[Sooth2222]

Actually, the new technology will make those Xenon lights obsolete. Directional LED will still provide the same annoying light, but will be better directed through dynamic lenses. Even better still is the HUD and infra-red night-vision systems where the camera picks up things difficult to see with any lighting (like giant antlered rats) and projects it on the windscreen.

In addition to giant antlered rats, night vision also unmasks police cars lurking in the shadows at night waiting to pounce.

[The Theophilus]

night vision also unmasks police cars lurking in the shadows at night waiting to pounce.

When properly translated means that we will never see this technology used in Government Motors cars.

Infra-red nightvision piped through digital analysis software and transmitted over the air using cell-phone technology would be an excellent "social-media" application. Sort of like the computerized version of CB radios, instead of trying to grok trucker CB lingo, your iPad shows a nifty 3D representation of the LEO's location generated by a community of other drivers passing along "hot-spots" in the median and off the shoulder with timestamps and GPS coordinates.

I think I am going to work on writing that spec and filing for that patent now.