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HID
Posted by pseudo_v (more from pseudo_v) on Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:44:37
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

   I've seen several people here on the list server talk about/have HID
(high intensity discharge) lights.

I found this interesting:

<snip>

Are the brightest really the best? 
   
Government panel launches inquiry into super-bright headlights     
A new Audi with high-intensity xenon headlamps.
   
By Warren Brown
THE WASHINGTON POST 

June   Government auto safety regulators say they will open a
preliminary inquiry into whether a new generation of super-bright
headlights pose driving dangers, responding to hundreds of complaints from
consumers who say the lights produce blinding glare for oncoming traffic. 

 Older drivers need more light from their vehicles; they also need to see
less light coming from the vehicles driven by everyone else. 
 STEPHEN KRATZKE
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration          THE NATIONAL
HIGHWAY Traffic Safety Administration will issue a notice requesting
comment this summer to begin organizing data and anecdotes related to
consumer complaints about high-intensity discharge lights, or HIDs. 
       The preliminary investigation could lead to new rules governing the
design of HID lights or, according to some government sources, the NHTSA
ultimately could reexamine all rules affecting exterior lights on cars and
trucks. 
       The lights, first used in the United States on Fords 1996-model
Lincoln Mark VIII luxury coupe, now appear on a variety of German and
Japanese luxury cars, and on a few luxury sport-utility vehicles, such as
the Infiniti QX4.
       
TONS AND TONS OF COMPLAINTS
       The American Automobile Association, the nations largest auto
owners club, is also looking at the issue in hopes of avoiding a civil war
among its members. AAA members who have the lights love them. But that
opinion is not shared by many AAA members who have faced an HID-equipped
vehicle at night, association officials said. 

<snip>

see:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/416039.asp?bt=prgy


Bob Sypek
'78 99Turbo, sold at 149K for a....
'86 900S, 289K
TBA
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