People as early as DaVinci were thinking up automobiles, and since they were made a common necessity in pretty much every modern home to date, people have been thinking of ways to improve them.

For at least 100 years, people have been PAID to sit in a room and design functional enhancements to the regular vehicular experience.

Amazing inventions like built in TVs, stow-and-go seating, and ash-trays were invented centuries before a freaking headlight that turns the corner before you do.

I'm SERIOUSLY amazed that it took them this freaking long to decide, "Hey, what if we started focusing on logical ways to make driving safer instead of making crappy commercials that ask us 'When is a car more than just a car?' Really, I'd like to know when a car becomes a lover. I really would."

JediKirby

One word:

Money.

I'm pretty sure they've had turning headlights before, but these sound a lot more advanced than something "that turns the corner before you do."

They're not even mentioning its real purpose. So jerks can blind people with their highbeams before the car is even directly facing them!

Not exactly new though since that's a 4 year old article.

But even 4 years ago is still far too late for something so simple.

The design could have been installed on the very first vehical with headlights: EASILY. I can invision a simple gear mechinism either attached to the drive-shaft, or the steering column area. Even the axle could control headlight angles in earlier cars. This is NOT rocket science.

It's not a new concept either, it's been done before, just much more simplified...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlights#Dynamic_Headlamp_Beam_Control

That makes me feel a little better, but wouldn't you think the option of a turning headlamp would be standard if they started doing it in the 30s? Really? It just makes sense to me.

Lexus have had this features for a few years now. Its avaible for all their models.

It's 2006 and there's still no flying cars and teleports like what we were supposed to have 6 years ago. Or even according to some people, in the 1990's! Geez. I guess before that technology can't impress me that much.

Here's why: It's not that big a deal. I never have a problem seeing around corners because if i'm going fast enough to need to see that far around a corner, the turn is going to be very wide, and if the turn is sharp enough that my headlights don't already light it up sufficiently, I'm not going fast enough to need my headlights pointing sideways.

It has more to do with advancements in ****ING ENGINEERING than anything.

I'm gonna be freakin' pissed off if everytime I meet someone in a curve, I'm going to get blinded by their headlights.

You'd think, although the Citroën models in the late 60s/early 70s had to have the directional lights removed when sold in the US because of "regulatory" reasons....what the hell they were I have no idea.

As opposed to being blinded by everyone else's headlights when you're on a straight road? Are curves your eye rest place?

Pfft. That's nothing. We put a man on the moon years before we figured out how to put wheels on luggage.

Let me rephase and explain. In general, I'm not blinded by other head-lights on straight road by low beams UNLESS they are coming over a hill. This isn't that bad because...well, we're on a straight road so I just have to keep going straight (even if I can't see until they pass or finish coming over the hill).

So, in a similar respect, meeting a car with low beams in a curve, in general, are no problem at all. Even if it's on a hill, because their beams are going out away from the curve and thus do not reach my eyes until right before we pass. However, if the headlights were to 'turn' into the curve, it would then reach my eyes much sooner if the curve is on a hill. Thus, causing a more serious problem then that of meeting a car over a hill on a straight road, because now I have to navigate the curve while the headlights blind me.

I don't think some people think this kind of stuff all the way through...

I'm more concerned why we haven't launched Ricardo Montalban and about 28 people into space yet. We're, like, 15 years overdue for this. Seriously screwing up the Star Trek timeline here, guys.

What about an air-conditioning unit that also makes chili? IT CAN HAVE SETTINGS LIKE "CHILLY" AND "CHILI" LOL.

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Warning: SNL sketch, may be inappropriate for people under 16.

It's all Bermanga's fault

(that's mixing Berman and Braga, Star Trek writers)