Love the Amber headlights story! It reminds me of other stupid rules about headlights. In Europe most luxury cars automatically sense the amount of light and set brightness accordingly. That's illegal in the USA because the regulations require a bright and less bright seeing that can be manually toggled. So the actual choices are less safe than the best practices...
My car senses the incoming and sets to bright or less bright automatically, but has a manual override to comply with the letter of the law. I never touch the settings at all, because it's safer to trust the technology.
It's really crazy. Why trust the anti lock brakes, accelerator, blinkers, airbags, safety features... but not the headlights?. We can trust them to make cars that stop when they're supposed to, but not headlights that dim when they're supposed to?
I really get the feeling that most new regulations are just there for government revenue enhancement at this point. It's no longer about what's right. Just look at all the insane civil asset forfeiture laws on the books now.
I look at the new useless regulations as a way for government to expand itself, while at the same time create new useless jobs, instead of just handing out basic income which would let people dedicate their time to meaningful activities. And quite frankly I find it repulsive. Another aspect of new regulations is that they can be used to cripple competition and manipulate market shares.