Dear Supporters, 

Today I sent this letter to NHTSA.  I don't think I can be any more clear.
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Dear Ann Carlson, Acting Administrator, NHTSA,

On November 2, 2021, you sent me the following email:

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Dear Mr. Baker,

Thank you for your correspondence. We have received your October 31 and June 27,  2021 letters and they are currently under review in my office. We will follow up when we have additional information to share.

Sincerely,

Ann Carlson

Ann Carlson

Chief Counsel

U.S. Department of Transportation

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE
Washington, DC  20590

ann.carlson@dot.gov
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It's now over a year later and NHTSA still has not acted on the issue of non-compliant LED headlights.

At this point, we now know that NHTSA has no jurisdiction or authority to regulate LED vehicle headlights.  We know this because all the federal agencies that have responded to us have stated unequivocally that they defer entirely to the FDA for regulation of LED visible radiation.  There is no special carve-out for NHTSA.

Your decision to continue to ignore the automaker's use of unvetted, unregulated, unapproved, and dangerous LED headlights, LED Daytime Running Lights, LED brake lights, etc. is or will be under tight scrutiny.  How long has NHTSA known about this issue? Why didn't NHTSA act?  Who inside NHTSA was making the decisions to ignore this issue?  I have been contacting at least 50 NHTSA employees, plus the NHTSA whistleblower for over 2 years now.

Eventually there will be an investigation by some outside agency such as the Congressional House Oversight Committee, the US Department of Justice, a state Attorney General... Who knows how it will go?  But we can be sure that there will be an investigation because the decision to ignore the jurisdiction issues and dangers of flat surface, directed energy LED visible radiation devices is having massive impacts on citizen safety, citizen health, the economy, and political futures.

It is time for you to notify the public that NHTSA has no jurisdiction to regulate LED headlights, no automaker complied with the federal regulatory process to petition either NHTSA or the FDA  for authorization to use LED headlights, and that all vehicles with LED headlights must be recalled because they are non-compliant and dangerous.

Sincerely,

Mark Baker
President
Soft Lights Foundation
www.softlights.org
mbaker@softlights.org
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