100% agree especially the new generation LED ones on Ambulances! Add to that the fact they seem to break pattern these days and it can be very distracting.
I know the need to be seen, but the blokes on the space station don’t need to know about it!
New traffic lights the colour red burns your eyeballs, also green flag recovery is gona send me into an epileptic fit one night.
waddy640:
Perhaps they could reduce the intensity of the rear high level ones on ambulances when they are on the move.
agree with this. i thought it was just me, but reading the posts its not. phew 
makes sense to have them as bright as possible, especially for when they are on scene at an incident, but as said, they could do with being toned down a tad when on the move.
also agree on the traffic lights. alot of the newer ones appear way to bright.
I too struggle with the intensity of the new style lights, dazzles the hell out you, more dangerous than good IMHO.
EFAD.…Extremely Fast And Dangerous!
Flashing headlights get your attention during daylight hours and the blues catch your attention during the Dark hours.
Regards SB
I just shut my eyes…So far, so good 
I find traffic lights to be to bright sometimes,as for emergency services to me its a good thing at least they can be seen sooner.I dont like the new led driving lights on new cars or idiots with front fogs on and yes you get some numpty truck drivers doing it.All the boy racers used to do it i can understand that they are idiots as for truck drivers well seems more and more are taking the job up!
Dakota:
At night I find the blues and twos very distracting, agree they seem brighter than need be. I also think that the level of driving by certain ambulance drivers is very, very poor. I live near a hospital and have seem some awful driving in the last year. Do they have any form of training to drive an emergency vehicle?
I witnessed an ambulance nearly taking out a van so he could enter a slip road. I don’t think the van driver was happy about it
Agree, with the above and would like to add a couple more;
Following directly behind a convoy vehicle through road works, I can’t see what’s going on around me.
Has anyone else noticed that some cars are giving you a flash of the high beam to let you know they are overtaking you, f off, i saw you coming a minute ago, it’s just distracting me!
We’ve just got a fleet of new focus cars and the blues are led and are far brighter than the old ones. The whole purpose of them are to be noticed but they can hurt your eyes. I’ve been at the back of one when they’re on and after a while it does become a pain in the ■■■.
Even so, so people claim not to see the lights when you try and pull them over… 
joemaxi:
We’ve just got a fleet of new focus cars and the blues are led and are far brighter than the old ones. The whole purpose of them are to be noticed but they can hurt your eyes. I’ve been at the back of one when they’re on and after a while it does become a pain in the ■■■.Even so, so people claim not to see the lights when you try and pull them over…
second that. The new lights are very bright and powerful. They can be noticed easily from miles away but when close up they half hurt the eyes if your near them for a while.
Bit like truck drivers who flash you in at night with main beam AND six roof lights, not necessary to have those switched on.
9/10 traffic cars are fitted with a ‘low power’ or night mode function on the keypad for all the lights for this reason.
Most just hit the 999 button however and that puts it on full kablam.
I have to agree with Stagedriver. All the LED and Strobe lights have a low power option on the switch panel, but it’s usually hit 999 or on scene and leave it at that. Misuse in such a way that I have seen police on 999 with alley lights switched on during the day
Easy to use if done properly and why oh why do we have to have ambers showing on a moving load that
1, I cant keep up with…
2, Is a ‘normal’ load…
3, The trailer is empty…
If you use ambers USE THEM PROPERLY 
Saw this last year, it came flying around one roundabout, then raced down to the next roundabout, went to go straight ahead, then last second it decided to try and go around the roundabout. It looked like it had been stolen, in fact the guy in the car behind us got out and said to the paramedic “what the hell are you playing at, you were driving it like you’d stolen it!”
Am pleased to say that nobody was hurt, there was no patient in the back, and the driver was just in shock.
Not sure about anyone else but the light towers used at the start of contraflows seem to hinder more than they help, thumping great beams of light straight in the eyes when you are trying to see where the heck the everchanging lane setup is heading this time round.
Not helped by the fact they are sometimes at the top of a long drag and blind oncoming drivers from 1000 yards away.
Gouls:
Not sure about anyone else but the light towers used at the start of contraflows seem to hinder more than they help, thumping great beams of light straight in the eyes when you are trying to see where the heck the everchanging lane setup is heading this time round.
Not helped by the fact they are sometimes at the top of a long drag and blind oncoming drivers from 1000 yards away.
Totally agree. I’ve spent many a minute approaching these with my main beam on thinking “he’ll give in before me”. 
disgo:
Bit like truck drivers who flash you in at night with main beam AND six roof lights, not necessary to have those switched on.
I prefer that over the ones who think it’s a competition who can have the shortest flash, you’re not sure if they’ve flashed or hit a bump
waddy640:
Perhaps they could reduce the intensity of the rear high level ones on ambulances when they are on the move.
Most if not all the LED should have high low button, the Highways Agency used to have a button to dim the lights at night and so did traffic pol well did in Kent anyhow.
they prob just do not switch them to Low level brightness
DieselDemon:
We are all aware of the need for emergency service vehicles to be well illuminated, but, I think the powers that be have gone over the top with the level of brightness of the blue lights. I am regularly blinded when overtaken by these vehicles at night. The new traffic lights I find are just as bad.
Anyone else suffer with this, or are my eyes just knackered.
last year i couldnt see the wide load that they were escorting up the M74 at beattock during the night. it took up 2 lanes and i couldnt see it due to the X5 behind it. they should have a dimmer switch for night time as they are a danger to the public