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A dim-dip device operates the dipped beam headlights at between 10% and 20% of normal low-beam intensity. Running lights permitted as an alternative to dim-dip were required to emit at least 200 candela straight ahead, and no more than 800 candela in any direction.
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Xenon, or high-intensity discharge (HID), lighting provides brighter headlights and increases visibility of many peripheral objects (e.g. street signs and pedestrians) left in the shadows by standard halogen lighting. However, the bright headlights have given rise to complaints about glare. [10]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:15, 9 September 2009: 1,130 × 561 (9 KB): Cflm001 {{Information |Description={{en|1=Bird's-eye view of low beam light pattern for right-hand traffic, with long seeing range on the right and short cutoff on the left so oncoming drivers are not blinde
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Full-voltage vs. parking light headlamp on European-market Volkswagen, 2007. Depending on prevailing regulations and equipment, vehicles may implement the daytime-running light function by functionally turning on specific lamps, by operating low-beam headlamps or fog lamps at full or reduced intensity, by operating high-beam headlamps at reduced intensity, or by steady-burning operation of the ...
Headlight design in the U.S. changed very little from 1940 to 1983. [ 7 ] [ 16 ] In 1940, a consortium of state motor vehicle administrators standardized upon a system of two 7 in (178 mm) round sealed beam headlamps on all vehicles—the only system allowed for 17 years.