I always wonder what they think when an identical car comes towards them at night

I think all the cars I've had have had separate switches for front and rear foglights.

The sportier versions of the Pug 205 came with twin driving lamps set low in the front valance and switched with the main beam. They were called 'driving lamps' but worked fairly well as foglamps.

I do like my super bright LED headlings, like the Xenon headlights on previous car, proper and quality illumination of the road ahead (especially picking out the road signs and roadside reflectors) is a useful aid to safer driving.

To you, yes. But to facing drivers, no - as has been suggested above. However cleverly the beam cutoff has been managed, uneven road surfaces and humps negate all the good work. There is little defence against overpowering headlamps except getting a car with stronger ones, so things just get steadily worse for everyone.

"(I may not be popular with this comment!!) I find the best way to deal with lights in the rear view mirror is to drive faster .... with the expectation of a greater gap developing between the two vehicles, of course useless if the other party has high bean on ...."

Most cars now have rear view mirrors that have two positions, one for normal driving and one when a tailgating car following has headlights that are just too bright. Where there are no streetlights, and a car is tailgating as described, the two position mirror is a good safety feature. For those who do not know (not the BRs) just move the mirror handle until the mirror dips the light; some you move it forward and some you move move it back.

Is there anything we can do about headlights that are just too bright ? With the numerous regulations governing road use there must be something, possibly in the MOT, about headlights. There is a stretch of road that I travel on where there is a right turn on a slight hill, left turn for oncoming cars. Ordinary headlights are OK but I'm often dazzled by superbright headlights.

"(I may not be popular with this comment!!) I find the best way to deal with lights in the rear view mirror is to drive faster .... with the expectation of a greater gap developing between the two vehicles, of course useless if the other party has high bean on ...."

Most cars now have rear view mirrors that have two positions, one for normal driving and one when a tailgating car following has headlights that are just too bright. Where there are no streetlights, and a car is tailgating as described, the two position mirror is a good safety feature. For those who do not know (not the BRs) just move the mirror handle until the mirror dips the light; some you move it forward and some you move move it back.

Is there anything we can do about headlights that are just too bright ? With the numerous regulations governing road use there must be something, possibly in the MOT, about headlights. There is a stretch of road that I travel on where there is a right turn on a slight hill, left turn for oncoming cars. Ordinary headlights are OK but I'm often dazzled by superbright headlights.

DRLs either switch off or dim when the headlights are switched on. As far as I know the only way to get both fully on at once on a standard car is to hold the (main beam) headlights on with the flasher switch on the indicator stalk.

It's possible that the car behind you was doing exactly that, along with switching the front foglights on to "make a point" to tell you that you'd done something wrong (in their view), such as driving slower than they want to go, or not owning an Audi.