When the headlights prototype laser light with 7 Series headlights BMW i8 everything looks better. Maybe it’s for the amazing jet light or how you open their eyes to the clarity that comes before you.

Last week we talked you out of laser headlights BMW i8. We can now say that we have seen work. Now we can tell you forget the size of the lighthouse, economy of space and freedom that let designers such small headlights, saving their consumption only 10 watts. Forget everything, just Stay with it is more than just a lighthouse.

Laser: single long range

At the moment, laser headlights are just a auxiliary projectors reaching. In fact, they call "laser Booster". Yes, perfectly integrated within LED headlamps bearing the BMW i8. Will not be headlights as standard, but One option. We have not reported price, but imagine the supplement represented xenon headlights versus normal. Because the jump is even greater than that accounted for xenon. Simply, doubles the range of the headlights LED or xenon.

Straight, as have a perfect view, your eyes just before the light beam. On a winding road with trees and reflective signs, you check how you see the curve next, and the next among the trees. Does not illuminate the road as do the LED when activated lights up the landscape. His mouth is full responsible calling 3D lighting. The reality is that progress through a stretch It looks like someone has lit from outside.

It has some peculiarity. As the LED headlamps are responsible for enhanced lighting roadsides and thanks to the outside of each headlamp projector can rotate, the jet makes light guide where the curve passes. The rotation is automatic, depending on the speed and steering angle. Or carrying a small visor on the projector so you do not autodeslumbres in fog or rain … but that we could not check it. Only be automatic lights, the driver can not activate, will depend on other traffic and temperature (because there are heated and require certain speed to ensure air circulation).