John Kelly, a columnist for
The Washington Post, drives a MINI and thought the often blinding lights of other drivers were because you sit less than three feet off the ground. Apaarently, he discovered he might be wrong.
When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration invited Americans to weigh in on the issue in 2001, it received 4,000 comments. Motorists blamed the height of headlights on SUVs, drivers who use their fog lights and the increasing usage of HIDs: those blue-tinged high-intensity discharge lights.
