. (funny that they changed
> these laws a few years later - they must have realized blinking orange was
a
> more effective signal)
Those blasted amber rear turn signals are often too bright and blinding, and
I wish they'd go away permanently... Along with those stupid "blue"
headlights they use now. Awful things- often nearly drive off the road when
they're oncoming. And I'm only 36, with perfect day and night vision! At
least red rear turn signals are better suited to the night adaption
properties of the human eye.
(As a side note, I have also been blinded by all the lights on emergency
equipment- what is intended to be a safety item has become, through over
extension of the principle, a hazard! Between the "takedown" lights on the
front, the wig-wag headlights, and the strobes all around, I lose night
vision going past! I have resorted to combat night vision- I close my
dominant eye till I'm past, and then reopen it, thus retaining night vision
to some extent. I passed a local fire chief I know one night as he responded
the other direction to a call, and his takedown lights actually were
brighter than the reds! I wondered who the idiot with the off road lights
blazing was, until he was just about on top of me, and I dimly saw the red
rotators and heard the siren. MIchigan State Police up until a few years
ago, and possibly still, maintained a four beam rotating lamp on their
vehicles. When questioned why they didn't go to the fancier light bars, they
reply was that "They work, don't they? Why change?")
Scott
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