Canadian friends who drive: Transport Canada is soliciting feedback on ultra-bright vehicle headlights and headlight glare at night.

[danderson@hachyderm.io]

Canadian friends who drive: Transport Canada is soliciting feedback on ultra-bright vehicle headlights and headlight glare at night.

I encourage you to give them data on your experience, so that they might update the regulations to stop SUVs from routinely blinding me with their factory-fitted Nuclear Fireball 9000 LED Darkness Devastators Shock And Awe Edition headlights aimed directly into my face and eyes.

Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

Transport Canada (tc.canada.ca)

[kuniti_shino@pounced-on.me]

@danderson YES

[jonw@social.lol]

@danderson done!

[hearth@plush.city]

@danderson hopeful that this bleeds over to the US, too
-F

[catherinebabault@mastodon.social]

@danderson Done!

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@danderson The stupid thing is those are already illegal in any US state that wants federal highway funding since the 1950s, we just don't enforce laws on motorists since I was in grade 9.

[dancer_storm@mathstodon.xyz]

@danderson great that they're asking which I assume is the first step to fix it

but

did they really have to ask lol

[adelinej@piaille.fr]

@danderson People who don’t drive like me can fill the survey too.

[danderson@hachyderm.io]

@dancer_storm regulatory changes, especially those that might attract a vocal minority of angry motorists who want to dominate the road with their miniature sun, go more smoothly if the regulator has a paper trail as evidence that this is a problem and that there's widespread public support for action.

[dairpo@ottawa.place]

@danderson This is a survey I've been waiting for, and I made sure to include comments about how they're actually much worse for people outside of cars (walking, biking). I hate the new super bright lights with the heat of a thousand suns.