Mark Baker
Appearances
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
So there are basically techniques for survival. You can get blue blocker type glasses with a yellow tint or an orange tint. It does help the glare so they can try that. But it's really sort of not safe because the way LED light is, it's a directional light. It's very intense. And I've tried them myself. I basically can't see so I don't use them.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
And so the empowerment comes from our listeners contacting the government, joining up with the Soft Lights Foundation, contacting me, getting involved, and let's fix this systemic problem.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
It's not really like an inspiration. It was more like a disaster. So I used to be a middle school math teacher. And when these LED headlights started coming out, I remember vividly this new thing appeared, the Cadillac. And they had daytime running lights. I was assaulted by this LED light that I'd never seen anything like it before.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
And it was a white light, but some kind of a weird intensity that felt like it's indescribable, really. It sort of looks like a hot oven, but with a blue color to me. And it was really emotionally disturbing. So those headlights and other LED lights knocked me out of being a teacher. I couldn't get to work anymore without suffering these impacts, these neurological, psychological impacts.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
So many people don't see it, but other people can actually consciously see it. So they're driving around seeing flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker. And that's, of course, really disturbing.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
I would love to. We've notified the government. They have copies of this petition. But just recently, we exceeded 70,000 signatures.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
So we have thousands of comments, and they talk about their astigmatism and how the light impacts their astigmatism. They talk about how they can't see. They talk about how they stopped driving at night. They're begging us to do something about the problem, begging anybody to do something about
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
The government is not paying attention. So we're getting more and more aggressive. We are pushing. We've been doing this for a long time already. So we've developed expertise on how this all worked. The Soft Lights Foundation has submitted multiple regulatory petitions, formal petitions to the government. Some have been just flat out denied. I have two petitions in there right now.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
One to set the limit on maximum intensity. which right now there's no overall limit on maximum intensity. It can be as intense as they want. In fact, I do have a lawsuit. I filed it by myself. It's against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Today, Explained
Blinded by the headlights
and the Food and Drug Administration together, because there is a statute that requires the FDA and the NHTSA to establish a liaison and test and evaluate products that emit electromagnetic radiation. That includes LED headlights. They don't want to. They are fighting my lawsuit, and so I'm trying to compel them to do their job.