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Blinded by the light: glare from those chic blue HID headlights has many drivers seeing red. Here's why some lights can be a problem and what you can do.
Odds are, you love high-intensity discharge (HID) headlights if they're on your vehicle. Lighting tests we've begun as part of our vehicle evaluations show that low-beam HID lights flood the roadway with a wider, brighter, more uniform light than regular halogens. But drivers on the receiving end of that light describe it in less-than-glowing terms.
When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it was looking into complaints about glare from HID lights, high-mounted sport-utility-vehicle lights, and fog lights, most of the roughly 4,000 responses that poured in complained about HIDs.
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