Lasers
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BMW says its Z3 GT3 will be the first race car equipped with laser headlights.
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Audi R18 e-tron quattro: Now With Laser Headlights
The 2014 Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP-1 car will feature laser headlights.
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Volvo's City Safety System Produces Tangible Results For U.K Car Service
If you fly Virgin Atlantic Airway’s Upper Class from the U.K., the chauffeur-driven car dispatched to bring you to the airport will come from car service Tristar Worldwide. Tristar provides airport transportation for Virgin’s highest-profile customers (among other clients), so reducing...
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The Top Car Tech Of 2011
We'll likely look back on 2011 as the year that the app truly entered our automobiles, becoming integrated with our Bluetooth-connected smartphones and, in some cases, fully integrated with vehicle infotainment systems.
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Good Headlights: The Most Important Technology On Your Car?
If you live in the Northern hemisphere, as the majority of the world's population does, today is the shortest day of the year. For those of us at relatively high latitudes, that means an even shorter period of daylight hours, and like much of winter, a commute both to and from work in the dark...
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BMW Now Developing Production Laser Headlight Tech
"Farewell, LED lights, it was nice knowing you. We've enjoyed a good few years together, but now something better has come along and swept us off our feet." So might go the "breakup speech" with LED lights, now that BMW has announced it's working on a production version of the laser headlights we...
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BMW plans to start installing its laser headlights onto production cars within three years.
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Move Aside LED Lighting Tech, BMW Is Firing Up The Lasers
Sometimes the pace of development in the automotive segment has echos of Moore's Law, the trend for power in the computing world to double every two years. No sooner have manufacturers such as Audi started ditching halogen and HID lighting for intelligent and ultra-bright LED light clusters in some...
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BMW Develops Laser Headlight Technology
Having already announced the introduction of full LED headlights in its new 6-Series range, BMW is moving onto the next wave of advanced lighting technology for cars: lasers. BMW engineers are currently working on the introduction of laser light in car headlights, with the aim to improve safety as...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Latest RoboCar Prototype: Ugly, But High Tech And Autonomous
Some cars are beautiful. Others are fast. Some others are incredibly practical. Some other cars are none of these things, but their importance isn't in their looks, speed or usability but the technological advancements they'll offer to the car industry as a whole. The RoboCar MEV-C is one of these...
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Thorium Powered Cars: A Million Miles Without Refuelling
It reads more like a 1950s space race vision of the future than a pragmatic 21st Century theory, but we could now be a step closer to driving a nuclear-powered car. In light of the recent events in Japan following the tsunami that caused meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, and previous events...
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Laser-Wielding Robots Build Better Fords
Laser-beam-emitting-robots were once the stuff of 1950s science-fiction nightmares, but today they’re on our side and helping Ford Motor Company to build a better product. Ford has invested some $100 million to install robotic plant laser inspection technology in their Chicago, Michigan and...
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"You can't start a fire without a spark" sang Bruce Springsteen in his 1984 hit Dancing In The Dark. Great line, but unfortunately for old Bruce he wasn't quite technically accurate, as a research team in Japan and Romania is looking into using lasers to ignite the fuel-air mixture in combustion engines. Using a laser to ignite fuel seems like a great idea and you may be wondering why nobody has thought of it before. The answer is that they have, but previously lasers capable of delivering sufficient power to ignite a fuel-air mixture have been too large and too fragile to be practical in...
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Magic Laser And Nanoparticle Engines To Solve Emissions Crisis?
A new technology involving functionalized fullerenes and low-energy lasers could make cars far more efficient.
Nelson Ireson