Future work, reported in the Scientific American, will attempt to add GPS data that will adjust the direction of headlights, illuminating the route you're heading on, making your lane appear brighter than the others. The new system, apparently the size of a smaller footlocker, can also detect and track obstacles traveling up to 80 kph, like an errant deer as close as five meters from the headlights, although how this gets parsed (whether it would activate an auto-breaking system or something else) would depend on car manufacturers themselves if they decide to integrate something similar. For now -- and for a few more years -- these headlights are likely to remain research prototypes.