Bright headlights and tinted car windows: How safe are you on the road? (Marketplace)

That was fun, thanks for inviting us on the show!

Nothing worst than a lifted truck with bright headlights tailgating you at night.

I honestly think bright lights are far more dangerous

I don’t mind the tinted windows. But the extreme bright LED headlights I can’t stand!

Those extremely bright LEDs coming at you when the pavement is wet. You’re in gods hands

Bright car lights are causing more issues with me than anything on the road

You didnt even touch about how people put HID bulbs in halogen reflector housings. Incomplete report.

While headlight alignment is very is important, I think a significant problem is also people installing aftermarket LED or HID bulbs in halogen reflector lenses.

Headlights need to be aimed, but they should have mentioned aftermarket HID and LED bulbs people stuff into older reflector housing that blind everyone on the road!

how many of us are just watching this because of the straight pipes?

Honestly the people with tinted windows haven’t been a problem in my experience, it’s the LED / Laser headlights. They must feel great to use, but being on the receiving end is difficult. My MINI still uses Halogens and sometimes I think my headlights aren’t bright enough because I’m being blinded by high-beam LED/Laser headlights. Don’t get me wrong Tinted windows can become a problem, but just like Yuri said, he rolls down his windows when he needs to back up— you can adapt to tinted windows. Being flashed by LED’s on the highway, not so much.

I'm here only for the straight pipes. I heard Yuri and Jakob's voices then cars sealed the deal

I am getting old now and the older I get the brighter glare the LED lights causing to me. The government should ban all the bright lights like this.

I hate those goddamn bright as lights that are so blinding you can't see anything. They also strain your eyes and cause headaches for some. Also where I live you can tint the back pretty much as dark as you want, but you can't tint the front windows past a certain level.

Why not talk about what the real danger on the road is? That’s right folks, I’m talking about soccer mom road rage and lifted trucks with their high beams on 24/7

"especially since half of fatalities happen at night" isn't that a useless statistic, the other half happens in the day

The tint thing is a non-issue... But those bright LED lights definitely are. The European, American, and Korean brands manage them very well. But Honda/Acura & Toyota/Lexus specifically are always losing points on their IIHS Safety Rated for very bad glare; their lights are way too bright and seem to be aimed way too high from the factory. and in real life those Japanese makes always 'seem' to have their high-beams on, even during the day. But occasionally there are vehicles with aftermarket LED bulbs installed with no filter and some of those lifted trucks, even though the lights are aimed properly, because they're higher up the light shoots straight into the car in front.

That's what even my dad taught me. Never look at the opposite cars headlight rather focus on the road.

It seems half the cars on the road have misaligned headlights.

15% ceramic tint all around and 30% full windshield for me. But I’m in South Florida.