TOO MUCH LIGHT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 8

TOO MUCH LIGHT.

[To Tub Editou Stkatfobu Post.] Sir,—l should like, through your columns, to enter a protest and to draw the attention of the authorities to the inconvenience caused by the powerful headlights carried by the motors that travel our roads by night. Very many cars can be said to cany young searchlights for they light the road for a mile or two in front of them. -Now, we drivers of ordinary wheeled-vehicles, have on meeting a car, to pull-up to a walk and give the most of the road to the glaring and blinding monster that is approaching, [or it is impossible to face the light and to see the road. Our horses on seeing the glare and on hearing the noise are sometimes inclined to be restive, and so add an element of danger to our inconvenience. It is no doubt very nice to the drivers and passengers of cars to have a powerful light, a s it enables them to tiavel very last, but why should wo have to pull up to let the cars go by. No doubt the motorist will say that a powerful light is necessary to see the road and to avoid accidents, but 1 do not see the force of iho argument, for at many pointy on the roads are notices to motorists not to exceed the speed of 12 miles per hour, and 1 do not think a very powerful light is necessary to travel safely at that pace. 1 think the County Conned should insist that no car carry lights of more than a certain candle power, and that the said lights be so shaded that the light is thrown on the road directly in front of the car, and no'. as at present, on the road and for a mile or more in front of them. Cars would certainly have to travel very much slower if my suggestion were acted on, but 1 think they could still manage more than 12 miles an hour. As tilings are, I do not think it tanthat we should have to suffer the inconvenience and danger we now do, in order that motor cars may travel as last by night as they do by day. I may s'av, Sir, that many cat's carry lights that are fairly easy to meet, but the number carrying lights that would lie more in place on the deck 0 f a battleship seem to be increasing. 1 am, etc., DRIVER.