Ban on the use of bright white headlamps in motor vehicles sought

[Monseratto]

Good luck...

http://congress.gov.ph/press/details.php?pressid=5090

15 May 2011 10:02:37 AM
Writer: Lorelei V. Castillo, MRS-PRIB

A lawmaker has moved to prohibit the use and installation of bright white headlights or headlamps in motor vehicles to reduce the cases of road accidents and enhance road safety and convenience.

Rep. Neri Javier Colmenares (Party-list, Bayan Muna), Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms, filed House Bill 3769 to be known as "An Act Prohibiting the Use of High Intensity Discharge (HID) Headlamps."

Colmenares said the use of HID or Xenon headlamps cause inconvenience to the drivers or passengers of other vehicles due to the excessive glare coming from these headlamps.

"Many countries have prohibited or regulated the use of these headlamps precisely in response to the threat to road safety posed by its use," Colmenares said.

Colmenares cited 2008 statistics of the Department of Health (DOH), which listed road accident as the fourth leading cause of death in the country.

According to the DOH statistics, road accidents usually happen at night or in dim environment where there is poor visibility. In these instances, vehicles use their headlights or headlamps to provide visibility.

Colmenares said the measure addresses the problem of threat to road safety posed by the use of non-standard headlights, particularly bright and glaring white lights by vehicles that use HID or high intensity discharge headlamps.

"The use of these HID headlamps in vehicles, including refitting of tungsten-halogen headlamps to HID headlamps, is not in consonance with traffic safety standards," Colmenares said.

Colmenares said the HID headlamp produces excessively bright white lights and the glare can distract drivers of approaching vehicles which may result in serious accidents endangering other vehicles and pedestrians.

Under the bill, any person or entity selling motor vehicles caught selling the prohibited item shall be fined P100,000 for every sale of a vehicle fitted with the headlamp. The registered car owner and the person driving a motor vehicle installed with or using the prohibited HID headlamp shall each be fined with P10,000.

[niky]

They should simply enact a law mandating the use of light cut-offs for all HIDs and a maximum allowable lumens in scatter above the cut-off.

Of course, this being the Philippines, the bill will go nowhere, because the lawmakers don't know enough about automotive technology...

[ghosthunter]

They should simply enact a law mandating the use of light cut-offs for all HIDs and a maximum allowable lumens in scatter above the cut-off.

Of course, this being the Philippines, the bill will go nowhere, because the lawmakers don't know enough about automotive technology...

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[Ry_Tower]

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Yan surely boboto ako!

[renzo_d10]

& how will they differentiate again on whats bright and whats okay ? :hysterical:

[Ry_Tower]

& how will they differentiate again on whats bright and whats okay ? :hysterical:

Let me guess..

based on law-mens?

[rattrapante]

Does this also mean that cars that come standard with HID are also banned? There seems to be no note on factory OEM hid headlights. What about driving lights or fog lights that are HID, are they ok? Since the law only prohibits HID from headlamps.

Many install brighter lights to compensate for the lack of lighting in many steets in the Philippines, I think that is what they should be tackling instead of the tax paying drivers and their automobiles.

This seems to be another reason for traffic enforcers to get "KOTONG".

[shakatak70]

Good luck...

http://congress.gov.ph/press/details.php?pressid=5090

teka baka yung sasakyan ni Colmenares at yung sa kanyang mga kamag-anakan ay naka HID. Linis bakod muna bago yung sa iba.

[DeathRow]

Whatta loada crap. Lighten up the streets so we don't have an excuse to upgrade, idiots.

[meledson]

Whatta loada crap. Lighten up the streets so we don't have an excuse to upgrade, idiots.

not all streets can have street lights. too expensive for the goverment.

[DeathRow]

not all streets can have street lights. too expensive for the goverment.

My point exactly.

[foresterx]

not all streets can have street lights. too expensive for the goverment.

no it's not if they stop being so selfish and corrupt.

we own a pharmaceutical and just got a govt. order worth 2M peso of medicines, the guys who placed the order from us wanted our company to put 5M on the receipt and give us 1M for doing that. i won't say who they are here but we refused and they canceled their order. i'm sure they do the same for every govt. purchase or projects.

Precisely, banning is not a solution, regulation is what they need to do. Similar to owning Guns, even though guns are sometimes use to do illegal stuff, you can't just ban them.

i agree with this. oh and about the gun part, have you ever seen a crime where the suspect had a license and a permit to carry? no never, all suspects didn't have the proper documents to own a gun. lahat ng alam ko na suspect na may license at ptc ay pulis or govt. official never pa ang civilian.

[renzo_d10]

tanga yan sila. ban lang ng ban. they don't know that their cars are equipped with HIDs as well.

[digitalron]

The law should be revised so that factory-installed HIDs are ok (after passing Government testing prior to release to market) while after-market HID installation should be regulated with appropriate certification requirements.

Then cars with cheap-*$$ HID installations owned by trying-hard wannabes can be accosted and the owner fined. Leniency can be offered (lower fine) if they can point out the non-certified shop/individual that did the installation or who sold the piece of trash leading to an arrest/hefty fine.