DAZZLE OF HEADLIGHTS.
dimming a. failure. TIP DOWNWARDS THE SOLUTION. (Special to Daily Times.) • WELLINGTON, December 4. Asked whether he considered the dimming of headlights a safety measure the chief traffic officer, Mr R.. 8. Drake, summed up the position as follows: Ihe eye cannot adjust itself in a second, and it is in that second that the accident occurs. “Anything that is left to the courtesy of the driver is a ‘wash-out.’ for, though nine will be courteous, the tenth will not. The only practical way in which a dazzle can be overcome, in my opinion, is to tip the headlight down so that the divergent rays-the strays from the parabolic reflector—do not rise sufficiently to confuse the oncoming driver.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 10
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121DAZZLE OF HEADLIGHTS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 10
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