THE DAZZLE PROBLEM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 7 August 1920, Page 7

THE DAZZLE PROBLEM.

A NOVEL HIEJLP.

Wiug~Comma.nder T. R. Cave. Browne-Cave told the Illuminating Engineering Society how he got over the dazzle I\r4oblen’l', at a 1 recent. meeting of the Society.

During the war, he said, he was often making long night drives at a. fairly high speed, and he found the glare from approaching headlights a great nuisance. He was: able to completely overcome the trouble by fixing in the x-iglit.-hand top comer of his wimlscreen an oblong piece of celluloid, coloured dark green, in such a. position that it did not normally in« tercept. his line of‘: vision. When :1 car with ‘ powerful lul~:idlights wm: appl'oacl.finp; all that. was necessar_v was to filovr,» his head érliglitly I'o one side so that the colnlll‘(‘(l piece On the screen covered T3lO ‘.izh‘r.<. The coloured Piece. it 11121)’ b=.~ z=_\'pl:iino«l, was nm(.lc- so d:H"v< that

it“w:us only possible to see the lights as bright spots through it. The result was that ‘the road appeared strongly illuminated‘ -by both sets of lights, and all the discomfort from glare was eliminated. It was neces-

sary. however, to carefully watch the oncoming car (Who was net protected from. glare) to see that he did not wander across the rc’r‘~2l’cl, and for this reason the celluloid cT)uld not be quite opaque. ‘