Dear Supporters,

On December 2, 2022, NHTSA rejected our petition to issue a notice of non-compliance to Ford for their LED headlights.  In their rejection letter, NHTSA made the invalid statement that the geometry of the light source is irrelevant.

One of the reasons why LED headlights are so horrible is because the light emitted by LEDs does not disperse over distance the way the light from a typical tungsten filament disperses.  Our eyes are receiving nearly the entire energy of a 70,000,000 nit LED light source.

LEDs are not fit for the purpose of illumination.  They do not provide safe, uniform illumination, and the light does not disperse following an inverse square law.  To fix this catastrophe, I have petitioned NHTSA to amend FMVSS-108 to require that the light source for all lamps emit spatially uniform light that follows an inverse square law for dispersion.  You can read the petition here: https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHTSA-Petition-to-Require-Inverse-Square-Law-Lamps.pdf

The petition to NHTSA contains the thousands of comments that you have submitted to this change.org petition.  We can only hope that the people who run the government will take your comments seriously.

Sincerely,

Mark Baker
President
Soft Lights Foundation