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[gfish]

After several hours of white-knuckled night driving through the Rockies tonight, I have a suggestion: Car headlights should be polarized, so you could selectively filter out the oncoming lights. Except it would also filter out your OWN headlights, though the reflections back should be less strictly polarized. So the polarization should be defendant on the direction you are going, with a rotating filter hooked up to GPS. That wouldn't be too hard.

Once this idea saves the American auto industry, a thank you in the form of an abandoned industrial plant (with its own rail spur, please) will be sufficient.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Another idea that doesn't require the cooperation of the other drivers, is having bits of LCD embedded in the windshield glass, and the car would also know exactly where your pupils are. As long as you don't jerk your head around too much, the LCDs could go opaque in exactly the right places to make two shadows over your eyes.

I don't know what the failure modes for LCD material looks like, though: it would be unfortunate if the whole display decided to go all "peril sensitive sunglasses" on you at an inopportune moment. Which would then become kind of self-fulfilling.