LED headlights have been the top of the line headlights for a little while but BMW doesn't think those are powerful enough. Engineers are experimenting with laser headlights.
These laser lights won't help survive a zombie apocalypse, but they will let people get a clearer view of the road ahead. Even more than just improving safety, though, the new laser lights will present a 70% more efficient lumens-from-watt conversion.
BMW plans to mitigate the dangers from beaming lasers into the eyes of oncoming traffic by converting the light inside the headlight housing, according to Todey in Tech.
The raw laser light will filter through a fluorescent phosphor material; this process takes the blue laser and changes it into a much more pleasant, and safer, white light.
Laser lights won't see production for a few more years, and that's assuming that no other, more effective technology hits the streets in the mean time. BMW expects its laser light innovations to pave the way to other automotive safety improvements, especially since the laser light is so much more efficient than LED technology.
