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Interestingly, a similar version of these systems was demonstrated back in 2012 which could track individual snow flakes or rain drops. They would avoid illumi
by luma 6y ago
Interestingly, a similar version of these systems was demonstrated back in 2012 which could track individual snow flakes or rain drops. They would avoid illuminating the drops so they wouldn’t reflect back at you, thus reducing glare and allowing you to see much further.
https://youtu.be/4jwhQM6aDS8 https://youtu.be/4jwhQM6aDS8
- pandaman 6y agoSuch system could work in moderate conditions, though it's doubtful. As soon as you get water "dust" in front of the headlight the only thing this tracking can do is to shut off the light entirely, there is no way isolating separate droplets and the cloud of "dust" will disperse the light further into the medium.
- nullc 6y agoWell, if you don't mind the driver having to watch via a HUD there is range-gated imaging which does exactly the thing you're assuming is impossible. :P
- pandaman 6y agoI assume you either don't understand what range-gated imaging is or how the headlights work.
- nullc 6y agoMy comment didn't have anything to do with the headlights except pointing out that the 'impossibility' of not illuminating the drops in the air isn't actually an impossibility with sufficiently crazy hardware. -- A fact I expected other readers to find interesting. My apologies if it sounded to you as something I was saying could realistically be done with projector headlights.