hetman

The high-tech high-beams will be offered on the Audi R8 LMX, a limited-edition run of the bonkers R8 supercar. Audi says the laser spot lamp in the car’s high beam lamps provide significantly more light, and shines it much further ahead of the car–two things you’ll find useful when barreling through the night at felonious velocity in a 570-horsepower sports car.




Each headlight features a laser module that generates a cone of light that reaches twice as far as Audi’s LED headlight. Each module sports four laser diodes just 300 micrometers in diameter. They fire a blue laser beam with a wavelength of 450 nanometers into a phosphor converter, generating white light with a color temperature of 5,500 Kelvin–the perfect white light for nighttime illumination. The laser spot, as Audi calls it, supplements the standard LED high beam at speeds over 38 mph. A camera detects pedestrians and cars ahead and adjusts the beam so you don’t blind them.

steelerz1

Pretty soon gonna need a degree in rocket science to change a headlight!

Wannafbody

Put them in high beam mode and you can slice and dice the car in front of you for a faster commute.

All Hat No Cattle

Oh great.

I can just picture this Audi RS-7 coming at you at 100 mph at night, with laser headlights and the driver reading a book.