We are now in the Wall Steet Journal!
The founder of OwMyEyes is not quite a curmudgeon who created the "push-button light-blocking device for his car to prevent glare".
The word is spreading!
This article is the most well-balanced article talking about headlight brightness that I've seen so far. Even so, it contained statements by headlight advocates that are demonstrably false.
The first is that "headlight misalignment is the primary contributor to glare".
The second is that "wider adoption of newer adaptive headlights—which have sensors that can redirect light—should make glare less of an issue".
Both of these statements are by Mark Rae, and both are not only false, but can be proven false with NHTSA documents.
We've already shown that the ADB (adaptive headlight) statement to be false. The ONLY goal of adaptive headlights is to INCREASE the use of high-beams (also known as driving beams). At best, ADB will maintain the glare levels seen on the road and are much more likely to increase glare than decrease it. See our post titled "ADB: The solution to greater high beam usage, NOT lower glare.".
Our next post will show that NHTSA has already measured the rate of high mis-aligned headlights. They have found that only ~5% of headlights are mis-aligned too high, in both new vehicles and existing vehicles on the road. The 5% number has been reasonable steady for many years while glare has been increasing.
Even though only 5% of headlights are misaligned, even Mark Rae states that ~20% of cars create glare issues for him.
Clearly, this math doesn't add up. This problem goes significantly deeper than blaming individual car owners for "headlight misalignment".