Reddit topic on annoyingly bright headlights

I know the lights I have are much brighter than the stock halogen bulbs. I love how well I can see. No one has flashed me (yet), so maybe the aren't that bad. But I would hate to be "that guy" who mindlessly blinds everyone.

The cutoff for my low beans seem to be just fine, though. Stopped behind someone at a red light (typical distance of a few feet) the cutoff is at the bumper. Cruising down the road it's MAYBE mid-trunk (the back vertical side, no the top). One thing I remember hearing to look for is am I lighting up the passenger area and that is a solid "no." I haven't seen anyone flip their rear view mirror, either.

I feel like a lot of people don't take into consideration the angle of the roads they're driving on when they get blinded. The only times I really get blinded by other cars' headlights are when we're driving and the roads have a curve to them. At least there's a lot of that here in San Francisco. It seems to be too much but that's only because their cutoff line is above your mirrors. Other than that I think MOST cars are fine, even Civics or Accords with LED headlights. Albeit I still think they should be LED projector headlights as that reduces the glare.

Call me crazy but if "All these new Hondas" are blinding you and very few other people are complaining about it then maybe you're due in all seriousness to have your eyes checked for problems, this could very well be a symptom. In my 30+ years of driving the only time I had seen quite a few cars with excessive headlight glare was in the 90's when HIDs were a big fad (pink, green, blue, purple, lol). The only time in the past ~20 years I've had a problem is when someone obviously has their high beams on. Keep your windshield clean on the inside and out (same with your corrective eye wear if applicable), the glare reduction is significant. In my circles in person and online I very rarely hear of this issue anymore.

Worst case, take some advice from Corey Hart

The poster is right, the LED headlights on some Hondas are indeed blinding to other drivers. It's not that the aiming is too high, it's that they put out a ton of light above the cutoff. The 2016-2018 Honda Civic LED headlights put out significant amounts of glare. The 2019 model when released put out nearly 5x the maximum amount of light above the cutoff. They made an improvement mid-year to reduce this down to only being 2.5x the max... but that's still pretty significant if you ask me.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/honda/civic-2-door-coupe/2019#headlights

Acura LEDs don't have this problem, and neither does the CR-V, so it's not that Honda can't build LED headlights that don't blind others. The non-LED headlight assemblies in Civics do not have this problem. They also perform poorly according to the IIHS, but not by blinding everybody else on the road.

I’m wondering about the PNP bulbs in the projector housings. I reckon I won’t worry about it unless I start getting flashed all the time.

The problem often arises when car owner fit different type bulbs, that the headlight assembly was not designed to take, and then the result is that the beams cannot be controlled correctly to give the correct cut-off.

Just because the replacement (different type) bulb has the same socket type, and can be mounted, does not generally mean that it will focus correctly.

And the idiot local to me that drives around in his OFF-ROAD vehicle, with massive Light LED beams on it's roof, running it full blast at night on the road, should have his license suspended !! (or worse)

In a recent survey, 88% of about 2,000 participants said they believed most newer cars with LEDs/HID/Xenon (going to throw in that it would probably be any year car with these lights) are too bright. Yes, anyone who has them never has issues seeing the road and it must be wonderful...but you’re also making a hazard for others on the road. I regularly clean windows, have 20/20 vision, and only 25....and I flash almost everyone who causes me to see nothing but they’re lights. I think it’s rather selfish but everyone’s free to do whatever they like

The CivicX LED lights have annoying levels of glare for other drivers; I get high-beamed regularly on rural highways, even from 18-wheelers. I actually thought of downgrading to the Halogens, but then I drove a loaner LX sedan, and those headlights are awful. The LED's are at their worst in snow and freezing rain; besides the glare coming back at you due to lack of cutoff, the LED's don't generate enough heat to melt snow/ice so you lose illumination distance pretty quickly. I miss the self-leveling HID's in my old VW.

I don't see the problem much for cars, but newer trucks and suv's. And now newer semi trucks, specially driving close behind me. I do wear my Corey Harts at night just when the problem arises.

The brightest..... Ford Explorer