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on Tuesday January 15 2019, @11:27PM
from the blinded-by-even-more-distant-oncoming-traffic dept.
from the blinded-by-even-more-distant-oncoming-traffic dept.
Most people don’t turn on their car’s headlights and think, I wish they were brighter. Shuji Nakamura is not most people.
The Nobel Prize-winning illumination scientist has spent the past five years developing a laser-based lighting system. His company, SLD Laser, says the new design is 10 times brighter than today’s LED lights, capable of illuminating objects a kilometer away while using less power than any current technology. And unlike a regular, dumb headlight, the laser can potentially be integrated into current and forthcoming driver-assistance systems.
Do headlights need to be brighter?
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @12:18AM (1 child)
Dumbass, the laser solves your problem by vaporizing the deer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @12:41PM
Vaporising the deer?, I spy a townie...
That would be a total waste of good venison....Bambi rôti à la étoile de la mort FTW!