Close to 380,000 Canadians participated in Transport Canada’s public consultation regarding vehicle headlight glare, a number the department calls a “high volume of responses
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Transport Canada stated to Global News that the department will be releasing its findings in a report but no publication date has been determined.
“Given the significant volume of responses received, analysis and compilation of the survey data is expected to take several months,” Transport Canada stated to Global News.
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Bloc Québécois MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval currently has a petition open that urges the federal government to modernize its vehicle headlight regulations.
The petition is also calling for the government to “incorporate criteria into these regulations that consider human perception of brightness; more strictly regulate the colour spectrum, power and dispersion of light beams, particularly those using LED technology” and “take concrete measures to reduce glare and improve road safety for the entire population, especially seniors.”
It currently has 11,245 signatures. The petition opened on Feb. 17 and is set to close on June 17.
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The American Automobile Association (AAA) also released a study in March that found that six in 10 drivers say glare is a problem after dark, with nearly three-quarters of those affected believing the issue has worsened over the past decade.
Pickup drivers were also found to be less likely to report glare (41 per cent) than drivers of other vehicle types (66 per cent).
I love how they just lump sum pickup trucks as a whole category all their own, with no regard to how tall they are or what year they were made.
Our pickup truck from 1996 is about as tall as a modern sedan style passenger car. Park our truck next to a modern truck, and the modern truck’s fucking hood is taller than our entire vehicle!
Anyways, fuckall with the laser blinding headlights…
/rant
Your old truck is a legacy of a more civilized age. It’s all emotional support vehicles now.
I have a 2013 Ranger that I thought was small when I bought it. Every time I climb up into the bed I wonder why the fuck it has to be so tall.
It’s funny how cars got smaller over time, but trucks got bigger. Cargo capacity didn’t get bigger, but the vehicles sure did.
My theory is that trucks went from carrying supplies around, to carrying egos around. You need a much bigger vehicle to haul an ego than you need for a load…and modern trucks are that vehicle.
Like SUVs, they went from non-passenger work vehicles to non-passenger work vehicle family passenger vehicles.
You can watch the beds shrinking in designs over time, because an ego never hangs over the back.
There’s vehicles that are literally just an SUV with a short segment of missing roof now.
TBF it’s Alberta, but like 80% of the ones I see are more on the brodozer end of the spectrum than on the practical vintage car side. Even tradies have to make do with the bigger, higher models these days because that’s what’s available, although they use and maintain them very differently.
That’s why it was 66% not 100%.