Back in the 70’s I used to do that sort of thing with four Cibie lights on the front of my Opel GT. Two were halogen pencil beams. You really didn’t want to come up on me with your brights on.
It is a cool “power thing”. On my bike I’ve had guys blast really loud horns a couple of times. One time it almost made me go down. :)
I had some ‘nice’ lights on my ‘96 Jetta.
(Until January this year when some jerk took the nose off my car when he ran a red turn arrow.)
People would turn their brights on, then immediately dim down because they had speckles in their eyes.
Then they’d wonder what my lights were.
Well, they were the stock ‘96 brights, just aimed where they were supposed to be.