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RE: Re: Re: HID lights, are these for real?

To: "laura.g@141.com (laura gharazeddine)" <laura.g@141.com (laura
Subject: RE: Re: Re: HID lights, are these for real?
From: "alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" <alemen@mail.ftconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:56:47 -0500
Worst yet that I have come across is the break down truck with his flood/spot 
lights pointing straight back on to car he is picking up or working on. It's 
like having a couple of headlights straight on. I am sure they use a coupel of 
hundred watts there.

Alan

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From:  Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:23:03 -0700
To: herald1200@home.com, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Re: HID lights, are these for real?



> Another fun non-auto blinding device is those temporary construction warning
> barricade arrows- the ones which light up and serve to show the traffic a
> moving arrow... They have built in, two settings- bright for day, and dim
> for night, so as not to blind. However, often the crew using them sets them
> up wrong, and you get blinded. And I really hate construction lights set to
> illuminate which also serve to blind drivers.
> 
> And this from a guy with good sight and night vision!

I know what you mean! And here, in Orange County, I guess they have more of 
those signs than they have use for! There's one on the 405 that's been there 
for a year warning to "reduce speed, bump ahead"-there was never really a bump 
to begin with, and the work has been finished on the road for months! You can 
tell who's new to the area-they're the ones who put there brakes on in the 
middle of the freeway!

There's several around town warning of closures that have come and gone-lit 
around the clock! So annoying!

And those construction lights-to come out of pitch blackness into a blinding 
white light-I think I've died!

Laura G. 

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