Ford seems to be designing headlights that turn in the direction that a driver is looking, writes Brian Byrne.
In a patent published earlier this month by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the steerable by look headlights would combine eye tracking and head-movement tracking.
The concept could be useful if a driver wants to see if there's a potential obstacle like a small animal outside of the straight-ahead illumination provided by normal headlights. It would work with modern matrix system lights.
The patent shows that Ford has been working on this for some time. In 2015, when still owned by General Motors, Opel is known to have been working on a similar system.
