BMW develops laser light for the car

[frikkieh]

Following the introduction of the full LED headlight, laser light is the next logical step in the development of vehicle headlight technology. BMW is planning this step, thus further expanding its lead in innovative light technology.

Munich. As a globally successful carmaker within the premium segment, the BMW Group attaches the utmost importance to advanced technology in all sectors of automotive manufacturing. Exclusive innovations and technological leaps secure BMW’s lead amongst the competition. In the field of exterior vehicle lights, BMW also leads the way for example with full LED headlamps for the BMW 6 Series and with new developments such as the “Anti-dazzle High- Beam Assistant”, as well as with “Dynamic Light Spot”. The term “Dynamic Light Spot” stands for a marker light system that automatically illuminates pedestrians in good time, thereby guiding the driver’s attention.

After LED technology, laser light is the next logical step in car light development. BMW engineers are currently already working on the introduction of laser light as a further pioneering technology for series production within a few years. Laser light could then facilitate entirely new light functions for even more safety and comfort and at the same time contribute significantly through its higher degree of efficiency towards a saving in energy and fuel respectively.

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[Philip Foglar]

Interesting new technologies! LED is definitely the current and sensible new lighting solution for cars - durability and energy efficient!

With the idea of laser technology, as long as we get a "zappppp-beam" option to vaporise idiots on the road! :roflol:

Philip

 

[Sankekur]

Hasn't audi been using LED headlights for while now?

What I am just wondering how they are going to make a white laser :thinking:

 

[Cole]

as long as the laser can track people hiding behind bushes and zap them! raise:

 

[frikkieh]

Hasn't audi been using LED headlights for while now?

What I am just wondering how they are going to make a white laser :thinking:

This guy just build a white laser in his "back yard".

http://www.rog8811.com/whitelaserpointer.htm

 

[Sankekur]

It still seems that he is just combining different colours to produce the white light, it is not generating the white light out of a single substrate.

 

[Guetzer]

It still seems that he is just combining different colours to produce the white light, it is not generating the white light out of a single substrate.

im sure its possible to make a while laser beam, as white light is only the mixture of different colors of light we perceive with our eyes. maybe they can build a single laser module that mixes the colors so that it appears white to us.

 

[Sankekur]

Yup like I said, single substrate.

 

[WyKiD]

as long as the laser can track people hiding behind bushes and zap them! raise:

....Crispy Coisman:roflol:

 

[frikkieh]

Laser being a single wavelength, it would be difficult to produce white light, so it looks like they will combine the colors right? Then again after some reading on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser

"Most so-called "single wavelength" lasers actually produce radiation in several modes having slightly different frequencies (wavelengths), often not in a single polarization. And although temporal coherence implies monochromaticity, there are even lasers that emit a broad spectrum of light, or emit different wavelengths of light simultaneously. "

I cannot see the benefit anyway, LED light seems the way to go.

I like the weapons part of the article:
"On March 18, 2009 Northrop Grumman claimed that its engineers in Redondo Beach had successfully built and tested an electrically powered solid state laser capable of producing a 100-kilowatt beam, powerful enough to destroy an airplane or a tank. According to Brian Strickland, manager for the United States Army's Joint High Power Solid State Laser program, an electrically powered laser is capable of being mounted in an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle because it requires much less space for its supporting equipment than a chemical laser."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/03/military-laser/

Sank, to develop the first BMW toll camer zapper tracker :rollsmile:
If you can pull it off, you get rich very quick, if you know what I meann :roflol:

 

[Sankekur]

Yup, I know exactly what you mean :mmm: :rollsmile:

 

[@ri]

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150404090617269.416781.22893372268&type=1

BMW FTMFW

 

[Onyx]

:bravo:

No that just looks cool!

 

[frikkieh]

BMW has big plans ! :joy: