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From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Halogen headlights -- ARGH!
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 13:18:48 EDT
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  Indented excerpts from: pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 (T.C. Wheeler)
  The obvious reason for folks using Halogen lights is
  to be able to go faster at night.  Normal headlights
  have a pattern which allows one to see a proper distance
  at normal speeds.

Although I suppose what "proper" and "normal" signifies
may vary from person to person, my impression is that your
"safe" speed increases from maybe 40 mph to 50 mph.

  Halogen apologists know, deep in their hearts,
  that speed is the only reason for their use.

Actually, I really do like to see where I'm going - regardless
of my speed.

  No matter what the alignment of the beams is, Halogens tend
  to blind the oncoming motorist.

I've seen many complaints here on net.auto about this, but
I have yet to have anyone flash their lights at me in annoyance
over my halogens seeming excessively bright.  Maybe my headlights
are aligned correctly.

  Given that 98% of those with Halogen lights are twanks and
  don't give a damn about other drivers...

As halogens become more common, there will probably be more and
more people who have them and don't even know it.  I wonder how
these people would react to being called "twanks" (whatever that
is).

I also wonder why T.C. Wheeler, a strong advocate of the 55 limit,
could take such offense to halogens.  After all, the right to use
them was handed to us by the same authority which gave us the
55 limit - which some net.auto readers seem to view as sacred writ.
How can the sacred forces of the government ever be wrong?

While I haven't checked too carefully, I also suspect that all of
the halogen critics live in dense urban areas.  For some of these
people, it might come as a surprise that the vast amount of this
country is wilderness - including New York and New Jersey.  There
is a very real chance that people who have equipped their cars
with halogen lights did it so they could drive safely on the
backroads of New Jersey or New York.

-- "The Model Citizen" Mike^Z
   Zaleski@Rutgers   [ allegra, ihnp4 ] pegasus!mzal