Originally Posted by Phiber
I agree with you. I was more coming from the angle that since she had her HID activated if the driver would have looked right he probably would have seen her regardless of if he were looking straight down the sidewalk.
I must apologise for the delivery I chose in my statement. It was harsh and angry; but I believe that even if we are wrong, we gotta stick together.
I'm going out on a limb here, since I'm not an expert or researcher in this, but I think that if car drivers see a light that is not familiar to them, they assume it's from something other than what's moving around in the street, or on the sidewalk. I've seen the HID lights before, and realized immediately what they were, but I wonder if car drivers think they are looking at a light that's source is "off the street", as in from a store or other building?
Also, with all the lighting in the area, especially around fast food joints, I wonder if the driver even could have seen more than just a tiny pencil of light, which would be easy to miss. I've been missed by car drivers using my Cateye EL-300 riding to work in the dark, but not when I mounted two, one aimed above the roadway at people's eyes. I'm right now eyeballing the GEN3 light from Performance that puts out 10W of light from AA NiMH batteries for 8 hours, at $60. Even though we think we can see well with our lighting, I wonder how "visible" it is to others around us that we want to see us?