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If a transport truck can have lights at a reasonable height and angle that don't blind me, so can a standard pick up truck. Many transports actually have their lights mounted lower than pick up trucks and full size SUVs.
Transport trucks don't "need" super-high ground clearance the way 4x4s do. In order to get a vehicle like this to have headlights at a reasonable height, they'd need to be mounted on the axle, LOL:
(Or vehicles modified that extensively would have to stop being street legal; that would work too.)
Edit: to be clear, this was never intended to be a defense of lifted 4x4s, only an example of just how incompatible their headlight heights can be and how difficult it could be to fix that.
Well then I guess a hot take... Those vehicles shouldn't be street legal at night with those modifications unless you have some sort of alternative light system you can bolt on that brings the height down.
Plus theere are no fenders or mudflaps on that one. Which is illegal in some places as there is nothing to prevent rocks or other debris from being thrown around by the tires.
Aside from the "at night" part -- I'm not sure it makes sense to make the vehicle non-street-legal only part of the time when the necessary equipment is missing entirely -- I already agreed:
And almost nobody driving on public roads needs that kind of road clearance either.
Yeah, the question is not how difficult it is to do, but why that would be street legal. Of course enjoy your toys: vehicles like that are great fun. However if you can’t meet the headlight or bumper requirements to be street legal, it just shouldn’t be street legal. Keep your toy on the trail
The headlights could have been located lower on the grill where the orange turning signals are currently located.
Guess I should've found a pic with even bigger tires and even less front grille/bumper! (I would've used this as a better example, but I'm pretty sure it's at the point where the guy trailers it to the off-road trail rather than driving it on the street.)
But seriously though, even on the Jeep pictured, even just the turn signal height is probably about the same as the roof of a Miata.