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Old 07-18-2002, 09:58 AM
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Default *in Scooby Doo voice* ARRR?!
Check this out... Yesterday's USATODAY<ul><li><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2002/07/18/hid-blindness.htm">HID Headlamps... Better Lighting?</a></li></ul>
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"not as great as probably expected" now there is a convincing argument
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hids could easily illuminate further, just a reflector tweak mmm, pencil beams.
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Default Distance of illumination is an issue of headlight optic beam pattern than technology...
Anybody can do "research" these days. :-/
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bunch of pussies...old people shouldn't be allowed to drive anyways!
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Default They can have my Xenons when they pry them from my, cold dead hands.
Or they could give $50 to a car thief after I park my car in New Jersey. :-P
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Default i read an article couple weeks ago..
it said NYPD is gonna have new patrol cars with Xenons...forgot where I read it..gotta find it out .
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Uh oh. That means we can't just race all cars with Xenons now.
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haha...yeah that might be cop cars (w/ xenons) tailgating you !
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Default Yep, it's a shame how for many it seems emotions and a sample size of one matter more than facts :(
"Doctor! I stared at these lights the whole time and I couldn't see for a minute!"

Doctor: Wow, hids are horrible!

Or something like that, not very creative right now.


Last week I had a Navigator with hids give _me_ high beams, he flashed once then left them on. I almost turned around to follow the guy.. I was below his cutoff because well, it's a truck, so I was already getting a lot of glare, pissed me off. I know my cutoff was below his bumper. My friend on a motorcycle I was following said my lights never glared for him. Lincoln guy is probably a HID hater that doesn't even know he has them.

Speaking of anyone doing research, read this <a href="http://www.edmunds.com/news/innovations/articles/43030/article.html">tripe</a> guy can't even really differentiate between "hid" and those fake "xenon" bulbs...



oh well.
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