DAZZLE LIGHTS.

Southland Times, Issue 20675, 22 December 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

DAZZLE LIGHTS.

A NEW INVENTION. London, October 2. Are we at last on the eve of a satisfactory solution to the dazzle problem Is it with the glare eliminated—by purely opwith. theg lare eliminated—by purely optical methods? (asks a motoring writer). Had you asked me these questions a week ago I would have answered, “I’m afraid it’s impossible.” But for the last few days I have been trying a new model American car which is equipped with lamps which appear to achieve the impossible. It would be foolish to assume that these new American lamps are the final word in the line of development concerned. But even as they are to-day—a standard type to be freely imported in the coming season—they revolutionize one’s conceptions of what is possible in this direction. In practice they give you a long beam of light—which is absolutely cut off (as with a knife) at one’s waist-line. And that beam stays like that and acts like that whether you look at it from five yards in front or 100 yards. It would be an exaggeration to say that the lightp rovided is equal to oua: ordinary

powerful headlight, but on the other hand the light is quite adequate for normal night driving conditions. If the amount of light can be slightly increased without ill-affecting the cutting off of the upper part of the beam I should say that the dazzle problem would be substantially solved. Even in their present stage of development I. consider that these new lamps constitute a marked improvement on anything of the type which has been previously produced. They go far beyond what has generally been considered possible.