Here's an article in USAToday about people complaining about HID headlights. The best part:

"Another Society of Automotive Engineers paper tackles headlight glare and its side issues, warning that 'agitation over the effect of glare caused by powerful headlamps has gradually increased until we are threatened with drastic legislation.'

That one's by engineer Alden L. McMurtry

 

I like my HID lights.

besides, halogen bulbs blinds my eyes when it's in right angle. And why do you look at bright lights and blind yourself? (fireflies?)

cheers,

 

I think most HID equipped cars have a horizontal plane in which the light does not go above.. like in Europe.

I dont understand why people just dont stop staring into the lights!

 

Come towards the light............

 

I don't think HID's are the problem. I think it's people with misaimed headlights, or who drive with their brights on into incoming traffic.

 

The problem is not HIDs per se. The problem is that our cars have a relatively firm suspension and when we hit even small bumps on the road it sends our beams rocketing skywards.

In combination with the fact that that our HID beams are much brighter than halogens this is a real nuisance to other drivers.

 

I'd much rather have an HID car behind me than some SUV. I swear it's must be in the owners handbook never to turn off the fog lights either. I had a woman behind me the other night with her fogs and brights on. She followed me for about 5 miles and I couldn't get away from here due to traffic. I finally had to pull some crazy pull-off, back on to get behind her and flash her. By that point though, my head was killing me and my eyes hurt for about an hour.

 

Complaints about HIDs?
They might look brighter, but how are they dangerous?
SUVs are a lot more dangerous by being on the road.
If they can take all the SUVs off the highways, then I would have no complaint about the complaints on HID.

 

For those who want to end this madness once and for all, I'll be starting a group buy on S2000 acetylene-arc lamp kits .

Ted

p.s. Can anyone find a good source for side-marker candles?

 

Despite trying to irritate other drivers with my HIDs, I have not succeeded. I have never had another driver "flash" me to complain about my lights at night.

IMHO the the cause of the bad press is people putting illegal blue bulbs in their headlights or using illegal 100-watt bulbs in place of their stock 55-watt ones