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Maladjusted headlights are worse, my own car has a dial for adjusting headlight pitch for when towing, and my wife constantly adjusts them "up" because she can "see better", I think this is also endemic.

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Shouldn't towing increase the light angle upwards? So adjustment should only allow you to drop the headlights from their safe level? Seems a manufacturer error or lack of regulation that people can choose to angle them past a standard safe level.

There are a number of factors that can affect the beam angle. If you're not towing and you've only got passengers in the front and nothing in the boot or in the back, the headlights will point lower than normal and you'll need to adjust them up.

Does it help her see better? If so, then how is that the incorrect setting? Perhaps the real problem is the failure of roads to be properly lit. Obviously in rural areas, that’s a challenge and not always necessary, but most people here seem to not be talking about rural areas. In France, it seems that they obsess so much over global warming that the streetlights are pretty much worthless. Which makes the need to “see better” so much more acute.

Brighter or better positioned street lights would solve a lot of these issues.

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