May 16, 2024 – Texas Public Radio publishes a podcast on the impacts of LED headlights on Jamie Troese in Pennsylvania, describing how LED headlights have essentially imprisoned her in her home.
May 15, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation submitted a federal regulatory petition to NHTSA to set limits on Correlated Color Temperature for vehicle headlamps and daytime running lights.
May, 2024 – LED Applications Require Exposure Limits to Safeguard Consumers – Opinion article in Photonics Spectra mentions Mark Baker.
May 12, 2024 – Car and Driver magazine publishes an article about super-bright LED headlights that are frying our corneas.
May 10, 2024 – Mark Baker is a guest on the The Power Couple podcast and discusses LEDs and their impacts.
May 8, 2024 – The UK Parliament debates headlight glare. Transcript. Video.
May 7, 2024 – NBC News, Fort Meyers, Florida, aired a video on excessively bright LED headlights.
May 6, 2024 – Mark Baker filed a discrimination lawsuit against Coldwell Banker Real Estate, LLC and Petrovich Development Company, LLC for discrimination. Defendants declined to make a good faith effort to turn off an intense LED light, thus denying Plaintiff full and equal access to the shopping center.
May 4, 2024 – The San Francisco Standard reports that the Founder of Illuminate has claimed that their plan to add 50,000 LED lights to the San Francisco Bay Bridge is now funded. Adding tens of thousands of LED lights to the SF Bay Bridge will have a massive adverse impact on human and ecosystem health, and will create a discriminatory barrier for individuals with neurological disabilities. The Soft Lights Foundation has notified numerous decision makers at CalTrans, Bay Area Toll Authority Oversight Committee, Illuminate, and others that this project requires a CEQA analysis, NEPA analysis, and ADA Accommodation Plan.
May 3, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation assisted an individual with a light trespass nuisance issue by sending a letter to the Sammamish, Washington city council. Councilmember Amy Lam responded and contacted Code Enforcement. A case was opened, and Code Enforcement made a visit to the resident and asked them to solve the light trespass issue. The resident agreed to remove the offending light.
May 1, 2024 – The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile submitted a file to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on headlight glare as the following two documents:
GRE-90-20 – (FIA) Glare on Road Traffic: European consumer study 2024
GRE-90-40 – (FIA) European survey on glare in road traffic
Below are some stats from the report:
- 80 % of the respondents find the glare intolerable or annoying
- 50 % almost always or regularly feel dazzled
- 52 % of respondents pinch their eyes shut or even close them briefly
- 64 % have problems perceiving objects in the vicinity of the dazzling light source
- 25 % stated that they continued to see an image of the light source for a limited time after passing it (afterimage), or even felt pain
April 30, 2024 – Donald Berry started the change.org petition to ban blinding headlights in 2016. Today, Mr. Berry made a presentation to staff for US Representative Judy Chu in which he describes the impacts of LED lights and requests action from Congress.
April 27, 2024 – Resident Wins LED Street Light Court Case Against Council – Barnet, UK resident Sasha Rodoy settled a 4 year legal case with Barnet. The town agreed to switch the 4000K LED streetlights to 2200K. In this video, David Kurten, the host of this UK TNT Radio show, discusses the Sasha Rodoy lawsuit and blasts LED streetlights. If 4000K LED streetlights provide better safety and visual acuity, then why would Barnet agree to switch to 2200K? The obvious answer is that 4000K LED streetlights are unsafe and never should have been installed in the first place.
April 19, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation submitted a 19-page report to Henderson, Nevada on the hazards and discriminatory nature of LED street lights.
April 18, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation submitted 202 pages of comments from the Ban Blinding Headlights petition to the office of US Representative Mike Thompson to deliver to DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
March 29, 2024 – America’s Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just too Bright – This story in the Wall Street Journal dispels some of the myths about LED headlights propagated by the government and industry.
March 20, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation received a letter from NHTSA stating that they have received our petition to set an overall limit on lower beam headlight intensity.
March 1, 2024 – The Soft Lights Foundation submitted a federal regulatory petition to NHTSA to set an overall limit on lower beam headlight intensity.
January 22, 2024 – Mark Baker filed a lawsuit against the FDA for failing to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act and for violating citizen’s 5th amendment rights.