LED lights's so yesterday,,,

[Pedro_The_Swift]

New Audi Sport Quattro Laserlight geeks out with mad lumens




Posted Jan 8th 2014 10:28AM




It's safe to say that, at least as far as automotive companies go, Audi's Sport Quattro Laserlight concept car is stealing the show here at CES in Las Vegas. The car's 700-horsepower hybrid powertrain and carbon-fiber bodywork mean that it would go like stink if it were ever allowed to turn a wheel, and the shapely coupe stance looks every inch the part of a modern-day super coupe, too. Better yet, the laser-powered headlamps that are the crowning glory of the concept car are actually slated for production at some point in the not-distant future.

We're talking about lasers here, folks. I don't know about you, but if you had told the 10-year-old, Real Genius-watching version of me that there'd one day be a car with lasers for headlights, well, I'd have wanted one of those things, pretty bad.

Anyway, Audi's lasers may not be able to ignite a giant pack of Jiffy Pop from space, but they are set to be the new standard for illumination on the road. The laser lights are nearly three times as bright and beam twice as far as current, top-notch LED high beams and were called "safer, sharper and more efficient" compared with existing technologies. That "safer" part works on two levels: the brighter beams offer far better visibility, naturally, but Audi also tells us that they won't dazzle oncoming drivers like traditional high beams will. That means you can drive with the maximum illumination at all times. Cool stuff, here at CES.

[superquag]

A good link here...

BMW Laser Headlights Slice Through the Dark - IEEE Spectrum

[goingbush]

very simple technology when you see how it works

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h29SwJDXMBc]BMW Laser Headlamp Demonstration - YouTube[/ame]

The chinese will have retro kits cheaper than HID's on ebay in no time.

[VladTepes]

very cool.

[Hymie]

Oh good.
Something new for people to dazzle and blind us with at night.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

no Hymie, its just the opposite,,
lasers DONT dazzle,,