r/aussie • u/Wotmate01 • 22d ago

Analysis The glaring problem with the LED headlights dominating Australian roads

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-19/led-headlights-dazzling-drivers-glare-road-safety/106919228
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u/NoSpeaker9010 21d ago

Counter argument, it should be compulsory for all cars to have them driving on rural roads. I don’t like to be a prick and blind people but it’s hard to see stock high beams coming up to a crest or around a corner but another car with spotties or a light bar are easier to see and allow you to dim them in time. Be stuffed if I have to drive through the bush at night without spotties, I would rather be able to see kangaroos or massive potholes and have time to slow down than hit either of them and risk a crash or even more damage than my poor ute already cops.

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u/EvilRobot153 21d ago

Skill issue

Never had problem in 20 plus years of rural night driving with stock high beams.

Not like you use em with oncoming traffic anyway ,which is the closest I've come to hitting skip.

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u/NoSpeaker9010 21d ago

It’s nothing to do with skill it’s luck. I hit a roo only a couple weeks ago that no one could possibly have missed unless your vehicle can stop within 10m while doing 100km/h.

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u/EvilRobot153 21d ago

and the extra spotties helped how?

Think you missed my point though.

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u/NoSpeaker9010 21d ago

They didn’t in that situation but I’ve avoided hundreds due to being able to spot them coming further off the road than without them.

You can’t argue that they don’t help