This one's easy. My dad had one. It goes in the front window of your car. It allows you to drive right up the white line at an intersection, where the stop light is generally almost directly overhead. You can see the light change overhead in the lens without having to scrunch your head down and forward to look up at the light. You rich kids with multiple lights all over each corner of the intersection wouldn't understand. Now get off my lawn.
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