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LEDs legally have to be self-adjustable at least in EU. Your mandatory inspection will usually catch it if that system doesn't work.
The bigger problem is people throwing LEDs in halogen housings. It's not the LED's fault. The other big problem in the US at least I reckon, is having vehicles that are way too tall, so their headlights, while hopefully dipped properly, are above a normal driver's eye level.
Well, your first point is great except we don't have yearly inspections on vehicles in North America or anything. Inspections happen when cars are registered, then never again until ownership changes hands and it needs to be registered by a new owner.
Add that to the fact that inspections are done by mechanics, and they don't generally give a shit about it, and it's a recipe for failure. Last time I got a used car inspected, the mechanic looked at the car through the window and said "is that it?" I replied "yeah", and he went through the list and checked all the normal stuff without glancing at the car again. So most inspections here are void from the get go.
The second point is valid and a design problem which I covered previously.
I can say that, at least in Texas, we require annual inspections as a condition of yearly vehicle registration. We just don't test for the impact of headlights on incoming traffic, because... TxDOT (and the Texas legislature/governor by extension) doesn't consider it worth regulating.
Mechanics test what is on the regulatory code. Add headlight brightness to the list and they'll test for that, too. This isn't an unsolvable problem by any stretch.
Well, Texas DID requre annual inspections. This is the last year. On Jan 2025, annual inspections will no longer be required, although, some counties will still require emissions testing, and you still have to pay the fee.