Date:         Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:14:12 -0400
Reply-To:     "Chris S." <MrVolkswagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Chris S." <MrVolkswagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tail lamp upgrades
Comments: To: Cotsford@AOL.COM
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> This is precisely why the DOT limits the wattage to tail lights.
> You are not supposed to burn the retinas of following motorists when you
put
> your brakes on.

Perhaps I ought to inform my local politician about the idiotic new flashing
LED third brake lights?  You haven't seen bright until you are parked behind
an SUV at a dark intersection at two in morning with one of those puppies
strobing you at eye level.  It's enough to bring on an LSD flashback, and
I've never done LSD.  Oh, wait, that was the politician's wife driving the
SUV.

The point of having retina-burning brake lights in my Vanagon is that they
sit so low, most people tend to look right over them.  I need to extra
wattage to get noticed, but not to the point of creating any hallucinatory
distress.

Chris,

'85 Westy.