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. John Lincoln Lightaware 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 "the lights meet the regulations". Surely from the thousands of complaints and increase in accidents since blinding lights were mandated by the EU in 2011, it proves that the regulations are wrong. Rather than saving lives, these lights are killing people - why do road safety experts and manufacturers permit this carnage to continue? Please also see Softlights.org (comment and sign the petition) and also Lightaware.org who are very effectively campaigning and under the chairmanship of Baroness Hayter prepared the Report to Parliament: Modern Vehicle Headlights Dazzle Drivers and may Compromise Road Safety which has initiated the TRRL study - due April 2025. | 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.
It is morally wrong for one set of well protected traffic participants cocooned in airbag padded steel safety cages to attempt to gain a safety advantage at the expense of less conspicuous more vulnerable road users. Since blinding lights were permitted by the UNECE global technical regulations in 2011 accidents have not decreased as predicted and in many countries increased. It is accepted that in-car LED screens are also a distraction, moves are being made by some manufacturers to return to tactile switches.  LED and HID-Xenon headlight + Blinding LED Daytime Running Lights> |
News
# Dec 24 - LED Headlights - The Biggest Blunder of Modern Science Dr. Nisa Khan
New book - available on Kindle £20.68
# Nov 24 - BBC Do ultra bright headlights really blind drivers?
# Nov 24 - GB News Older motorists could see new driving law changes due to headlight glare
# Sep 24 - UK Transport Road Research Laboratory to report on blinding lights - due April 2025
# May 24 - Softlights.org LED Incident Submission Report an incident, or the impact of LEDs
# Apr 24 - Daily Mail - Crackdown on LED headlights that dazzle other drivers
# Jan 24 - Report to Parliament: 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
# 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)
# Dec 24 - LED Headlights - The Biggest Blunder of Modern Science Dr. Nisa Khan
New book - available on Kindle £20.68
# Nov 24 - BBC Do ultra bright headlights really blind drivers?
# Nov 24 - GB News Older motorists could see new driving law changes due to headlight glare
# Sep 24 - UK Transport Road Research Laboratory to report on blinding lights - due April 2025
# May 24 - Softlights.org LED Incident Submission Report an incident, or the impact of LEDs
# Apr 24 - Daily Mail - Crackdown on LED headlights that dazzle other drivers
# Jan 24 - Report to Parliament: 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
# 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
# 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 opinion, Legal opinion and Media coverage
See the thousands of comments on our original UK petition to March 2015 (Excel file with 4683 comments)
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.
pedestrian, cycling and motorcycling organisations who are committed to improving road safety by reducing glare and other distractions in the driving environment.
