Headlights Problems of 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.

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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.

Low heam head lights do not provide enough illumination.

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I am blinded by these new headlamps when driving at night. They are very irritating even during daylight driving. It's like looking at an electric welding arc. They contain too much uv light. Uv light is very harmfull. How can these possibly be legal? I almost hit a pedestrian one night when I was blinded by a vehicle equipped with these lights. I'm affraid to drive at night now. How can I find the vehicle that blinded me if I hit someone? this situation needs to be fixed. If someone blinds me like that and a pedestrian is struck I have no way to identify the vehicle with the bright lights. They can cause accidents and not even realize it. These lights should be outlawed. I can get a summons for riding with my brights on. The bright blue headlamps are brighter than my highbeams. On some SUV's they shine right into my back window and illuminate the inside of my car so brightly that I can't see anything outside. When I was a teenager they had little violet lenses that went into the tail lamps. They were and probably still are illegal because they are irritating to the eyes. I don't see how the ultra bright headlamps can possibly be legal because they emit so much uv light. Someone must have received a real big payoff to legalize these. Try watching someone arc weld for a while and tell me that uv isn't harmfull! yours, blinded.

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