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Show gpi ..Tt, v.".,.' -r ?"-'- 'i. Now: "Safer" Headlights A new kind of headlight has been developed that promises to make nighttime driving a lot safer. Called "halogen" headlights, head-lights, they contain a jelly bean-sizo inner bulb with halogen gas which produces a brighter, whiter beam than ordinary headlights. BRIGHTER, WHITER HEADLIGHTS can warn animals or pedestrians before be-fore they cross a highway. Dirt and moisture cannot penetrate and ruin the light because the bulb is hermetically hermet-ically sealed inside the headlight. The new "halogens," both round and rectangular, have up to twice the luminous intensity in-tensity of standard two-and four-headlight systems: about 150,000 candlepower, the maximum high-beam high-beam brightness allowed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. General F.lectric estimates esti-mates that a typical driver's high-beam seeing distanre can be extended by up to 25 percent. GE invented the halogen bulb and manufactures a full line of halogen sealed-beam sealed-beam lamps for farm and emergency vehicles, aircraft., spotlights and emergency lighting in buildings. It would seem that our streets and highways will be made safer for pedestrians, as well as for motorists, by the introduction of these new headlights. |
