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Re: flashing lights to pass

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From: Aardwolf
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
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Your Bud Wes wrote:
> Hrm. Fog lights are _usually_ yellow. Very few places in CA get a lot of
> fog. Most the "fog" lights are actually what the europeans call "driving"
> lights. You should be familiar with these, Don. These lights are not yellow.
> Adjusted correctly as not to blind other drivers, all they do is widen
> your field of view in the dark and make you easier to see.

No these are clear fog lights called "driving lights" by muddled advertising.  
"driving lights" are extra-bright "pencil beams" that shine brighter, 
farther down the road than brights, for use on very dark roads, or at high 
speeds.  Since they are obviously even more blinding than brights they also 
should never be used in traffic.  There is a third, new kind of "peripheral 
lighting", sort of a wide-angle, lower aimed lower intensity low beam, but 
this is fairly new and not offered by any auto mfr that I know of.

Aardwolf.
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From: Aardwolf <se1aard@itis.com>
Subject: Re: flashing lights to pass
Date: 1997/02/19
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