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From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame
Subject: Re: Halogen headlights -- ARGH!
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 16:26:51 EDT
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Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems seems to have written:
> 
> There is no reason (other than a desire to be a public SOB) for a driver
> to equip his car with headlights that destroy the night vision of any
> driver who has the misfortune to encounter him.

On newer cars the MANUFACTURER equips the car with quartz-hals, sometimes
as standard equipment.

> > obnoxiously bright lights staring you in the face, turn on your high
> > beams.
> 
> I usually do that, but anyone dumb enought to use the damned things is
> apparently too dumb to get the hint.  Ususally all they do is turn on
> their high beams and demonstrate their canine ancestry.

On a darkened road, about 5-10% of the oncoming people will flick highbeams at
me thinking I have mine on. I *briefly* flash them with mine, and usually
they resign themselves to coping with my headlights. Occasionally some pond
scum will turn on his brights and keep them on, as if to prove some point.
This accomplishes no purpose, of course. Quartz-hals improve night vision,
and it's a good thing that they have DOT blessing now. I plan to keep mine.

I find that the folks who seem to object to my lights have weak headlights on
their cars, The contrast is too much for them to deal with (they think.)

A side note: drinking drivers are sensitive to bright light, due to dialated
pupils. They also have short tempers. This is why `guerrilla tactics' can
prove so dangerous. If they want to blind you, gaze down the right side of
the road and ride it out.

 One who has Quartz-hals should be especially careful to aim them properly.
This is probably what gives these otherwise improved headlights a bad name.

-Neal
-- 
"whaddya mean there were bullet-holes in his mirror..."
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