his headlight is not broken. Its a two piece light where one side is low beam and the other side is the high beam. The police officer who pulled you over saying that your light was out didnt know that the other was a high beam and once you told him it was he figured he'd say that he was going to give you a warning instead of manning up about being wrong.

I do believe there is some sort of mod you can do to where both lights will light up as low beam and you will have a dual filamant bulb for high beams. As for driving around with your high beams to be seen, as a driver myself i cant stand it. Even in the day time your high beam is really bright and causes me to look away. Whether its just me that does it i dont know. I know i have really sensitive eyes to light though. Just a thought.