

The earliest headlamps, fueled by acetylene or oil, operated from the late 1880s.

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They can be powered by a battery or a small generator like a bottle or hub dynamo. Bicycle headlamps are often used on bicycles, and are required in some jurisdictions. Other vehicles, such as trains and aircraft, are required to have headlamps. Headlamp performance has steadily improved throughout the automobile age, spurred by the great disparity between daytime and nighttime traffic fatalities: the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that nearly half of all traffic-related fatalities occur in the dark, despite only 25% of traffic travelling during darkness. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, headlamp is the term for the device itself and headlight is the term for the beam of light produced and distributed by the device.

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A motor scooter's front with an impractical number and variety of headlamps, added for decorative purposes and characteristic of Mod cultureĪ headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead.
