Sentences with phrase «high beams at»

Motorists should avoid using high beams at night in proximity to bicyclists to not temporarily blind them

Optional techno goodies include matrix LED headlights that can maintain high beams at all times by tracking approaching cars and reducing the intensity of the LED beam directed at them, adding $ 2300.

As part of its Information Package, our tester car also came with GM's Intellibeam headlight - control system, which uses a forward - looking digital camera mounted to the front of the rearview mirror to enable the car to turn on its high beams at night when no other vehicles are detected on the road ahead.

Using high beams at night may make the difference between seeing certain obstacles on the road.

Headlights also lost points if they resulted in excessive glare to oncoming vehicles, and low beams were weighted more heavily in the analysis because IIHS says most people do not use their high beams at all.

I'm guessing I'd have to buy another bulb just like my new one if that is the case, but I was wondering — is there is some other way to make them both high beam at the same time / both low beam at the same time?

Not exact matches

In late December, he said, he had been struck by a strange, disturbing phenomenon — a powerful beam of high - pitched sound that seemed to be pointed right at him.

At the press of a button the image of the hole is beamed onto a 9 - by -10-foot high - resolution projection screen.

She held her head a bit higher and she beamed at her baby and at herself.

But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at high speed on a beam of light.

Scientists, engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved for high - energy neutrino experiments a world record: a sustained 521 - kilowatt beam generated by the Main Injector particle accelerator.

«We have the world's highest - power beam for neutrinos, and we're only going up from here,» said Ioanis Kourbanis, head of the Main Injector Department at Fermilab.

Cars beaming short - range radio signals in 360 degrees and broadcasting their exact position on the road at every moment could auto - drive together, bumper to bumper, at high speeds.

In the second run, it should be able to gather physics data at energies of 13 teraelectronvolts, the highest - energy collisions of particle beams ever.

The researchers focused the smaller laser beams through the cloud of ultracold atoms and found that each beam's focus — the point at which the beam's intensity was highest — attracted a single atom, essentially picking it out from the cloud and holding it in place.

The researchers used a coherent, nanoscale beam of X-rays generated by the high - flux synchrotron accelerator at the Advanced Light Source to interrogate each nanoparticle.

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Inside the giant doughnut - shaped building that houses the synchrotron, a high energy electron beam runs at close to the speed of light in a storage ring 844 metres in circumference, shielded by thick concrete walls.

Their technique aims a high - powered laser beam upward at a small, low - mass craft.

This is a schematic of the BIC laser: a high frequency laser beam (blue) powers the membrane to emit a laser beam at telecommunication frequency (red).

High intensity beams of muon neutrinos (or muon anti-neutrinos) are produced at J - PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) on Japan's east coast, and fired towards the Super-Kamiokande detector 295 km away in Gifu Prefecture.

Radiation is a concern when working with X-rays, but she says researchers can accomplish a lot using the high - flux, high - energy X-ray beams at the APS.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

By powering the membrane with a high frequency laser beam, researchers induced the BIC system to emit its own lower frequency laser beam (at telecommunication frequency).

«Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) generates the highest - energy X-ray beams in the country at its synchrotron,» said Dyer, who co-led the study with ANL's Bobby Kasthuri at the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron.

The researchers at first fabricated high - quality, atomically thin FeSe films, with thickness of between one monolayer (which corresponds to three - atoms thickness) and twenty monolayers (sixty - atoms thickness), by using the molecular - beam - epitaxy (MBE) method * 3.

When I was a student at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, our principal, Dr. Morris Meister, had an image for scientific endeavor and the enlightenment it brings: «Think of science as a powerful searchlight continuously widening its beam and bringing more of the universe into the light,» he said.

In October or soon after, 14 years after the project's initial approval and 10 years after construction began, a beam will be introduced traveling in the opposite direction, and ATLAS will tell scientists what happens when the protons collide at 7 TeV, a much higher energy than any manmade particle collision in history.

The combination of a long beam - path and high - intensity emission enhances the measurement, so even chemicals present at parts - per - billion levels can be detected.

Imaging with more than one particle per shot will allow scientists to achieve much higher hit rates, since it is easier to use a wide beam and hit many particles at a time, and will also avoid the need to separate out single - particle hits from multiple - particle hits and blank shots, which is another challenging requirement in traditional single - particle imaging.

Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

Researchers there smashed together beams of protons with beams of lead ions, producing showers of subatomic particles that flew away in all directions at high speed.

SuperB would use the massive magnets from the idle PEP - II collider at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California; would cost about $ 450 million; would smash particles at a slightly higher rate; and would used a spin - polarized electron beam, says David Hitlin, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who works on the project.

Fiber lasers are useful because they tend to be stable and easy to use, produce high quality beams, can emit at high powers, and are easy to cool.

Combining these two innovative ideas, the world's highest beam injection performance has been achieved with the beam power of 6.9 MW at the beam energy of 190 keV.

In addition to a few other upgrades, he said, «Today we're running the accelerator at the highest beam energy ever in neutron production at 957 MeV.

The high temperatures at the interior of the Earth were created by heating samples with a laser beam.

He and Li suggest that the design might, however, be a useful element in proposed integrated circuits that work at high speeds by flicking light beams back and forth.

By stretching the sheet we can make the bugs recede from each other at arbitrarily high speeds, but no bug can crawl across the sheet faster than a light beam.

The LHC is designed to allow collisions at much higher energies — all the way up to 14,000 GeV (14 TeV), or 7 TeV per beam.

On 23 May 2013, a malfunction sent a brief, unexpectedly high intensity beam at a gold target and vaporized radioactive material leaked into the experiment hall.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

Using premier beams of ultraviolet light at the ALS, a DOE national user facility for synchrotron radiation, the collaboration has reported the first demonstration of high - temperature superconductivity in the surface of a topological insulator — a unique class of advanced materials that are electrically insulating on the inside but conducting on the surface.

The notion of transmitting power over the air is at least 100 years old, with methods from high - powered microwaves to focused beams of infrared being tested.

The use of intermediate size nuclei is expected to result in intermediate energy density - not as high as in earlier runs colliding two beams of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), but more than was produced by colliding a beam of gold ions with much lighter deuterons.

Inside the accelerator, two high - energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide.

«While we provide a safe product, we know there are at - risk groups, and that processing methods like freezing, high - pressure treatment and electron - beam irradiation reduce or eliminate the risk for those groups and enhance the overall safety of our product.»

Four astronauts training for test flights with NASA's Commercial Crew program joined the festivities at Space Launch Complex 41 Thursday morning as one of the highest steel beams was placed on the Crew Access Tower during a «topping off» ceremony with United Launch Alliance,

Beams with high energy and fluence are expected to advance a range of applications including advanced X-ray sources and studies of the physics at extreme intensities.