Combine some European law reform with Koito Manufacturing’s latest experiment, and you end up with LED headlights by 2007. They look rad, but there’s still a couple shortcomings—namely a lack of brightness and heat. According to a Koito spokesperson, the brightness could easily be increased by adding more lights, but doing so would increase the power consumption. The second problem facing LED headlamps is low heat. While halogens generate enough heat in of themselves to melt off any snow that may have built up on your lights, this isn’t the case for LED lights.
Implementation of LED headlamps in 2007 [NikkeiBP]
