Yeah but see that would require the government to do something, and right now they can’t even tell their asses from their elbows. Oh and they’re cutting at least half the jobs. Because eFiShAnSeE.
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werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If all LED headlamps followed a new polarization standard, things could be very cool. As an example, let’s say the headlights could only shine horizontally polarized light and the windshields could only pass vertically polarized light. That means that one could see every thing very clearly because you wouldn’t be blinded by the cars coming on the opposite side. Your light would illuminate everything in from of you, which would then reflect non polarized light back at you plus all other light reflections from other sources like street lamps. Houses could be fitted with the same filter film as older cars. Similarly, people could wear polarized glasses and get the same benefit.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe guns are the solution. Just gotta aim for the LED’s! Lol.
AynRandLibertarian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I didn’t pay attention in physics class, why is the light reflected back not polarized? what happened to the once polarized photons that they come back non polarized?
Also what is polarization? I know that Electro Magnetic Radiation or EMR is made up from pulsating magnetic and electrical fields that propagate through space at a fixed rate or frequency… but what does polarization mean? does it mean the fields are slanted to one side or into one direction or something? or is it like some sort of spin or other sort of modulation?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s Horizontal and vertical polarization as well as circular polarization. In a simple explanation , think of horizontal as a fence with horizontal bars so that only the horizontal part of the photons pass thru. Now once those horizontal photons pass, they will meet surfaces, which will reflect back their light so your eyes can see it. However, in this experiment only the vertical photons will pass your windshield. Because polarization depends on the angle of incidence, you will get some of the horizontally polarized light back as vertically polarized light which will pass thru. The effect is psychedelic. I totally recommend you to try it. You need polarized glasses, a flashlight and a piece of polarized film to place on your flashlight. The colors and shapes come back to you without defined form or glimmers so stuff looks normal, but weird as heck.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t want anything about driving at night to look psychedelic or weird as heck
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think ‘uncanny’ would fit better, as certain surfaces would fluoresce despite having no apparent source of light, artifacts, or glaring that you could see.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Its just weird. Once you see it, its just like any other thing in life.
DarthKaren@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It would add to the price, which would suck, but I’d love to see some sort of HUD assist system. Even if it was a wire frame or something that appears as a HUD on the windshield. Not bright enough to blind you or be in the way, but enough to see. User could adjust the color (within limits to maybe not negate the system). To me, we don’t take enough advantage of HUD tech and different types of vision that a computer could do that a human can’t. Make it come on with the headlights or something. That way it’s not on during the day.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One big challenge with this is that the human eye has not followed all the technological advances… Its still gonna give you shit after the age of 40. So that means you cannot have a simple mirror reflection system where the driver simply focuses on stuff outside of the car and then from time to time onto the HUD. But I think Mamazon and the apple companies have figure either automated focusing or long distance focusing such that the eye doesn’t have to focus on shit up close while driving. So it’s totally doable.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yup pretty simple.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
But check the date this is a very old idea. Would probably make a very interesting YouTube video or two
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I know. It’s not my idea, this is old old. So its amazing how much we seem to like people crashing at night.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
In North America we can’t even get signal lights to not look different than break lights. I hope Europe has better luck.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree with you. Our king Elon tried to make our cars automatic. Our felon president trumpfus will be banning electric cars and orange lights because he doesn’t like to be called orange face.
But yeah otherwise not too crazy of a solution.