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[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

There's bright, (good) and well aimed with good optics (FAR better). I have  
insanely bright headlights in everything I have ever owned, and they don't 
annoy  anyone because they are PROPERLY aimed, and have excellent optics. 
Shooting the  light where it belongs is good for the driver, and NOT shooting it 
everywhere  else is good for all the OTHER drivers. 
 
In a message dated 1/7/2009 5:12:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk writes:

The  trouble with bright lights is that if you react to them by thinking 
'look  at that *sshole* with the bright lights - I am going to get lights 
even  brighter than them', we just end up in a lighting war where everyone 
gets  dazzled - a bit like the arms race!

Personally, I am always staggered  by how easy it is to drive a car with 
really, really rubbish headlights  (my Corvair then) as long as there are no 
ambient light sources, and no  bright lights coming the other way.

We don't actually need that much  light to be able to see at night. What we 
need is for that ambient level  of light not to change much, so that our eyes 
don't need to keep adapting.  So the less bright everyone's lights (and the 
background lighting) are,  the better it is for all of us. It would help if 
we all banned BMWs,  Mercedeses and Audis, for a start - every time one comes 
towards me I am  totally dazzled, whatever I am  driving.

Cheers

Alan


 
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