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Borborygymus | 3 months ago

I always wondered if it would be feasible to make the headlights produce polarized light (e.g. vertical), and have windscreens filter out that polarization... I guess it would only work if the scattering of light off of whatever is being illuminated sufficiently depolarizes the light. Anyhow, I thought it was a neat idea when I was a teenager.

There might be some issues with retro fitting the world's existing road vehicle fleet, but that's a deployment detail. :p

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sokoloff|3 months ago

If you polarized the light and windshield to 45° off vertical, opposite direction traffic would have their windshield at 90° to your light…

hengistbury|3 months ago

This might cause issues with polarised sunglasses