High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting is a technology that offers your car more light output, whiter light and longer service life. HID is installed using HID kits which are sometimes called conversion kits or xenon kits. With this product car owners can feel a brand new experience in their car lighting because HID assure users of three times brighter light, clearer road images and greater efficiency. With the HID technology, car owners can save more energy because this lighting technology only consumes its needed power so there will be no waste in power and battery.
Another feature of this HID is that it does not use filaments like ordinary bulbs do instead they create light by bridging an arc between two electrodes similar to the energy transfer that creates lightning. This is a very smart development created to solve numerous lighting problems by car owners. If everyone will use this kind of lighting for their cars then they will be assured that it will last longer and will have longer life because it is beyond the ordinary and the technology it uses is not like that of ordinary bulbs. Then if better lighting is attained there will be fewer accidents on the streets and people will be encouraged to own cars even if they still fear having one. And who know maybe this technology cannot be only developed for cars but for other purposes as well and creators of these might just spark the most magnificent science breakthrough.
I guess many car owners would want to experience the similar feeling of my good friend. Well that would not be far from happening because these HID lights are very much available in car parts and accessories' store.
Can Leaving Your Car Lights On Improve Road Safety
The European Union are currently planning to make the use of Daytime running car lights compulsory on all new vehicles by 2011. The driving force behind this new ruling are studies that have shown daytime running car lights reduce day light crashes by up to 12% for cars and 10% for motorbikes. Rules on daytime running car lights first appeared in 1977 when Sweden became the first country to adopt this new safety feature. Due to the low levels of ambient light experienced during the day, other Scandanvian countries soon followed suit and now daytime running car lights are compulsory in Finland, Norway and Iceland.
One of the reasons why daytime running car lights are believed to have the ability to reduce road accidents, is that a vehicle with its lights on appears closer than it actually is. Critics of compulsory daytime running car lights say that they put more vulnerable road users at risk and increase fuel use and ultimately the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The first decision to make is which type of lights you are going to use as your daytime running lights. Are they going to be your dipped beam headlights bulbs or your sidelight bulbs?
You would benefit from switching to long life headlight bulbs, which can last for over 1000 hours. Two of the leading long life headlight bulbs are the Osram Light@Day range, which last up to three times longer than ordinary halogen bulbs, whilst the Philips Eco Vison last two times longer and use 20% less energy.
Alternatively you could use your sidelight bulbs as your daytime running lights, however in most vehicles you will find that the standard sidelight bulbs are not bright enough. Factory fitted sidelight bulbs are filled with a basic inert gas, however if you fit upgrade sidelight bulbs which are filled with halogen or xenon gas you will find they are up to three times brighter, and will stand out more clearly to other road users. For the more adventurous driver, you could fit LED sidelight bulbs, these upgrade car bulbs will fit your existing bulb holders and have a super bright chip LED which produces a really intense light, whilst also drawing less power and hence improving fuel consumption.
The development of low energy long life headlight bulbs, sidelight bulbs and high performance LED lights will also mean that using your car lights during the day, won't have an adverse effect on your running costs.
0 comments:
Post a Comment