New Vehicle Headlights, the Scourge of the Night Driver

Want to know what’s really been making me grumpy for the last few years? No it’s not the lack of sugar on my cereal.  It’s headlights.  Namely, the extra headlights manufacturers have been tacking on the front of their vehicles as if they’re decorating for the 4th of July.

I can remember a time, (yes I’m old as well as grumpy) when a driver could get a ticket for driving with their brights on.  Well these days there are even more morons who either forget or simply will not dim. Some think that a few yards of median between the traffic lanes make it unnecessary to dim.  Many have forgotten, or never learned, that one must dim when approaching another vehicle from behind too.
Now if the intention of manufacturers was to provide better and safer lighting on dark lonely roads with little traffic, then they succeeded.  Then they proceeded to sell those vehicles to idiots who think it’s cool to leave all the lights lit no matter the traffic facing them or not.  Some leave the high beams on as well just to compound the problem for those of us forced to drive long hours at night.
So now, instead or just facing twenty or thirty sets of lights at once we are forced to face almost twice that many.  Add to that the new ultra bright lights, you know those lovely blue ones that tear the corneas off a little at a time.
Why don’t we all just put aircraft landing lights on all our vehicles and leave them on the whole time so we can all go blind together?