Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:34:48 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Various replies to Mike Bartman
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  Mike Bartman wrote:
>
[...]
>
> > I've wondered if polarizing filters on the headlights, and
> > polarizing filters in the windshields or on the drivers, might not
> > help that problem.
>
>  Everyone going north would have vertically polarized headlights and
>  windshields, and everyone going south would have horizontally
>  polarized headlights and windshields?  It might work if it were easy
>  to switch when changing direction.  But what about people going east
>  or west?  And what about cyclists and pedestrians, who don't have
>  windshields?
>
>  (Maybe people going east could have red headlights and red-tinted
>  windshields, and people going west could have blue headlights and
>  blue-tinted windshields?)

This is just silly, and ignores the way polarized light and filters works.

--Ted White