[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1038 Headlights

["George Schweikle" <schweikg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

I agree with your comments, and am also frustrated with the current practice
of drivers leaving their driving / fog lights burning at all times. In my
area, this is done by pickup trucks and SUV's, and almost every car with
auxilliary lights. The truck / SUV practice is particularly annoying since
all of their lights are mounted higher than real cars. Some of these lights
are too dim to really bother anything but others are much brighter than the
low beams that common courtesy assumes should be seen by oncoming drivers.
These lights don't seem to have ANY cut-off to their pattern and I have
wondered if their design is covered under any DOT regulation. Finally, I
have seen newspaper accounts of greatly increased complaints to the NHSTA of
excessive headlight brightness on some of the new cars (probably the eyeball
searing projector beams, or whatever they are...)

Alfa content. My practice is to never cause an oncoming driver to see my
high beam lights.

George Schweikle
Lexington, KY

>
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:04:52 -0800
> From: "Joe Cantrell" <agiyo@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] nukulur (sic W) headlights
>
>     From time to time, the brighter headlights thread reappears,
frequently
> with the observation that when they are "aligned properly" they offend no
> one.  That may be true somewhere, but not on this earth.
>
>     Yes, the cut-offs are very sharp and the lights, very bright.  In a
> world with basketball-court-flat roads and every headlight the same
height,
> it'd work.  But the world I drive in is anything but flat, often rainy,
and
> the wet black night sucks lumens out of my lights before they know they
have
> left the alternator.  Plus, the Spider is lower than all but skateboards.
> Extremely bright headlights are blinding.  Rationalize as you will, they
are
> blinding under many real-life situations.
>
>     Now tell me, do you really want the person directly in front of you
> driving into a pool of ocular black?  What if you just had a problem, just
> climbed out your driver's door, and the guy coming at you is blinded by
your
> testosterlights?
>
>     Or what if you were simply someone who considered what your presence
> cost the thousands of people you encounter on the road?
>
> Peace,
> Joe Cantrell
> Wet, black Portland about 16 hours/day, these days
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