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From: mab@hou4a.UUCP (Michael Brochstein)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: What are these new headlights?
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 09:06:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 09:06:10 1985
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	These new headlights can be found on a few cars this year and the number
will increase in coming years.  They are part of a modernization of the 
American (NHSTA) rules concerning headlights.  Previously only a few designs
were allowed to be used on American cars.  The modernization was to go
from a system of approving specific designs to one where performance criterea
was the issue.  The new rules allow different shapes as long as the light
is of certain brightness, spread, aiming ability, strength of front lense,etc.

	You can see these type lights on the Continental Mark 7 and on the new
VW Golf.  By making headlights flush, the aerodynamics of the car can be
improved.

	This is one rule change that the NHSTA has made recently which makes
sense.
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Michael Brochstein     AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel, NJ
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