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Old 10-14-2014, 07:58 PM   #49
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Re: Headlight thread

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Originally Posted by skorpioskorpio View Post
Same thing that LED and HID lights do on the road, a lot of the "brighter" light you see is light bouncing back at you from light colored objects in your field of view.
Interesting point, and it reminded me of something I read decades ago -- reflective road signs in the US have a high amount of, well, reflectivity to compensate for the relatively low output of our (then) sealed-beam headlamps. Because Europeans were allowed much brighter headlamps, their road signs were not as reflective as ours.

Upon reflection (pun intended), I have noticed that running a good set of E-code lamps will result in too much glare back from many of our road signs, so there may be something to it.
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