Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 14:24:17 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: Night vision trick (was "E-codes w/ 9004 bulbs?")
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Dunno abiout one eye shut vs two eyes open, bue years ago some fool came
at me with lights on bright and refused to dimm them. Near blinded me.
Even if lights are dimmed there is alwasy a black blank void directly in
front of you on your side of the road as the oncoming vehicle gets to
you and as it passes. There is a momentary period when you cannot see
what is there. Just blackness. Then you pop out of the zone, your lights
are effective again and hopefully nothing has gotten out in the road in
that few seconds.
Well, I wasn't so lucky. A black angus stepped into the road in that
black void and when that other vehicle passed, and I popped out of that
momentary void I found myself two feet from broadsiding that black
angus. Slammed into the sugcker going 60 mph, and it flipped up on the
hood ove my car, slide into the windshield shattering it and somehow
getting a hoof and leg through the glass. I lost control and skidded
across the road spinning around and slamming head-on into an embankment
with the cow still on the hood, unable to get free because of the stuck
hoof and leg. The head-on impact into the embankment was enough to throw
the cow off the car. In that few seconds, the cow was totalled, my
station wagen was totalled, and I and my family were damn near totalled.
Scared hell out of me. Fortuately no one was hurt except the cow and the
car. Wife got a seatbelt bruise. Kids were fine.
I'm really leary of that black blind spot these days, during and after a
car passes. Especially driving my flat nosed vanagon. I at least had a
long front end on the station wagen to take some of the impact.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Jeffrey Earl wrote:
>I recall reading in Car & Driver a few years back
>(even before the whiz-bang retina-searing HID
>headlights) that when you found yourself hit by some
>clown with his brights on or just plain outta-whack
>lights, close one eye until you're past him. That way
>only one eye gets temporarily blinded, and you still
>have the other one to drive with while the first one
>recovers.
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>Let's hear it for redundant-systems bio-optics!
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>Jeffrey Earl
>1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
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