On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:46:04 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:55:28 +0100, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:13:21 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>>
>>> "Most people don’t notice bad nighttime lighting; if you do, it can
>>> make you slightly crazed. When I’m driving at night, my wife has to
>>> tell me to watch the road instead of looking back over my shoulder at
>>> a yard whose trees have floodlights in their branches, or at an empty
>>> parking lot so bright that you could deliver babies in it."
>>>
>>> ...WTH?
>>
>> Actually, I do this, but not to that great an extent.
> 
> What deliver babies in parking lots?

Um, no, I leave that to my wife. ;-)

>>  But when someone's
>> coming at me with their bright lights on, I can't help but stare into
>> them for some reason.
> 
> It's a pain - hello where did the road go. The road is grey, the
> pavement (if any) is grey, the kerbstones (again if any) are grey; drive
> along our up and down and side to side roads and it's real good fun.

Yeah, it's difficult at best - I've gotten better the last couple of 
years, but there's still a bit of that 'moth' reaction - bright light, 
must stare at it...

My wife's got occular albinism, so she *can't* drive at night (bright 
lights blind her for 10-15 seconds, which is an eternity when driving), 
so I have to.

> Oh wait we'll stick some cat's eyes down the middle of the road, great
> except the standard cleaning mechanism relies on them being run over and
> that clearly hasn't happened in years so they reflect as much light as a
> speck of glass.
> 
> Hmm how about glow sticks down the road, same styling as the cat's eyes,
> but with a sturdy little solar panel on top just enough to trickle
> charge some LEDs. The input from the charger drops the lights come on, I
> also know that they've come up with a better cleaning method. Brighter
> and cleaner.

Well, you still want headlights, though - otherwise you can't see the 
cars coming at you from any direction.  That's one of my pet peeves about 
driving, people who drive after dark without their lights.  Makes me want 
to ram them...

Jim

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