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Subject:Re: CHEAP Headlamp upgrade?
From:Chris Mills
Date:Fri, 3 May 2002 10:35:01 -0500

>1. Adopt the e-code standards for headlights that Europe has used for decades.
>
>2. Require the same stringent glare standards for HID lamps as for
>the e-code lamps.
>
>3. Consider all "driving" or "auxiliary" white lights to the front as
>high-beams and disallow them under conditions similar to high beams.
>(This is already the case in Canada, I believe.)
>
>4. Disallow blue (or any other color) replacement bulbs for all headlights.

And maybe enforce the laws concerning tinted lighting covers. You can see
as well and can't be seen as well. I've come very close to running over one
of these yahoos 'cause I couldn't see his taillights in the daytime...

Grumble...grumble...grumble...
Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE">
Cookeville, Tennessee

ICQ# 5944649
scm9985@tntech.edu

'78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power)
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