LED lights – the curse of modern motoring

WITH worldwide protests concerning infringements of personal liberties and freedom hitting the headlines daily, I propose a new one to join the list! – ban LED car headlights, in fact all LED lighting! Their potential to cause eye damage must be classed as a criminal imposition on humanity!

While it’s obvious that governments and world leaders seek to remove petrol and diesel cars from the roads, it isn’t rocket science to consider what may well have lurked behind the intention of flooding the roads with blinding LED headlights! People will just give up grappling with the horrendous headlight glare, which on many cars look appropriately positively evil!

There must be loads of ‘aware’ individuals like myself, slowly becoming concerned about the negative effects on their vision, and who are watching all aspects of Agenda 21 so predictably rolling out! We all ‘get the picture’, or at least, a large percentage of us do!

But how many, finding the horror of driving towards LED headlights totally unacceptable, are aware that while they cause horrendous temporary blindness and dangerous after images, they are known to cause serious permanent eye damage! Of course there are many contradictions, but some reliable scientific studies, I believe are trustworthy.

Damage to the retina for example, is confirmed in several studies and in relationship to ageing eyes, an increase in the incidence of cataracts and the potential for macular degeneration appears to be fact!

Several studies which can be checked out via a Google search, confirm many sinister effects and these include sleep disturbance and many dysfunctional metabolic processes, to include cancer.

In fact, I wrote to express my concerns to DCC about the potential risks to health when LED street lights were first introduced, and housed on brackets next to bedroom windows.

The stress of driving with this increasing curse imposed on us, doesn’t only affect the older generation either. I have spoken to younger drivers, who now find driving to be no longer pleasant and actually, after dark, a very dangerous experience!

Driving at night is now unpleasant for many people, regardless of age, and, as in many areas of life, there is a mandatory intrusion on our senses via dangerous light spectrums. They are undoubtedly known to impact on our sleep cycles and metabolic health.

Let’s get them banned. The choice to maintain good health and vision should be a human right! They are now everywhere, with people jumping on the bandwagon

and sticking them on houses too! What happened to good old-fashioned subtle lighting?

A mass protest about this, at the very least, to address the absence of public consultation, must happen! Anyone willing to join me?

Liz Bywater, Derby