Dear Supporters,

This week, the petition reached 60,000 signatures.  Now is the right time for us to deliver the thousands of petition comments to members of Congress, NHTSA, and the US DOT.

Just this week, we have uncovered the documentation that shows that NHTSA has known all along that LED headlights have not been formally approved and that Adaptive Driving Beam will not solve the problem of blinding glare from low beam LED headlights.  On December 21, 2005, a NHTSA lawyer sent a Letter of Interpretation to an auto industry company stating that NHTSA "believes" that LEDs could be used as headlights, so long as the LEDs are wired in series.  It appears that the entire auto industry relies on this single Letter of Interpretation for authorization to sell vehicles with LED lighting.  There was no vetting by NHTSA to ensure that LED headlights are safe.  There was no publication of performance standards for intensity, blue wavelength light, or flicker.  There was no opportunity for the public to comment.  All of the existing federal laws that were designed to protect our health, safety, and civil rights were ignored.

In the next few days, Soft Lights Foundation members will be delivering 202 pages of comments from this petition to their members of Congress, along with this letter to US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.  (https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Letter-to-DOT-Secretary.pdf).

For this month's activist action, please print out this letter to Secretary Buttigieg and deliver it to your member of Congress.

Sincerely,

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