Dear Supporters,

Our petition was prominently mentioned in an article today.  Below is my letter to the reporter who wrote the story.

Dear Russell Falcon, Reporter, The Hill,

I would like to thank you for including the Soft Lights Foundation in your article today. (https://thehill.com/homenews/3806947-are-headlights-brighter-than-they-used-to-be/ We garnered at least an additional 500 signatures on our petition because of your story.  The comments are heartbreaking.  https://www.change.org/p/u-s-dot-ban-blinding-headlights-and-save-lives

In this email, I have copied Mark Rea, John Bullough, Jennifer Stockburger, Matthew Brumbelow, Ann Carlson, Acting Director, NHTSA, and Jeff Shuren, Director, FDA CDRH.  We all know each other and at this point, we are in an open battle because these people are all hiding the true facts.  By including the Soft Lights Foundation and our petition in your article, we are one step closer to helping the public and Congress understand what is wrong with LED headlights, and LED products in general.

LEDs emit extremely dense light from a tiny flat surface chip that has very little dispersion over distance.  This is visible radiation and was required by Congress to be regulated by the FDA.  However, the FDA refuses to do their job and regulate the visible radiation from LED products.  The Soft Lights Foundation submitted a petition on June 12, 2022 to the FDA to regulate LED products, and yet the FDA won't approve it.  https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2022-P-1151-0001

What Mark Rea, John Bullough, Jennifer Stockburger, Matthew Brumbelow, and David Harkey won't tell you is that the correct metric for regulating light from a flat surface is called "luminance".  This luminance is the density of the light from a flat surface.  Chip makers are creating vehicle headlight chips that emit 100,000,000 candela per square meter of peak luminance, whereas maximum human comfort level is 300 candela per square meter.  It's this refusal by the people included in this email to admit that LED headlights must be regulated by peak luminance (in addition to spatial distribution, spectral power distribution, square wave flicker, and pulse width modulation) that is causing everyone to suffer from LED headlights.  In fact, LED headlights are so hazardous because they don't provide safe, uniform illumination and are causing eye damage, photosensitive seizures, and migraines and LEDs simply are not acceptable for use as a vehicle headlight.

The Soft Lights Foundation and its members are actively contacting members of Congress and demanding an investigation.  Why won't the FDA regulate LED products?  Why has this technology achieved such god-like status that nobody in a position of authority is willing to publicly admit that LED visible radiation is extremely hazardous and entirely unregulated?  Your article helps move us towards eventual protection of our eyes, nerves, brain, and our lives.

Sincerely,

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