Big fan of active LED’s, the ability to stay on main beam in areas of the road that don’t cause dazzle, but the car switching off the individual LED’s that would cause issues for other traffic. Each headlight contains 80-100 individual LED’s. It’s a little disconcerting at first to see a constantly changing spread of light ahead of you, but very effective. As to why LED’s as opposed to halogen headlights, they’re more adaptable (as above), lower power consumption, and the colour temperature is closer to daylight, meaning they’re easier on the eye as a driver.

Understood, but none of this worth dazzling the coming traffic by simply having brighter headlights (adaptive or not, LED's are way brighter than halogen). The priority should be inclusive of all road users and not based of car manufacturers for ever pushing more tech at any opportunity, even if its beneficial or not.

Yesterday I was blinded by a push bike ffs.

As to why LED’s as opposed to halogen headlights, they’re more adaptable (as above), lower power consumption, and the colour temperature is closer to daylight, meaning they’re easier on the eye as a driver.

As you say there are 80 or more LEDs per lamp, it would seem quite possible to make do with 20 or 30 to reduce the total intensity. IMHO most new lamps are as bright as they are because of continuous leapfrogging by manufacturers. 'See and be seen' is fine, except for everyone else.

Drove a Q5 with matrix led headlights tonight in that awful weather. Have to say they are pretty impressive, particularly on auto full beam. Didn’t get flashed once on the M6 or a roads either so I assume people weren’t dazzled by them.

It would be interesting to know what they cost to replace if some one breaks one for you in the supermarket car park.

Yes, also these laser headlights you get. I was reading a read test of a car with them, and my thoughts were that, yes, they may well turn night into day, but how much to replace should they get pranged or fail?!

I can honestly say that I’m not bothered by the brightness of LED lights, given that the majority are self-levelling. The only time it's an issue is when someone flashes main beam at close range as thanks for letting them go first. I’ll settle for s little wave, even if I don’t see it in the dark.

I quite often find myself thinking that the approaching vehicle has main beam on but it has turned out that a very slight difference in the angle of the road surface has the dipped beam pointing at my face. Not just me and my (nearly) 50 year old eyes, if I've had someone else in the car, including one of my sons, I've had them complaining that the vehicle coming towards us has the main beam on. Of course going back a few years, they might have been xenon, but these days it is much more likely to be LED.

I can't really complain though, our Suzuki Ignis has LED's, so I might be blinding oncoming traffic myself!. That said, the car is not used very much, and hardly ever in the dark. If I'm driving in the dark, it is much more likely to be in the van, which has halogen bulbs.