Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Aiming fog lights -- correctly Message-ID: <596@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 22:22:55 EST Article-I.D.: aluxe.596 Posted: Wed Jan 2 22:22:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 07:34:58 EST References: <3028@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 16 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh > ... following them could create a traffic hazard and get you a ticket. > Not only will such mis-aiming partially defeat the legitimate pur- > pose of the fog lights, but it will also cause the lights to glare > VERY brightly into the eyes of other drivers. > ... the fog lights are supposed to > be aimed so that the top edge of the high-intensity zone -- measured > on a screen 25 feet in front of the car -- is 4 inches below the > LEVEL OF THE CENTERS OF THE LIGHTS THEMSELVES. Congratulations!!!!! I hope that there are at least 2 cars on the road with fog lights that are used for fog rather than just to blind oncoming cars. I Pennsylvania 99% of the cars with fog lights use them with the headlights in any kind of weather and never get them focused so they don't blind others.