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Originally Posted by Deschodt
It's not just headlights.... the tail lights of the last few generations cars are like a thousand suns...
Prius in particular (mounted high) are super annoying for me to follow before 6AM when it's nice and dark... There ought to be a law on max power there.
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What you are seeing, is a result of regulation based on other sources.
There is a minimum requirement on power that must be met. The new LED's have smaller sources. To meet that power, the smaller sources must be brighter. This means equal power of light appears brighter to your eye as its coming from smaller points. The same power is getting focused tighter, and from smaller pin points.
It needs a new way of regulation from incandescent, and I expect institutes will get on it.
I definitely put the ones with taillights/brakelights that annoy my eyes behind me ASAP.
So what is causing the issue is not a lack of regulation on max power, but rather a regulation on minimum power. Instead of regulating power, it should be looking at peak intensity.