High Intensity Brake Lights!!!!

[Squealey]

Has anyone been unfortunate enough to sit behind a new shape Mini in a traffic jam in the dark? It has migraine inducing brake lights!!!

Found the newer Range Rovers suffer the same affliction. How do they get away with it??

Is it just me being a grumpy old man??

[feeutfo]

cant say i've noticed Grumpy. :-)

One of those cooper "s" models out ran me up a motorway slip road though. But i was on lpg at the time.

[waspy]

cant say i've noticed Grumpy. :-)

One of those cooper "s" models out ran me up a motorway slip road though. But i was on lpg at the time.

They are fast little buggers.

I've sat with my eyes closed, because i was sat behind some of these new LED's.
Also has anyone noticed the Passat's indicators can hardly be seen when their braking. They have the indicators in the middle of a round blake clusters. Bloody dangerous in my opinion

[bob.dent]

This has been really bugging me too. Seems to be quite a few new cars on the road with far too bright high intesity and normal brake lights. Makes it very uncomfortable when you're sat behind them in traffic and they keep their damn foot on the brake even if stationary for a couple of minutes.
Surely there should be a limit to the brightness? :-/

[Tony H]

There is a legal limit on the wattage allowed on conventional bulbs but im not sure about LED'S :-/

[Martin_1962]

LED tail lights make my eyes go funny

[KillerWatt]

Wattage should not be taken as an indicator of lamp brightness, the ONLY thing wattage equates to is the power drawn by the lamp.

The light output for any given lamp is measured in either lumens or lux, and working out the brightness level involves a little bit of mathematics that takes in to account several factors.

[damage consultant]

bacardi makes my eyes go funny [smiley=beer.gif] [smiley=cheesy.gif] [smiley=grin.gif]

[Essex Pete]

I used to work for a company making lamps for lorries and trailers.  There are very strict rules governing the intensity of lights fitteed to all vehicles.  They do measure the intensity of the output at certain positions and distances.  I very much doubt a major manufacturer would not comply with the rules set in place, although things may have changed, as it was a couple of years ago, and the use of LED technology has really taken off. 

We as a complany were developing some of the first uses of LED lights, but without the use of large cluster, i.e using a single led and reflectors to produce the required output

[mantahatch]

I used to work for a company making lamps for lorries and trailers.  There are very strict rules governing the intensity of lights fitteed to all vehicles.  They do measure the intensity of the output at certain positions and distances.  I very much doubt a major manufacturer would not comply with the rules set in place, although things may have changed, as it was a couple of years ago, and the use of LED technology has really taken off. 

We as a complany were developing some of the first uses of LED lights, but without the use of large cluster, i.e using a single led and reflectors to produce the required output

The above used to be true thanks to the "construction and use act". Now I believe we as a country cannot refuse to take any vehicle or goods as long as they are E marked. So yes dangerous cars like the passat and golf with its invisible indicators are legal on our roads even though they would not pass our "construction and use" rules. Sad really.