Man, these HID headlamps get brighter and brighter! It seesm to me, that when they firstappeared, they had a distinctly violet hue-now, they seem greenish. Also, they keep getting brighter-I have a self-darkening rear view mirror, and even with that, they really burn your eyeballs. I wonder if the US DOT has been testing these things-perhaps they are too bright?
Are they the things that in the dark , from the wrong angle, appear in your rear vision mirror to be about the size of golf balls and make the other car seem much further away than it is?
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