So now you are calling our local police officers incompetent? Are they criminals too? Should our patrol officers be fired for not enforcing headlight laws to your standard.
Yes, if they are not trained to recognize illegal headlights, or choose not to stop people, they are not doing their job. I can appreciate if they are short staffed and think other things take priority, but at the same time the first ticket will make many people reconsider whatever they were doing so it needs to be done.
You know how they should do their jobs better than they, or their commanders?
Yes, as a taxpaying citizen observing problems from illegal behavior, I have a legitimate gripe about it. If laws are not upheld, they become meaningless and shouldn't exist.
This is more of the sanctimonious behavior I have been referring to. Have you even considered that police officers don't see the use of LED headlights in most applications a non issue?
Certainly the worst offenders should be cited first. Can you accept that some lights are so bright as to be ridiculous? The thing is, that's not the legal distinction, doesn't matter how bright they are or aren't, and as soon as you let one person do it, the next one states theirs are about the same (yet are brighter) and the next also, about the same (yet brighter still).
I am sure police officers see an incredible number of violations of the law every day. Should they act on every violation they see? Should the headlight police come and arrest you for aiding and abetting these heinous LED headlight users?
Yes, if there is a law against showing people how to disable their headlight warning circuit, then I accept responsibility, would GLADLY be cited and pay a fine, if likewise it meant that everyone running the illegal LED retrofits, were also fined.
Of course I am being hyperbolic with my above comments. However, when a person becomes radical in applying law and wishing for punishment that is ludicrous for the "crime" involved it is not good for society, in general. Police officers walk a line every day as to what they pursue regarding broken laws. Just maybe the use of LED headlights are not as problematic as you make it out to be.
It's not radical at all to be cited for a vehicle violation, especially one that reduces safety. The LED headlight problem is getting worse not better, so it is more likely that they are more problematic than you realize.
If the use of LEDs were as problematic as you claim then the sale of them to replace the non OEM bulbs would be banned, police officers would be writing scores of tickets etc. From what is occurring in the real world the use of LEDs does not seem to be the raging crime or danger you make it out to be. If LEDs were causing a massive number of accidents there would be a serious effort to remove them from use. In reality, newer vehicles have headlights that are as bright, or brighter, than LED upgrade headlights based on my driving experience. The punitive measures you think should be applied for the use of LEDs is ridiculous. The way you paint a person using LEDs as being an uncaring, morally corrupt criminal is also rediculous and a good bit disturbing, IMO.
Feel free to respond but I have said all I need to say on this matter.
Newer vehicles with LED headlights do not use LED retrofits, and have housings designed to better focus the beam than a retrofit in an incan housing. I'm not opposed to a properly designed housing mated with the LED(s) it was designed for.
The sale of LED retrofits is banned, prohibited, however you want to put it, but that is not enforced which comes back to inadequate law enforcement. Didn't you ever wonder why none of the major 1st world bulb manufacturers, make LED retrofit headlight bulbs, despite making retrofits for most other bulbs?
In any case where an LED retrofit bulb improves vision for the driver, to that extent it is also increasingly blinding other drivers. Yes, that is an uncaring selfish choice, and whether you like a law or not, if you break it, repeatedly, and have no intention of stopping, then criminal seems like as good a word as any to use for it. What word do you feel is more appropriate for that scenario?
It is not disturbing at all to expect people to avoid causing a safety problem on public roads. It is disturbing that you can't accept it for what it is, after so many people have already been blinded by them, and since they're illegal which should be a show stopper all by itself.
The punitive measures are exactly right if we want to be nice to offenders. A citation and fine for the first offense is better than most safety related violations which require that the vehicle not be allowed to drive away at all, instead must be towed or in the case of headlights, left until daylight hours to drive, unless the driver happens to have legal bulbs with them that they can get installed before the tow truck arrives. It wouldn't surprise me the slightest bit if an illegal headlight stop did result in the vehicle being towed the first time.
If you have a problem with laws being enforced and feel the law shouldn't exist, petition your government rep to change the law but until then, it should be enforced, and every time I get blinded by someone, I'm reminded why.
