Welcome to Lightmare ......
Our organisation has been formed to fight the growing road safety issue of blinding lights which diminish a driver's ability to perceive hazards. 

These prominent professors have declared that these lights are dangerous to the human eye:

Dr. Nisa M. Khan Ph D President IEM LED Lighting Technologies
Dr. Peter Veto PhD Univ. of Ulm
Mark Baker BSc Electrical Engineering Softlights Foundation
Dr. Peter Heilig, Univ. of Vienna (Expert Opinion) (Lethal Lights)
Dr. Markus Plfleger, Univ. of Vienna (Lethal Lights)
John Marshall, Univ. College London (Daily Mail)
Dr. David M. Kleinman Univ. of Rochester New York (CBS)
Geoff Roberson, Association of Optometrists (BBC)

All the manufacturers can say is that "they meet the regulations". Surely from the thousands of complaints and increase in accidents since blinding lights were mandated by the EU, it proves the regulations are wrong.

Rather than saving lives, these lights are killing people - why are the authorities doing nothing? why are they permitting this to continue?
The Authorities are allowing this "Lightmare" to escalate, they are putting the most vulnerable and less conspicuous road users at risk - pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. 

 


HID-Xenon headlight + Blinding  LED Daytime Running Lights>
News
  # Jan 24 -  Report to Parliament - Modern Vehicle Headlights Dazzle Drivers and Compromise Safety
  # Jan 24 -  Telegraph How LED Headlights have become a blight on British Roads
  # Jan 24 -  RAC A Glaring Problem
  # Jan 24 -  RAC Drivers Demand Action
  # Nov 23 -  Photosensitivity - Photophobia Emer. Prof. P Heilig
  # May 23 -  Telegraph Car Headlights are making driving unbearable
  # Feb 23 -  Letter to Gwynedd Council - Environmental Light Pollution – Aberdaron
  # Nov 22 -  Letter No.2 to Gwynedd Council with their negative responses to both letters
                    Dangerous Road Humps 2
  # Oct 22 -  Letter to Gwynedd Council Dangerous Road Humps
  # Oct 22 -  Peter Veto Universilty of Ulm - three short videos we now have blinding:
                    LED headlights LED vs. halogen headlights | apparent luminance distribution
                    Why are LED headlights so glaring? | Part 1: Luminance
                     Why are LED headlights so glaring? | Part 2: Color
  # Apr 22 -  The Telegraph The Problem of Blinding Car Headlights
  # Apr 22 -  Cree Whitepaper Is Street Lighting Damaging our Health?
                     This whitepaper by leading LED manufacturer CREE, explains that present methods                     of measuring the intensity of incandescent light are inappropriate for LED's and why                     we are blinded by LED's.       Our thanks to Simon Nicholas of Lightaware
  # Apr 22 -  Letter to Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Transport Safety
                     Requesting safe light levels to be determined by ophthalmologists
                     and blinding LED lights are modified to comply with UK regulations
  # Feb 22 -  Light "SINN" How blinding lights affect the eye and causes accidents to increase
                     Professor Peter Heilig and Roy Milnes Lightmare
  # Oct 21 -  Light-emitting-diode induced retinal damage and its wavelength dependency
                     International Journal of Opthalmology
  # Sep 21 -  NEW GLOBAL PETITION Ban Blinding Headlights to Save Lives Softlights change.org
  # Sep 21 -  The Dangers of LED’s Dr P Veto (utube 10mins)
 

Our aim is to persuade the world regulators (NHTSA and UNECE) to limit eye damaging light intensity from:-
 
   #  LED and High Intensity Discharge Xenon Headlamps - causes temporary blindness

   #  Misuse of brake and fog lights - contravention of highway codes

   #  Over-bright Daytime Running Lights (DRL)
- the EU have set maximum brightness to 1,200cd
    to compete with the sun - the Japanese proposed a more acceptable 200cd = bright sidelights


Manufacturers and Government appear not to care about the dangers of blinding lights.
In this website we explain why a driver's vision is affected by blinding lights.
We document the growing body of Expert ophthalmological opinionLegal opinion and  Media  coverage
See the thousands of comments on our original UK petition to March 2015 (Excel file with 4683 comments)

Supporting Organisations:-
Lightmare are worldwide a voluntary group of experienced motorists including scientists, engineers, mathematicians, lawyers and ophthalmologists supported by the leading pedestrian, cycling and motorcycling organisations who are committed to improving road safety by reducing glare and other distractions in the driving environment.
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