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uh, no. the only solution is instituting an appropriate maximum level of output
height only matters on flat smooth roads
The law actually specifies a maximum wattage, which back before all the new technology like LEDs and Xenons actually did limit the brightness... But the laws haven't been keeping up with technology for quite a while...
There is actually no law in Ontario, nor a federal law for headlight brightness, but even if there was, police would not enforce it.
I was referring to trucks and SUVs that are so tall they blind the cars in front of them even if they are pointed appropriately. Their headlights are at the eye level of other drivers in normal cars.
Output level is another matter that also needs attention
I mean by definition they are not pointed appropriately if they're blinding other people in regular conditions
but I get what you're saying
Neither of these are, in fact, the only solution.
We could, for example, have heights that identify other cars in the road and selectively dim the area around those cars.
We could have headlights that keep light below a certain level accounting for both the attitude of the car and the oncoming terrain.
Really how it is achieved doesn't matter, the regulation should just say that, within some cone in front of the vehicle, light levels must be limited to below x for the window areas around any other vehicles.
congrats on forgetting that non-drivers coexist with these vehicles
Congratulations on forgetting the justification people are using to restrict light brightness, which is that is blind other drivers dangerously.
I would consider motorbikes and bicycles to fall under that category, but I expected that people understood that I wasn't going into the minutiae of a hypothetical regulation that I'm not responsible for writing. There are, of course, lots of edge cases that I didn't include.
If you're making a case for pedestrians, or people indoors, I think that's gonna need to some more serious justification.