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From: schley@mmm.UUCP (Steve Schley)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame
Subject: Re: Halogen headlights -- ARGH!
Message-ID: <181@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:33:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 14:33:29 1985
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Reply-To: schley@mmm.UUCP (Steve Schley)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
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Summary: 

In article <212@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes:
>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.  The use of Halogen lights increases
>the pattern allowing one to go faster, i.e. immproper
>speeds.  Halogen apologists know, deep in their hearts,
>that speed is the only reason for their use.  

You haven't got the foggiest idea of what is deep in my heart.  

To the point, there is no "proper distance".  My halogens illuminate
the same area as non-halogens, but that area is better illuminated.
Outside of this area, the beams fall off rapidly.

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

Bullshit.  Aligned properly, they won't.  Aligned improperly, all
headlamps are blinding.  It's not the kind of light, it's the alignment.

>Given someone with a slight
>case of night blindness (something close to 50% of all
>motorists) this can be a real problem.  Given that
>the alignment of headlights can change drastically
>when your Mother-in-law plops into the back seat, this
>can be dangerous to other motorists.  

Right.  See comment about alignment.

>Given that 98%
>of those with Halogen lights are twanks and don't
>give a damn about other drivers, everyone else on the
>road is in trouble.  

Isn't it nice to think you've found a scapegoat and ignorantly hang all
your gripes on them?  

>As for those damn extra lights
>hanging off the bumper, they should be popped with
>a ball pean hammer.  I have never seen a pair which were
>aligned properly.  They usually point up into the
>rear view mirror.  

Finally, we agree on something.

>All you folks defending Halogen
>lights should have them shoved up where the sun
>don't shine.

OOOOOHH!  Should I have turned them off first?

>T. C. Wheeler



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	Steve Schley

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