Date:         Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:36:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
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Say what?  True fog lights are mounted low, have a strong top cutoff
and are designed to illuminate the road surface and not the fog
particles in front of your face. (Hence the top cutoff.)

As to your leaving your high beams on Until the "offending" vehicle
passes... well Andrew, that makes you the deliberate offender. Not only
is it, as you stated  "downright dangerous", it's downright stupid. Now
you have two vision impaired drivers heading for each other at highway
speeds.  Brilliant solution. (No pun intended.)
On Saturday, December 17, 2005, at 12:03  PM, Automatic digest
processor wrote:

> Date:    Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:48:10 +1300
> From:    Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> Subject: Re: Pzwo lower grille foglights NLA
>
> I second that. Some so-called foglights (tack-on aftermarket marker
> lights) are not vision-affecting, but true foglights ARE. They are
> aligned parallel with the road surface, NOT dipped, and have no top
> beam cutoff. They are designed for use in fog ONLY. Not ads
> additional headlights.
>
>> And, the thing is if one flashes their highbeams at the guy with his
>> fog
>> lights on in the SUV, or I dare say Vanagon--even breifly in a
>> friendly reminder
>> kind of way--he or she often feels the need to BLAST his or her high
>> beams
>> at the victim to prove to the victim he or she doesn't have  his or
>> her high
>> beams on-- this, causing a worse visibility condition than  the one
>> that began
>> the whole misguided communication thing. Then it leads to  road rage.
>> And
>> before you know it there's a murder. (I'm speaking from an LA
>> perspective.)
>
> I have taken to just putting my high-beams on and leaving them there
> until the offending vehicle has passed by.