Headlights problems of the 2003 BMW 318

I was blinded tonight by the high intensity discharge headlights on a car 100 or more feet from me that was coming out of a gas station. I was in a parking lot across the highway from the gas station and becuase o being blinded I didn't see a road divider. My right front wheel hit it a a low speed and blew the tire and bent the rim. Obviously the other driver didn't know I existed or had been financially and emotionally impacted by his headlights but it is just a matter of time when some unexplained fatal accident will have the same roots. Thank you, dan sternberg.

I am a professional driver with over 1 mil acident free miles. Every year the headlights get aimed worse, the technology gets brighter and sometimes wider dispersion (blinding) and more drivers drive fulltime with fog lights (non-lenticular lens). Manufacturers are encouraging this process with the manufacture of autos with big fog lights and failing to label them with restrictive use warnings. In addition, their advertising always shows vehicles with these lights on in their advertisments. Because of the severity I am forced to block out their lights (at the rate of about one in twenty-five) with my hand, and therefore will have no opportunity to avoid an accident if they cross the center line since I cannot see them. Police in every state must be told to enforce existing laws against full-time fog lights and must regulate the brightness and aim of headlights. The problem has become epidemic.