That's right, European cars had the much brighter and better designed
headlights for years before the U.S. As I recall, halogen lights were
illegal in this country at that time, essentially because there were no
U.S. manufacturers making them. Eventually Sylvania, I think, started
making them and all of a sudden it was a good idea, and legal.
A nice little example of corporations holding back something that would
benefit the public because it did not benefit a U.S. corporation.
Jordan
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Any typical tungsten bulb suffers the same problem over it's life,
it's output goes down. The neat advantage of halogen bulbs are that
they do not diminish brightness as they get older. Therefore all US
cars now have (which our European friends had for a long time) Halogen
bulbs.
Remember when Square Headlights came into American cars? It was a
rule change from the Feds that allowed it, even though Europeans had
them for years before we did.
Stewart
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