the dangers of brighter is generally more dangerous to others even though possibly a benefit to the driver.
The benefit to the driver only comes into being if there is no other traffic on the road. How often is that I ask? The answer is rarely.
Governments and Manufacturers need to take note that I will not rest until the blinding dazzling problem is addressed properly and changes are made for a fairer system to suit the majority of drivers.
7 out of 10 drivers that are on the roads at night have problems with these bright lights.
Many drivers like Travelling Salesman find DRL’s a problem at dusk.
If you have been dazzled or blinded please get in touch as only direct action in numbers will make that difference.
Saturday 31 July 2010
Friday 23 July 2010
The Mother of all Blogs including Bi-Xenon & Halogen
Sometimes I wonder do drivers care about others or are we all inherently selfish. We all have to share the roads whether for work or pleasure. It has been some time that I have been researching the miss use of headlight and fog lights. The RVLR 1989 at present allows the newish Bi-xenon a MOT Pass when clearly they dazzle others most of the time with few exceptions. From my research I believe all Manufacturers and Dealerships will have had customers take back their new car because other.
It does not seem to matter which maker AUDI BMW CITROEN DAEWOO FIAT FORD HONDA and JAGUAR LAND ROVER seem to have more models than most that could be causing death by inconsiderate use of that old RVLR 1989 as it is older than the Bi-xenon lights [12 years approx] that has crept into our vehicles as a USP giving the driver who has them the upper hand to those that do not have them. The inconsiderate use of these lights could be causing deaths that are being unnoticed because they appear to be brilliant when you are driving with them. It is because they are so good to drive with it seems inconceivable that they are a danger to others but I assure you the most certainly are!
My question is to those who read this blog. Does anyone else find car lights in general day or night are getting too bright? HID on almost every vehicles seems to dazzle and blind you at night and LED’s have gone to mega status with AUDI leading the way in attempting to dazzle and blind us to our deaths.
Bi-xenon’s and Halogen lights today are made for brilliant lighting on country lanes but the drivers with them are intimidating drivers and not surrendering their powerful light leaving other motorists floundering and cursing because the xenon driver did not retract his or her greater presence of powerful luminosity that would make it impossible for even the best 20x20 drivers eyes.
Do we really need Daytime Running Lights that are so bright that they can blind and dazzle you in the Daytime? Are any of the engineers designing these lights to produce lights so fierce they actually fry or cook your eyes so badly you feel like smashing them or possibly the twat of a driver that is endangering himself if he is putting you in danger?
Motorcycles we know are the most dangerous form of transport and although there are some really good ones they are in a minority as it is a pastime of the young and the adrenalin junkie that likes the revving engine noise and speed that defies any sense of safety for themselves or others. Because the accident rate of these drivers is so high safety organisations and manufacturers are convincing these driver riders that brighter lights on there two wheel death traps will be their saviour. Sadly I think RosPa and the IAM and others do have this one so wrong because the headlights on these two wheeled killing machines if in the wrong hands are actually now one eyed monsters that intimidate the opposing drivers to slow down. This appears to make it safer for some but what of those that dazzled the opposing driver and led to an accident that left only a dead or comatosed body and possibly then did not get reported as an accident caused by the other driver being dazzled or blinded for long enough to be fatal.
All in all having searched the web extensively there are many motorist forums that have talked about the dangers of Bi-xenon and dazzling blinding headlights. I personally have been on the BBC One Show BBC 5 Live Radio 4 Radio3 Wales Scotland Three Counties Southern Counties Radio now Surrey LBC Talksport Southside Broadcasting.
The Daily Telegraph has mentioned me via Honest John a Motoring corespondant that cares about safety. The Surrey Mirror my local paper Cab Driver Magazine via the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association and Taxitalk Nationwide. The Advanced Drivers Magazine Driving and Driving Instructor. A special edition of ADI News December 2009 and much more
Australia New Zealand Malaysia Singapore the Philippines Africa Most of Europe Argentina Brazil United States of America Canada and dare I forget India plus China where many of these dangerous bright dazzling blinding lights are made. More countries than I can list have forums covering this very issue including these above.
Very special thanks to all those who voted on my Parliamentary e petition that sadly got closed due to the downfall of Labour and our new Coalition Government.
Links of interest
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2001-06-07-xenon.htm
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=12500
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=2633
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070326/news_1n26lights.html
http://forums.vr-zone.com/vrrroomm-vrrroomm/147892-lta-taking-steps-snuff-out-blinding-headlights-hid.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Dazzling-headlights-Trendy-but-dangerous/articleshow/280827900.cms
http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/designlanguage/archive/2007/10/17/led-running-lights-no-thanks.aspx
http://www.autocar.co.uk/forums/t/14042.aspx
http://blogs.motortrend.com/6307569/technology/blinded-by-the-light-comparing-new-led-headlamps-with-hid-xenon-halogen/index.html
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&f=10&t=748630&mid=0&i=20&nmt=Aftermarket%20HIDs,%20%20Legal%20or%20not%20?&mid=0
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gAssing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=814743&mid=0&i=80&nmt=Front%20fog%20abusers%20-%20is%20it%20beyond%20hope%20now?&mid=0
http://thoughtsinflight.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/index.html
Epilogue
In my opinion this content confirms something must be done to make our roads safe at night and reduce dazzle and blinding lights.
It does not seem to matter which maker AUDI BMW CITROEN DAEWOO FIAT FORD HONDA and JAGUAR LAND ROVER seem to have more models than most that could be causing death by inconsiderate use of that old RVLR 1989 as it is older than the Bi-xenon lights [12 years approx] that has crept into our vehicles as a USP giving the driver who has them the upper hand to those that do not have them. The inconsiderate use of these lights could be causing deaths that are being unnoticed because they appear to be brilliant when you are driving with them. It is because they are so good to drive with it seems inconceivable that they are a danger to others but I assure you the most certainly are!
My question is to those who read this blog. Does anyone else find car lights in general day or night are getting too bright? HID on almost every vehicles seems to dazzle and blind you at night and LED’s have gone to mega status with AUDI leading the way in attempting to dazzle and blind us to our deaths.
Bi-xenon’s and Halogen lights today are made for brilliant lighting on country lanes but the drivers with them are intimidating drivers and not surrendering their powerful light leaving other motorists floundering and cursing because the xenon driver did not retract his or her greater presence of powerful luminosity that would make it impossible for even the best 20x20 drivers eyes.
Do we really need Daytime Running Lights that are so bright that they can blind and dazzle you in the Daytime? Are any of the engineers designing these lights to produce lights so fierce they actually fry or cook your eyes so badly you feel like smashing them or possibly the twat of a driver that is endangering himself if he is putting you in danger?
Motorcycles we know are the most dangerous form of transport and although there are some really good ones they are in a minority as it is a pastime of the young and the adrenalin junkie that likes the revving engine noise and speed that defies any sense of safety for themselves or others. Because the accident rate of these drivers is so high safety organisations and manufacturers are convincing these driver riders that brighter lights on there two wheel death traps will be their saviour. Sadly I think RosPa and the IAM and others do have this one so wrong because the headlights on these two wheeled killing machines if in the wrong hands are actually now one eyed monsters that intimidate the opposing drivers to slow down. This appears to make it safer for some but what of those that dazzled the opposing driver and led to an accident that left only a dead or comatosed body and possibly then did not get reported as an accident caused by the other driver being dazzled or blinded for long enough to be fatal.
All in all having searched the web extensively there are many motorist forums that have talked about the dangers of Bi-xenon and dazzling blinding headlights. I personally have been on the BBC One Show BBC 5 Live Radio 4 Radio3 Wales Scotland Three Counties Southern Counties Radio now Surrey LBC Talksport Southside Broadcasting.
The Daily Telegraph has mentioned me via Honest John a Motoring corespondant that cares about safety. The Surrey Mirror my local paper Cab Driver Magazine via the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association and Taxitalk Nationwide. The Advanced Drivers Magazine Driving and Driving Instructor. A special edition of ADI News December 2009 and much more
Australia New Zealand Malaysia Singapore the Philippines Africa Most of Europe Argentina Brazil United States of America Canada and dare I forget India plus China where many of these dangerous bright dazzling blinding lights are made. More countries than I can list have forums covering this very issue including these above.
Very special thanks to all those who voted on my Parliamentary e petition that sadly got closed due to the downfall of Labour and our new Coalition Government.
Links of interest
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2001-06-07-xenon.htm
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=12500
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=2633
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070326/news_1n26lights.html
http://forums.vr-zone.com/vrrroomm-vrrroomm/147892-lta-taking-steps-snuff-out-blinding-headlights-hid.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Dazzling-headlights-Trendy-but-dangerous/articleshow/280827900.cms
http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/designlanguage/archive/2007/10/17/led-running-lights-no-thanks.aspx
http://www.autocar.co.uk/forums/t/14042.aspx
http://blogs.motortrend.com/6307569/technology/blinded-by-the-light-comparing-new-led-headlamps-with-hid-xenon-halogen/index.html
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&f=10&t=748630&mid=0&i=20&nmt=Aftermarket%20HIDs,%20%20Legal%20or%20not%20?&mid=0
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gAssing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=814743&mid=0&i=80&nmt=Front%20fog%20abusers%20-%20is%20it%20beyond%20hope%20now?&mid=0
http://thoughtsinflight.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/index.html
Epilogue
In my opinion this content confirms something must be done to make our roads safe at night and reduce dazzle and blinding lights.
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