Dear Supporters,
I have compiled all of our petition comments and the nearly 75,000 signatures into a single 2,256-page document located here. (https://www.softlights.org/ban-blinding-headlights/). This document contains the evidence that the FDA and NHTSA want to believe doesn't exist.
As a supporter, you may submit this 2,256-page document to your Representative in Congress and ask your Representative to sign Rep. Mike Thompson's letter which calls for a hearing on LED headlights. As another suggestion, you could print some of the pages from the document and hand-deliver them to the office of your Representative. You could also submit this document to the local news media.
I am submitting this document to the IIHS, AAA, and to the FDA as a radiation exposure report.
Below is the email that I sent to the US DOJ which is opposing my lawsuit against the FDA and NHTSA:
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Dear Daniel Crane-Hirsch, Senior Trial Attorney, US DOJ,
I have compiled a 2,256-page document containing the comments and signatures from nearly 75,000 individuals on the Ban Blinding Headlights and Save Lives! petition. This document is located at this publicly accessible link (https://www.softlights.org/ban-blinding-headlights/).
While I could submit this evidence to the court under FRCP 72(b)(3), I have decided instead to submit a new regulatory petition to the FDA which references this 2,256 page document and the UK TRL glare study that was just published. (https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/glare-from-road-vehicle-lighting-on-uk-roads). Together, these two documents form indisputable proof that LED headlights are a safety hazard and that the FDA must comply with 21 U.S.C. 360ii(a)(6) and establish and maintain a liaison with NHTSA to test and evaluate LED headlights. A decision by the FDA to ignore or reject this new petition with irrefutable evidence would be immediately challenged in court in a new lawsuit.
Rather than the DOJ submitting a Response to Plaintiff's Objections to Findings and Recommendations in continuance of the federal government's futile effort to ignore the adverse impacts of LED headlamps, I request that the government agree to withdraw its opposition to my lawsuit and instead agree to comply with 21 U.S.C. 360ii for LED vehicle headlamps.
Sincerely,
Mark Baker
President
Soft Lights Foundation
www.softlights.org
mbaker@softlights.org
X: @softlights_org
Bluesky: @softlights-org.bsky.social