Hi Alan!
Regarding your nighttime vision issue:
Many new cars have bright headlights which remain ON by default, until the light sensor detects another oncoming car, at which time they lower to "less blinding" setting
Additionally, our Z cars are somewhat lower than common street machines today, and the new projector lamps seem aimed directly at our level.I've found that if I flash my highbeams at an oncoming offender, his lights automatically dip to 'Less Lethal'. If that doesn't work (or if the oncoming driver flashes even brighter lights) "other methods" are required.
I've spoken with several law enforcement officials about this problem and they assure me that, altho the CT State Highway Code still strictly limits the number of Lumens any civilian vehicle may emit, enforcement has become problematic. Special State-Approved and calibrated light meters are required to measure the headlamps or road lamps or flood lamps or light bars in order to get a court conviction. Such light meters are expensive enough to prohibit each police car from carrying one, requiring a shift supervisor to respond to each such complaint while the cop and offender wait for it to arrive. The small fine for such a conviction comes nowhere near the cost of the wait and the trouble to persecute these offenses. Therefore, the liberal government simply ignores your plight and lets them blind you.
Further, the CT State Highway Code still strictly prohibits the use of any colored lights on the front of civilian vehicles, except pure white (headlamps) and amber (parking/directional lamps). All other color lights are reserved for various emergency vehicles. Today we are seeing masses of vehicles dressed up like Christmas trees with various color lights on every side of them. That's clearly a violation but it has become ignored by the people who we pay our taxes to; we have no protection against idiots who want to impersonate police officers and drive thru traffic flashing red and blue lights from their cars. Nearby states permit such light displays, and if the car is registered to one of those states, that further complicates a conviction here. The liberal government simply ignores your plight and lets them impersonate cops.
And the next time some juvenile races down main street blatantly pulling wheelies on his unregistered/uninsured dirt bike, don't expect the cops to stop him, either.
Be more careful how you vote next time; your wonderful nation, which you sweat and slaved to help build, is being dismantled before your very eyes while the devil dances and laughs.
Vote harder.
Frank T