On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Jordman wrote:
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.
However, the downside of this are the too-bright headlights. I am sure that you have seen plenty of these dangerous, blindingly bright headlamps on newer cars. Indeed, there are various initiatives to cause these new headlamps to be toned down in their brightness levels. And, no, it is not caused by poor aiming of the headlamps. It is the nature of the light itself. There is, it has been determined, a "sexy," mostly male oriented fascination among many buyers of new cars to have lots of bright lights for show purposes.
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