For BMW folks..here come the lasers.

[no2guncntrl]

Looks like BMW is going to Laser power for headlight in the future..
This stuff is getting WAY beyond me.
http://jalopnik.com/5836610/bmw-will...reaking-lasers
excerpt

BMW will replace LED headlights with freaking lasers

A new report from Munich reveals that, while Audi was busy trying to shove 300 LEDs into the snout of an A7, BMW's been working on the real future: laser headlights. My cat is going to flip out.

Lasers offer myriad improvements over the stock LED bulbs being used in modern luxury cars: they use less energy, they're brighter, smaller and can be directed at a smaller area.

Being brighter (170 lumens compared to about 100 lumens for LED) and more efficient is an obvious advantage, and being smaller means designers can go insane and create those impossibly thin lights we see on concepts but never see in real life, although BMW denies this is their main purpose.

Most intriguingly is the possibility for a laser-like spotlight to highlight certain obstacles. A laser headlight can, theoretically, send an almost perfect parallel beam of light that's 1,000 times brighter than a conventional LED. Here's how BMW explains it'll work with their "Dynamic Light Spot" system:

"The term "Dynamic Light Spot" stands for a marker light system that automatically illuminates pedestrians in good time, thereby guiding the driver's attention."

I suppose this probably means very little to most folks as many are dealing with HID's and more so,
older Halogen lighting systems, but it just goes to show what some may have just imagined is
showing up. I myself have just started fooling with HID's based on Morimoto bulbs and
ballasts, etc, then I saw the above.

[Activate: AMD]

great... HID lamps already blind me when the oncoming car has them.. now they'll have lasers? good-bye retinas!

[modru2004]

the idiot that came up with that should be lined up before a firing squad and summarily dealt with. freaking HID's should be outlawed as it is.

[bk94si]

great... HID lamps already blind me when the oncoming car has them.. now they'll have lasers? good-bye retinas!

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[JustinC939]

Meh? Let me know when cars are equipped with Photon Torpedos.

[Enmore]

Ford will have cars that use laser spark plugs soon.

[frogmeat69]

And all I want is dual .50cals on the front, call me old fashioned, but I don't need no fancy Star Trek weapons.... Oh wait, laser headlights??!! That's stoopid!!!

[Invictus]

The light saber sound then you turn on your headlights would be cool.

[Enmore]

A better device would be one that forces the driver to use turn signals and drive in the outer lane on motorways/freeways. Both of which BMW drivers have problems with in the UK.

[3dfxrain]

Now we should strap dem laser beams to their heads.

[autobot]

Hyundai needs to put these headlights on their new Tiburon. Then there will literally be sharks with friggin lasers attached to their heads. ^_^