A road-safety campaign · Victoria & Australia
Across Australia, drivers are being dazzled by oncoming headlights - especially older eyes, and anyone in a smaller car. Some have stopped driving at night altogether. Add your name to the campaign to make Australian roads safe to see on again.
Australia has never measured headlight glare - so the hard numbers come from the UK and US, and we show them as what they are. The picture they paint is consistent, and there is no reason to think Australian roads are different.
Good headlights save lives - on unlit country roads you want to see further, not less. The fix is not dimmer roads; it is smarter light. Adaptive headlights already exist that light the road fully while shading the driver coming the other way. We want correct aim, an end to illegal retrofits, and lights rated for the dazzle they throw - so everyone can see.
Four changes, each aimed at the body that can actually deliver it. None of them is “make headlights dimmer”.
Victoria (roadworthy & defect notices) + national
Misaimed headlights are one of the biggest causes of dazzle, and no one can argue against correctly-aimed lights. Put headlight-aim back into roadworthy and defect-notice checks.
Victoria + federal import/sale
Cheap LED and HID “conversion” bulbs jammed into halogen housings are already illegal under the Australian Design Rules and scatter light everywhere. Crack down at the point of import and sale, not just the roadside.
ANCAP
ANCAP already tests how well a car sees. It does not test how much it blinds everyone else. A glare rating is cheap, needs no new law, and rewards the carmakers who get it right.
Federal ADR review + Australian research
There is no Australian study of headlight glare - the numbers in the news are borrowed from the UK. Fund the Australian evidence and reform the Design Rules to limit glare where it actually happens: at the eye, not at the lamp.
A signature is a number a politician has to answer to. Sign, and we'll point the list at the state enforcers, the federal rule-makers, and the safety-rating body all at once.
Been blinded on the road? Tell us what happened. Because no one in Australia collects this, your report helps build the first local evidence - the exact gap the regulator hides behind.
Older eyes are affected more - light-scatter roughly triples between 45 and 77 - but that is exactly the point: the roads are becoming unusable at night for a growing share of Australians. Younger drivers report being dazzled too.
A car’s own good headlights do help its driver see - we are not disputing that. The problem is the light thrown into everyone else’s eyes. The two can be separated, and adaptive headlight technology already does it.
Both. The brightness standard for new cars is federal (the Australian Design Rules), so we push Canberra on the rules. But Victoria controls enforcement - roadworthy checks, defect notices, and the illegal-retrofit trade - so that is where local pressure bites first.
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