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[gfish]

After several hours of white-knuckled night driving through the Rockies tonight, I have a suggestion: Car headlights should be polarized, so you could selectively filter out the oncoming lights. Except it would also filter out your OWN headlights, though the reflections back should be less strictly polarized. So the polarization should be defendant on the direction you are going, with a rotating filter hooked up to GPS. That wouldn't be too hard.

Once this idea saves the American auto industry, a thank you in the form of an abandoned industrial plant (with its own rail spur, please) will be sufficient.

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[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

The solution has been worked out long ago. All headlights with polarizing filters slanted at the same 45 degree angle and corresponding sunglasses. All oncoming cars will automatically have their filters at 90 degrees.

Now bright lights in your rear view mirror is another problem.

The scary thing is, I could set you up with an abandoned industrial plant. -But there are strings attached.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Can I buy a share? I could take a length of string, in exchange for a piece of plant!

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's clever. Auto-darkening rear view mirrors are already a proven technology; I'd sure love to try the combination.

Truth is, unless it's in the Seattle area or *very* impressive, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of it anyway.