we could only hope it was that logical,...
sadly, it doesn't seem like it was ever only about projecting a
good beam pattern (note the poor beam pattern control and high glare
exhibited by so many Amerikun cars lights!). otherwise we would have
been able to use all the better-quality sealed-bulb H4-style lights in
the US that the rest of the world has had for decades already,... (oddly
enough, lights of the same technology were allowed for use here by
Motorcycles; especially odd when you consider that motos tip in normal
cornering, rendering the same horizontal cut-off patterns largely
irrelevant.)
sorry, but we're probably subject to the laws that say something
like: "shall be marked with the symbol "DOT". bottom line; if those Euro
lamps some of us like so much have lenses that don't have a DOT logo
molded into them, they're not legal.
cheers!
e
On 19/Dec/11 08:40, Allan Streib wrote:
ernest breakfield<erne...@backyardengineering.org> writes:
but odds are that technically, Euro lamps aren't legal at all in
the US at the Federal level.
That definitely used to be the case, though I wonder how the regs have
kept up with the new lights such as the HID, xenon, etc that are on
newer high end cars. Surely they are not projecting the old DOT
sealed-beam patterns?
Allan
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