Dial down the brightness on a dark road only slightly, and the gauges all but fade to black.
The optional Matrix adaptive LED headlamps, available on my car, though are excellent, automatically adjusting the brightness to cater for specific road conditions.
That's how it developed the first wet sandpaper for the car industry, hook-and-loop closures for diapers, reflective sheeting for road signs and brightness-enhancement films for laptops.
In the Spring, if you look into the hills throughout California, it's as though the sun itself has swathed a path of brightness along the green --creating a road to somewhere you want to go.
Traffic volumes, truck routes and road networks, land use data, satellite-derived vegetation greenness and soil brightness, and truck route slope gradients were used for predicting NOX concentrations.
The LUR models included the variables vehicle miles traveled on highways, major and other roads, total lengths of major and local road segments, land use data (industrial, commercial) and satellite-derived soil brightness within circular buffers of various radii centered on the sampling sites, distance between the sampling sites and nearest truck routes, and coordinates of the sampling sites.
We identified two environmental predictors, namely Tasseled cap 1 (a range value of land brightness) and slope, and three variables derived from human use (house densities, unpaved roads and fences) as the best predictors of occurrence of the species.
The cycle crossings included in the study differed in several ways with regard to street lighting, road width, background (complexity, brightness/luminance, presence/absence of light sources) etc, which probably explains the large differences in visibility.
The red clay dust of the road kicked up in our faces as we rode along, and the sheer brightness of the morning was dazzling.
"Holland Road," the surprising hit "The Cave," even "Little Lion Man" with its proud profanity: all wrangle brightness from the dark.
