GLARING HEAD LIGHTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17068, 28 July 1917, Page 8

GLARING HEAD LIGHTS

SUGGESTION FOR REFORM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 27. On tho queston of glaring headlights, says the annual report of the New Zealand Automobile Union, most of the town authorities have prepared, or aro preparing, by-laws prohibiting their use, and it has come to tho knowledge of the secretary of this union that soma country authorities aro seeking to limit the use of headlights in country districts. It is generally considered that from 300 to 500 feet ahead' is a sufficiently safe range for a beam of light when travelling on country roads In tho cose, however, of two cars meeting, neither one tan propexly see tho other in the glare of each other's light, and it would seem that some arrangement must bo made' by which this difficulty can Ibe overcome. The general practice throughout America is to permit in country districts the use of as powerful headlights as motorists desire, relying on tho almost universal custom of switching them down when two cars apprroacsh dose to one another. This would appear to bo an csoellent practice, and one to bo strongly recommended to the members of the affiliated associations.