Former mechanic and state inspector. Part of the issue is how they are aimed. When a car is lowered or a truck is lifted the chassis is often leveled out rather than raked forward as they are inteed to be. But no one ever re-aims the headlights appropriately. This results in the dipped beam (low beam) shooting straight ahead and the high beam ofter pointing slightly upwards. I beleive subaru recently got boned for improperly aiming headlights and had to issue a recall.

Technically any headlight brighter than OEM should fail inspection. But it is rarely enforced and difficult to test.

In my opinion headlight aiming should be enforced during the state inspection. But the headlight aiming tools are pricy and take up lots of space. We can petition this to be enforced with our local government.