It's not the number of lights or whether they are front or rear. They are just too unnecessarily bright, which seems to have caused the leapfrogging war we complain about from time to time (like now). Some headlamps are painful enough in daylight, never mind after dark.
If GB can complain about them when seated a foot or two higher than most car drivers, they must be pretty bad.
One evening in the 80s returning down the M6, very few trucks on the road evening time then on B'ham elevated section, it was dark and clear and had been raining you could see for miles, probably half the cars on the road had their rear fogs on (*presumably showing their car had them whilst the pleb class didn't*) but because i was in the truck instead of seeing one or two sets of super bright rear lights it was hundreds of the damned things far as the eye could see, and refections in the wet surface doubled the glare.
Far from making cars more visible had anyone braked you'd barely notice the brighter than usual lights.
** nothing's changed, half the cars on the road never used indicators until they found scrolling indicators on their latest toy, then all of a sudden everyone was using indiactors like billio on the motorways, pity no one can work out how to use them on roundabouts..
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