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?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Webweasel on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:58AM (2 children)
A hoon, in Australia and New Zealand, is a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:47PM
Interesting. I thought they drove like that in order to more effectively communicate by text massages.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:29PM
> A hoon, in Australia and New Zealand, is a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
Thanks for that! You'd think I could have looked it up or something. It was the wee hours and my ambition was minimal. I'm in the USA and I haven't seen nor heard of such animals, but we have lots of car racing, monster truck rallies, etc., so maybe in the US hoons are capitalists. They do make for some awesome youtube videos, especially under the "like a boss" titles.