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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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(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:57AM (2 children)
One of the counterintuitive tricks I was taught growing up - as you top a hill, switch to high beams, so they don't shine into the eyes of oncoming drivers. As you level off, switch back to low beams. I don't think that is taught anymore, and even if it were, no one would actually do it.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:56AM (1 child)
Hah, I do that too, but was never taught. Seems like a courtesy.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:45PM
Friend, you use such strange words. What is this courtesy thing you speak of? Some strange new thing that nobody has heard of?
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