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- From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
- Subject: Re: Headlights and driving lights
- Organization: What you won't find on my desk.
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:46:57 GMT
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- Sayeth bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw):
- $In <i3qmXB10w165w@major.panix.com> dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
- $>You many be confusing driving lights with fog lights. Driving lights
- $>are, indeed, high-intensity lights pretty much as you describe. What you
- $>see most of the time in those low-bumper installation is actually fog
- $>lamps, which spread their light out wide and direct most of it down at
- $>the ground close to the car.
- $Usually, the fog lights have amber lenses, but I'll agree that many
- $of these new styling jobbies are not *real* driving lights.
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- Around here, amber fog lights are rare, and with more and more
- car manufacturers building white fog lights into their bumpers on
- high-end equipment packages, they're getting more and more rare.
- A typical car in this part of the world (Toronto) with added lights
- has white fogs.
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