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Therefore, LED and HID lights are legal with a few stipulations: They are an OEM feature on a vehicle. In other words, they came standard with a vehicle and are not aftermarket parts. If they are an aftermarket upgrade, they must be white (between 5000k-6000k) and not too high or low to the ground.
HOW CAN YOU TELL IF A LIGHT IS DOT COMPLIANT? Check your lighting for an "SAE" identification code - it is usually located or molded into the plastic on your light.
LED headlights are not only legal, most new cars have them now. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has done the research and determined it is impossible to produce HID conversion kits that meet federal regulations. Federal guidelines set standards for how bright headlights can be.
Ing to federal guidelines (specifically Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108), the brightest your headlights can be is 3,000 lumens, but this can be written a number of ways: 3,000K, 3,000LM, 3,000 candelas, etc.
Headlights that register 3,000K or 3,000LM are the brightest headlights you can legally in your car. Anything beyond that level is typically against the law and you run the risk of blinding another driver and causing an accident.