I've long thought that 123 had marginal taillights...

Curt

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  On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Jim Cathey via 
Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:   >
> A 21 watt lamp is hardly blinding, much less four of them.

The whole idea is to increase visibility.
>

I find two of them ample.  (The second one is there for redundancy.)  They
are _highly_ visible already.  So, 2x is not blinding?  How about 4x?  10x?
 100x?  More lumens equals more visibility, right?  Technically true,
but... what are you _not_ seeing because you can no longer see/notice
anything but that one car in front of you?  Deer?  Road hazards?
Pedestrians?  Children and/or pets?

I have been behind a number of higher-end newer cars recently that seem to
have gone overboard.  Especially the ones that really like high-flux
point-source LED emitters instead of a more diffuse, larger emitter of
similar lumens.  (Like a lensed 1157, for example.)  Once you're above the
threshold of noticing the light, more is NOT better.  Point sources are NOT
better.

It's a real pet peeve of mine, the lighting arms race.  It began with the
HID headlights.

-- Jim
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