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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Color of the lights
Message-ID: <1039@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 09:38:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 09:38:36 1984
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Silberger has obviously never driven in a pea soup fog.  White
lights in a 6-foot visibility fog are useless.  All you get
is a big white, glaring wall in front of the car.  I am
talking about the type of fog that requires someone to walk
in front of the car to make sure they stay on the road.  Don't
laugh, I have seen this stuff along the coast of Washington.
The only way you could see the road without yellow fogs was to
have someone walk in front of the car.  Yellow fogs did, at
least, allow the driver to see the side of the road and the 
white line, plus about ten feet ahead.  Needless to say, your
speed was reduced to walking speed.  White lights produced a
blinding glare that gave no indication of where you were on
the road.
T. C. Wheeler