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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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HELP! Man trapped in a human body!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:29AM (1 child)
He's talking about folks who drive with their headlights off in poor visibility weather, making them hard to see. It doesn't make me happy either.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 16 2019, @06:42PM
Thankfully, newer cars tends to automatically turn the lights on for you in such conditions. Make it easier to just let the car do it and you solve 1/2 the problem.
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