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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @06:06PM (1 child)
The problem with those lights isn't the brightness, it's them being improperly aimed and often coming from taller vehicles. I'm not sure what the law is elsewhere, but around here there are rules that prohibit lights from being aimed too high. Unfortunately, enforcement seems to be lax.
This invention though makes very little sense as it's relatively OK as a replacement for the high beams, but every time you go around a curve, make a lane change or turn, you'll be illuminating a huge area that doesn't really need to be lit.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday January 21 2019, @06:44PM
Even if not aimed too high for level ground they'll be aimed wrong whenever you go over a hill.