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Vehicles light is "car eye", it has two functions, one is lighting, the other is decorating. A wide range of lights, commonly, there are night lights, fog lights, turning lamps, and brake lights in the rear of car, taillights, reversing lights and the vehicle license plate light and so on. Lights has become an important component of a car’s beautiful appearance and function. But the basic function of security of car lights is usually overlooked by some Car-Owners.
In Beijing vehicle detect field, some reporters found out that in the annual inspection of the car lights, most of the lights are unqualified. Even some new cars are tested out some problems, such as inadequate illumination, optical properties not qualified and so on.
Automotive Headlamp is mandatory testing product in a country, it is one of most important components to guarantee against traffic accidents. If the quality is not qualified, it can’t provides good lighting for the drivers, some of them even bring the drivers and pedestrians a strong feeling of glaring, which directly jeopardizing their personal safety.
It is understood that there are thousands of car manufacturers, with varied skill and technology levels in production processes, a number of small manufacturers are more advantage in market, because of lower prices; At the same time, cheap, poor quality products are now flooding the headlamp market because consumers pursue Headlamp high brightness blindly.
One engaged in vehicle maintenance for many years said that the problem of price can not check from the light itself, genuine and fake accessories are hard to distinguish, is prominent in current auto repair industry.
For instance, to change a car headlamp, different auto repair manufacturers supply with a wide variety of things: such as original factory’s products, automobile brand has authorized professional manufacturers products, joint venture products, and unlicensed small workshops’ products.
From the appearance, different quality products are almost the same, but the market prices are not a small gap, the quality is uneven, few average consumers can know mysteries of all the variety lamps.
However, the expert is not difficult to see the fake lights’ beam is uneven, glare and shoddy, they will make the opposite driver not see the car, which easily leads to a car accident.
The quality of the lights, traffic safety, and driver's personal safety is closely related to each other. Experts also point out that different lights have different functions, use the very particular lights in a right or wrong way, will directly affect traffic safety of Car-Owners.
Commonly, drivers always complained that can not see the vehicle’s taillight of front car during the night-time driving. I do not know whether taillight is broken or other reasons. Taillights instructs abnormally is the common reason of affecting the judgments of the after drivers.
On the one hand, the taillights does not shine, so that drivers wavering; on the other hand, high beam shine abnormally, no where for the car to switch.
One day, a reporter return home late, one of his friend drive him home. They went from Asian Games Village to the north direction, passing through a wide road, the cars was in Beijing, Changping District, East Branch West enter a mouth of narrow two-way street, no street lights there, road was bumpy.
The reporters found that even though this road is too narrow to tolerate two side-by-side bus, but the oncoming truck is one after another continuously. Far away, we can feel the big truck’s glare high beam, when the intersection passing vehicles, the reporter in front of the windscreen can't saw anything.
According to traffic regulations, at night on poorly lighting roads, vehicles must switch the high beam to near beam when they are 150 meters away to each other; the high beam is not allowed to use continuously when a car come across a non-motor vehicle on narrow road or narrow bridge. For administrative, traffic control department lights make mandatory regulations that pre-wattage headlamps can not exceed 55 ~ 60W, wattage lights and colors were also restricted. This regulation is including headlamp, signal light(including shift lights, position lights, brake lights, etc.)
According to opinions of a lot of owners, illegal use of high beam at night driving is a relatively common phenomenon. In the night the car light’s beam make people dizzy and even hard to open eyes. In just a few seconds, people are inside the visual blind spot, when people are very nervous to drive, often lead to hidden dangers of traffic accidents. If the motor vehicle and non-motorized shared one road together, then the impact of the high beam on the vehicle could be even greater.
Therefore, the experts say, the rational use of headlamps should be done. Drivers should use near beam when two cars intercourse on a road and switch to high beam later, with the purpose of making up for the car’s negative result of unclear sight line; through the intersection and over passing drivers should be based on transferring light to prompt.
In addition, to check brake light bulbs regularly and use turn signal light the properly. To master the turn-on time of turn lights properly, and should turn on the light at 30-100 m from the intersection. Opened too early will bring the after car drivers illusion of "forgotten turn signal clearance", and late open will make the following drivers and pedestrians have no idea ready to stop, so that traffic accident occurred.
Source: "China's quality newspaper"
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