On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, JosephKK wrote:

How about coming up with some off the shelf or homemade diffuser of
some kind to snap or attach to the end of the 1157 LED bulbs?

The "1157 LED bulbs" don't put out nearly enough total light, period.
No diffuser is going to help that.

And you came up with this how?

Photometric testing.

legal requirements state otherwise. --

Actually, the legal requirements in force in North America agree with me,
and not with you. If you believe otherwise, your understanding of the
applicable regulations is faulty.

DS (the legal requirements in force everywhere else in the world also
agree with me, but that's beside the point).