What is up with lavender headlamps

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    Seen Amazon delivery trucks lately with lavender headlamps during the day. This is in the past month or so.

    Only Amazon and not all of them and in a variety of locations in about a 100 mile circle.

    Tried Google found nothing. Used to seeing a few "sort of" blue, headlamps on various cars and trucks over the years but not this and not so extreme

    Never seen them at night, but don't do much night driving.

    My driving is mostly backroads, which is where I mostly see this, though I doubt it has anything to do with it, but such roads do not make it easy to stop and ask a driver.
     
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    they sure sell a lot of them, but i can't find anything saying they are legal.
     
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    You have seen them on other than Amazon?

    They have to be illegal at night, don't they?
     
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    i haven't ever seen them on the road. google takes you to pages of people selling them, and images.
    but everything online says headlights have to be white.
    i have seen the bluish ones, seems like led in the wrong spectrum or something. we had that problem with christmas lights.
     
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    Cancer awareness month. off-shoot of breast cancer awareness - Pink/lavender ribbon.

    It's not legal at night in most jurisdictions.
     
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    Seriously doubt it. I checked all their corporate news releases, as well as news coverage back to 2023 before I posted and nothing. They would have certainly sent out news releases and would have gotten at least a few placements considering how understaffed news organizations are nowadays.

    Now, I did find one story about rare discoloration of a few LEDS to lavender but nothing about it being widespread or hitting Amazon.

    Even if it did, I can't believe Amazon would not be right on top of that.

    Yeah, anything they planned I am sure it would show up in some news release or story. Maybe they just got a bad truckload of parts in their service operation in this region.
     
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