LED Incident Reports
February 2, 2025 – Ovilla, TX – Other
Momentary blindness that occurs repeatedly during nighttime commute to work.
February 2, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA – Astigmatism
Driving in the evening or at night has now become an impossible, highly stress-inducing task. I have almost been in an accident so many times due to having to look away from the road to avoid being blinded. This is insanity and I cannot imagine having to deal with this for the rest of my life. I have never felt more unsafe driving on the road and it seems insane to me that there has been no regulation on these blinding lights. I am begging someone to help put an end to this nightmare.
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The US Department of Energy describes LEDs as radically new technology with a directional light and unique characteristics. It is these features that make LED light so harmful. Traditional light sources radiate the light outward. LEDs focus the light into a beam. Because LEDs emit a directional beam of focused light, the light does not disperse gently over distance, so even from far away, LED light is extremely intense. LED light is exceedingly dense in the middle of the beam, but the density is near zero at the edges. The unique characteristics of LED light include the directional beam, non-uniform spatial distribution, unnatural spectral power distribution, square wave flicker, and digital flashing. Each individual and creature reacts differently to the different characteristics. There are little or no government regulations for any of this.