DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS FOR PUBLIC EVALUATION OF POLARIZED HEADLIGHTS

ON THE BASIS OF PRIOR STUDIES SHOWING THE TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES OF POLARIZATION OF VEHICLE HEADLIGHTING, AN EVALUATION OF SUCH LIGHTING IN A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC TEST WAS PROPOSED. THE STUDY CONSTITUTES, IN PART, THE PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR SUCH A TEST AND INCLUDES THE DESIGN OF NECESSARY COMPONENTS FOR MODIFYING VEHICLES AS WELL AS THE RESULTS OF A PILOT STUDY UTILIZING APPROXIMATELY 50 VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH POLARIZED HEADLIGHTS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract FH-11-7349
• Corporate Authors:

  Southwest Research Institute

  6220 Culebra Road, P.O. Drawer 28510
  San Antonio, TX  United States  78228-0510
• Authors:
  • Hemion, R H
  • Hull, R W
  • Cadena, D G
  • Dial, B C
• Publication Date: 1971-7-31

Media Info

• Pagination: 113 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance; Engineering; Evaluation; Headlamps; Motor vehicles; Night; Performance; Polarized light; Public opinion; Testing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Acceptability
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221919
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rept
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 15 1973 12:00AM