MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
.... THINKING is mandatory. Perhaps beyond the ability of too many folks. But for anything but the most rural untraveled back roads laden with cattle, washouts, or deer having a potent light bar is silly.
We travel down the deer-laden (especially during Rutting Season) road to our digs using -
1. our vehicle's stock headlights set to LOW or HIGH, as our thinking dictates,
AND
2. our right foot to back off on ... you guessed it ... the vehicle's speed, as our thinking dictates.
We entirely missed my DW's 60th birthday party due to hitting a deer and totaling our sedan while enroute on this road. Watts of headlight power had nothing to due with it. Rutting Season, driving slightly below the speed limit instead of well below it, and having the stock headlights on LOW instead of HIGH ... had everything to do with it. (She was driving, BTW.)
There are no excuses for mounting high intensity visible light spectrum lazers, or whatever, on the front of testosterone powered vehicles in order to ignore the laws of weather, physics, and biology so as to be able to "safely pilot" a human controlled vehicle fast at night ... none whatsoever.