Good evening,
I'm new to this forum. Long time lurker first time poster. I'm writing this today for genuine help. I'm going to be working with the Juneau Police Department in setting something up in the way of headlight enforcement. I'm sure as most of you all know Alaskan headlight laws are archaic and totally inadquate. They don't even so much as mention the FMVSS safety standards that have come to define the professional head-lighting industry.
The level of civic disobedience and complacency amongst law enforcement is shocking. The lack of enforcement is scary. I feel kinda worried about my safety. I've seen LED fog lights operated on trucks without their headlights even turned on. I've even seen a city firetruck with blue-rich fogs being operated instead of their head-lighting assembly. I might be off, but the low down bumper mounted lights were very dim and very blue, and I'm genuinely worried about the safety of first responders to accidents. I've also seen city buses with blue-rich assemblies, though I have yet to verify with the organization their complaince with the FMVSS. I've also seen HID kits mixed with halogen assemblies in that one headlight is halogen and the other is a very blue hid. I've seen LED fogs generate horrific glare during overcast daylight hours. One thing that I still need to notice, simply anecdotally, is that those with the illegal HID kits also tend to have very heavy tinted windows making me wonder if they're running totally blind. I've also seen modifications that oddly replace the rear backup light with very bright blue-rich LEDs in the old halogen assembly. Typically these modifiers also at times smoke tail lights out and their headlights out.
To that end I had a word with some of the local LEO's, pretty pleasent people actually, they gave me a number to a Sargeant on Duty to route my information on headlight enforcement to. That's where I'm turning to this forum. You have all taught me so much, but now I am asking for help with helping the local police agency to enforce headlight laws. With that being said, where do start? I have a link to the SEMA page documenting the dangers of HID kits, but they go into mentioning NHTSA. I was wondering would it even be possible to get NHTSA to help provide an official source with backbone to help this agency with its enforcement? I want to just start with a solid basis for enforcement before anything else.
I'm new to this forum. Long time lurker first time poster. I'm writing this today for genuine help. I'm going to be working with the Juneau Police Department in setting something up in the way of headlight enforcement. I'm sure as most of you all know Alaskan headlight laws are archaic and totally inadquate. They don't even so much as mention the FMVSS safety standards that have come to define the professional head-lighting industry.
The level of civic disobedience and complacency amongst law enforcement is shocking. The lack of enforcement is scary. I feel kinda worried about my safety. I've seen LED fog lights operated on trucks without their headlights even turned on. I've even seen a city firetruck with blue-rich fogs being operated instead of their head-lighting assembly. I might be off, but the low down bumper mounted lights were very dim and very blue, and I'm genuinely worried about the safety of first responders to accidents. I've also seen city buses with blue-rich assemblies, though I have yet to verify with the organization their complaince with the FMVSS. I've also seen HID kits mixed with halogen assemblies in that one headlight is halogen and the other is a very blue hid. I've seen LED fogs generate horrific glare during overcast daylight hours. One thing that I still need to notice, simply anecdotally, is that those with the illegal HID kits also tend to have very heavy tinted windows making me wonder if they're running totally blind. I've also seen modifications that oddly replace the rear backup light with very bright blue-rich LEDs in the old halogen assembly. Typically these modifiers also at times smoke tail lights out and their headlights out.
To that end I had a word with some of the local LEO's, pretty pleasent people actually, they gave me a number to a Sargeant on Duty to route my information on headlight enforcement to. That's where I'm turning to this forum. You have all taught me so much, but now I am asking for help with helping the local police agency to enforce headlight laws. With that being said, where do start? I have a link to the SEMA page documenting the dangers of HID kits, but they go into mentioning NHTSA. I was wondering would it even be possible to get NHTSA to help provide an official source with backbone to help this agency with its enforcement? I want to just start with a solid basis for enforcement before anything else.