On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Kurt
Don't know where you read or heard that; it's not necessarily true. There are good and bad projector headlamps, and good and bad reflector headlamps (and good and bad HID Xenon headlamps, and good and bad tungsten-halogen headlamps). There are headlamps of all types that produce focused beams, and headlamps of all types that produce diffuse beams.
What about it? There are conspicuity requirements in the headlamp regulations in force worldwide such that frontal vehicle conspicuity at night or in bad weather is seldom a real problem, if ever.
Very true.
I cannot imagine where you've been hanging out that you would not by this late date be "used to" the visual signature of projector headlamps, which have been commonplace on roads worldwide for nearly two decades.
It sounds as though you ought to pay better attention.
The odds are good that you *would* want projector headlamps in such a situation, for they can be made so as to produce less upward stray light that bounces off rain, fog and snow and causes backdazzle in bad weather.
They can, depending on optical design.
Not sure what you're trying to say here -- it's not true as written.
No.
