LED Incident Reports
December 3, 2024 – Chattanooga, TN – None
I do not have any health or vision problems. I am a perfectly healthy mid 20 year old, and have always had a passion for night driving.
I never really noticed major issues with night driving up until recently… the past few years. I’ve always noticed people with super bright blue-white headlights… typically just squinted and moved on.
Unfortunately, the majority of the cars on the road have these headlights. I was returning from Thanksgiving with my family and had a 7 hour drive home. There are no north/south interstates in this area, so a lot of my driving is on 2 lane and 4 lane state roads and US highways. I was on a very narrow and typically low traffic 2 lane in southwest GA heading back north. For the first time I had to slow down to about 20 miles per hour because I was completely blinded. I could not see the center line. I could not see the edge of the road. For about 20 seconds all I could see what white light.
This is not an eye problem. I had my eyes examined a few months ago. This is not a specific to me issue either, as I have no ailments and am in good health. This happened to your normal young American driving home from the holidays, and hoping to get home safely without being flash banged off the road.
I know SUV’s and trucks are the most popular vehicles now, but I have always driven coupes, and lots of people drive those and sedans as well. We are not the minority. Please look into regulating these headlights. These are not “improperly aligned” these are straight from the factory and they seem to get worse every year.
December 1, 2024 – Greenbrae, CA – Other
The County I live in took away the shrubs in the median and now all I see are in coming bright headlights. I get a headache when I drive at nighy and makes me feel stuck at home at night. I get an immediate headache and feel like I’m going to crash my car.
They also installed rows and rows of LED overhead lights and they flood into my backyard and shine brightly into my bedroom and living room. Marin County did this and someone needs someone to do something about correcting this for the sake of our health. Thank you.
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The US Department of Energy describes LEDs as radically new technology with a directional light and unique characteristics. It is these features that make LED light so harmful. Traditional light sources radiate the light outward. LEDs focus the light into a beam. Because LEDs emit a directional beam of focused light, the light does not disperse gently over distance, so even from far away, LED light is extremely intense. LED light is exceedingly dense in the middle of the beam, but the density is near zero at the edges. The unique characteristics of LED light include the directional beam, non-uniform spatial distribution, unnatural spectral power distribution, square wave flicker, and digital flashing. Each individual and creature reacts differently to the different characteristics. There are little or no government regulations for any of this.