Because HID wasn't blinding enough - lasers!
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BMWs standard fitting Xenons are not horrendously blinding, more just white light rather than yellow. I don't think these laser lights, if they start pushing them through to production cars, will be that bad.
It's aftermarket HIDs that are really, really bright. I just got rid of a set on my car and have gone back to good old fashioned halogen bulbs. The ones on my car were not even the maximum brightness rating (they generally come in 4 strengths, pretty much "Super-bright" through to "Surface of the sun") and yet they made my dipped beam so illuminating that adding the halogen main beam bulbs had almost no additional effect at all. HIDs would be perfect as main beams though, the intense white light gives contrast far, far beyond anything halogen bulbs can offer and the light travels so far.
It's aftermarket HIDs that are really, really bright. I just got rid of a set on my car and have gone back to good old fashioned halogen bulbs. The ones on my car were not even the maximum brightness rating (they generally come in 4 strengths, pretty much "Super-bright" through to "Surface of the sun") and yet they made my dipped beam so illuminating that adding the halogen main beam bulbs had almost no additional effect at all. HIDs would be perfect as main beams though, the intense white light gives contrast far, far beyond anything halogen bulbs can offer and the light travels so far.
Mastodon2 said:
It's aftermarket HIDs that are really, really bright.
Yeah definitely.It's the people that fit the brightest aftermarket hids that aren't properly aligned that annoy (and blind) me.
As someone said I don't find the drl bright, it's just badly aligned hids at night that blind me
if you read it closely, they band on and on about all of the (benefits) of laser light... coherent, low beam divergence...monochromatic (bad for headlights) etc. etc.
and then they say that they are just going to use it to excite a phosphor of some kind which will emit broad spectrum white light (what you want for headlights anyway)... which won't be coherent, have low beam divergence, or be monochromatic.
and then they say that they are just going to use it to excite a phosphor of some kind which will emit broad spectrum white light (what you want for headlights anyway)... which won't be coherent, have low beam divergence, or be monochromatic.
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