>>That's why shooting glasses, driving glasses, etc., are yellow-tinted, >>to improve contrast (by blocking blue almost 100%). That's also why >>foglights tend to be tinted yellow (even regular headlights in France, >>iirr, are mandatorily yellow; someone correct me if that changed) >>because that improves contrast in fog, etc.
>The actual motivation for the yellow headlights is because the >French military requested it (in 1936), in order to easily >distinguish between French cars and others. The fact remains Hmm, interesting. >that with modern headlights and filtering techniques, they blind >oncoming drivers significantly less, while not reducing what you >can see. True enough. I rarely have problems with yellow foglights unless they're those 150W off-road lights that some fools with "off-road" soovs aim straight ahead. Hey, you never know when some bear will jump out from behind a mailbox or something right in the middle of the city, right? >The law was abrogated in 1992, in order to comply with EU >regulations; both white and yellow are legal now (and since all >other countries require white, all manufacturers deliver white >on new cars). Curiosity got the better of me and I goggled around, and yep, that's why. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
