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The sci-fi tech I've wanted for years is a liquid crystal windshield that blacks out a small circle over the sun from the driver's perspective while leaving the
by catalogia 7y ago
The sci-fi tech I've wanted for years is a liquid crystal windshield that blacks out a small circle over the sun from the driver's perspective while leaving the rest of the windshield clear. Driving west in the evening or east in the morning, I wager a lot of people have had this idea at some point.
I have no idea if it will ever become feasible, but I sure hope it does.
- FPGAhacker 7y agoI've had the exact same thought. I expect it to happen eventually, or some other tech will render the issue moot.
- astatine 7y agoThis. Not just the sun, but more annoyingly, opposing headlights in the night. Technologies to avoid blinding opposing drivers are not adequate. We could do with technology to assist those who are on the affected side.
- xaedes 7y agoMaterial sciences could bring a solution: Transparent material that becomes opaque to bright light (something like gamma < 1, gain < 1) in the direction of the light. So each point of the material is transparent or opaque depending on the viewing angle and respective directed light flow through it. I think such a material could be engineered.