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martyb
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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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @12:19AM (10 children)
Too many people think like you do. So, uhhh, what is your response when the oncoming driver is blinded, and drives right into your dumb ass? What are you going to have to say to him, while you're standing around, waiting for St. Peter to open up in the morning?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:05AM (3 children)
Easy solution, vote blue.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:42AM (1 child)
Dafuq does voting have to do with the issue?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @10:11AM
Because at least democrats can be convinced to put a law that forbade idiots with fucked up lights on the road. So you don't have to wait for St. Peter to open up early and shit like that. Dafuq it has to do with it.
Imagine that. Government making laws ...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:51PM
Headlights are already excessively bright in the blue part of the spectrum.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:45AM (5 children)
For many years I've imagined an automatically guided LASER- the destructive kind- that would home in on overly bright headlights and give 'em back some photons.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @12:19PM (4 children)
Since they came out with those insanely bright blue headlights I have fantasized about mounting rear-facing klieg lights on my cargo rack that automatically switch on when those people come up behind me. A crazy loud infrasonic speaker/LRAD to rattle their car would underscore the message.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:05PM (1 child)
Yep, that and a rear-facing sprayer that would first spray syrup at the tailgater's windshield, and if that doesn't back them off, then cooking oil. All that said, I rarely pay attention to what's behind me.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:19PM
You're not paranoid enough.
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(Score: 2) by toddestan on Thursday January 17 2019, @04:22AM
I always thought a couple of mirrors that could be adjusted to reflect their own headlights back into their faces would get the point across very nicely.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 17 2019, @07:22AM
That's what adjustable mirrors are for. Adjust your side mirror to aim that light right back and see how quickly drivers back off.