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jg (not verified)    January 2, 2020 - 3:41PM

What's "wrong" is that all manufacturers figured out that LED headlights are far superior to previous technology. One of the main reasons I traded in my 2016 Outback with HID headlights for a 2018 was to get the LED headlights. After driving with them in my wife's 2017 Forester it was like night and day (pun intended).

It's possible the headlight-aiming standards need to change to accommodate the retina-burning intensity of LEDs, but there was similar criticism (starting with HID lights) for these overly-bright lights not illuminating far enough down the road not too long ago. So there really is no pleasing anyone, and if you've still got yellow headlights (as many of the oncoming drivers cited in the previous comments probably do) then individual drivers will need to learn how to deal with bright oncoming lights to preserve their vision at night -- like looking at the right shoulder instead of at the oncoming lights to avoid temporarily incapacitating your fovea (your central point of vision).

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