> And generally speaking out in the country, there won't be pedestrian foot traffic, so it's not as if you need the bright lights for them.

Animals, specifically deer. That said, you can use brights when no other cars are nearby, and when there is a car coming its worth a few seconds of extra risk to not blind the other guy and put him at risk.

> its worth a few seconds of extra risk

There really isn’t that much increase; when there’s another driver then you both have the combined the light output of both headlights, coming from two different directions.

Once we figure our deer wasting disease, we need to start the breeding program for reflectorized deer. It'll solve a lot of problems.

Why does nobody think that if these lights are dazzling oncoming drivers, they are also dazzling these precious deer and pedestrians people keep saying they need to see so well.