Anyone who’s recently driven after dark likely knows what it feels like to be temporarily blinded by the startlingly bright headlights of another car on the road. United States Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has introduced a bill to prevent that from happening.
Perez introduced H.R. 7772 in March, and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is currently reviewing it.
The body of the bill is less than 100 words long and reads: “Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule to revise [the] Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard … to establish a maximum allowable brightness standard for low beam headlamps on motor vehicles that is expressed in lumens or another appropriate (as determined by the Secretary) photometric measurement.”
