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Intel Headlights Turn Rain Invisible
You did not read that wrong. Intel, world's largest chip maker, is developing car headlamps that will make rain drops invisible. Anyone who has driven a car while its raining knows how difficult and dangerous it can get. The rain droplets reduce visibility and obscure our vision. The new technology is being developed by Intel, in association with Carnegie Mellon University.
As you know, we see objects when light reflects off of any surface. If no light falls on the object it becomes virtually invisible. This is the basis behind how this technology works. Projectors would be a better word to describe these headlamps and rather powerful ones at that. There is also a camera that is placed beneath each projector. The cameras ‘see' individual raindrops and transmit the information to a processor, which then detects these raindrops, predicts their direction, decides which ones to block and lastly, turns them invisible - by blocking out portions of light beam coming out of the projector selectively.
Since the raindrop is not illuminated any longer it no longer exists as far as our eyes are concerned and the path in front of us is illuminated by the remaining part of the beam of light.
At present cost of fitting a powerful projector type headlamp in place of regular headlamps is very high. But Intel feels the technology will be available in production cars in the next 10 years.
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