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HarryMann wrote:However, I maintain that a lot of these so-called safety improvements to cars are that in name only - and some authorities agree - they actually break the letter of the design and construction permits, and so I was told, some have been finangled through on a nod with a prototype design that is subsequently changed in production..
This bit aplies to syncro headlights, they're too high.
HarryMann wrote:This bit aplies to syncro headlights, they're too high.
Probably, but theres a corolloray to that; high head lights have to be angled down more, so although that rule was probably made for a close contact of the near-miss kind, at any sensible approach distance, they're less of a problem. I imagine Range Rovers are breaking the law with theirs then, which I dind are partcicularly a pain, as well as the big new Bentley, that are stupidly mad headlights, even in daylight.
Very low foglights under the bumper, that wiggle and jiggle about and have to aimed parrallel to the roadbecause they're so low, were always known to be a problem, when left on after the fog had cleared.
Maybe I didn't it make it clear what I seeas the main problem with Xenon lights.
Knowing that they are frigtheningly bright, the engineering argument allowing their use is that they can be designed to have a very sharp and accurate cut-off pattern in height and width.
Common sense then says that under normal passing traffic situations, you see the glare but don't get the full-power beam in the eyes.
But the theory is naive, in that roads are not smooth, far from it, and in this country they are also filled with humps, pointing those blighters right where supposedly all that high-tech design shouldn't allow them to be.
Then we have the problem that that they're so blinking good to drive behind, drivers seem to thuink it Ok to bang them on full-beam even for a few hundred yards between other cars, because they've probably been blinded by the last one to go past them... where is this crazy lack of thought ind esign taking us -or common today maybe, pure laziness?
A lot are badly setup in the first place, I would guess.
then there's the character of light (a higher radiation temp blue) which is subjectively more disturbing and blinding than traditional Tungsten temperature light radiation.
I always had a problem with other cars with HID's until i had one myself.
didn't realise it came with a lecture as well.
