The new Prius uses
LED projector headlights. The previous used H4/9003 dual beams.
you mean reflector HIDs
Knowing Toyota, they are probably lifted out of the Camry-so small gauge wiring with H11s.
Not gonna say anything about the std option, but the LED option is definitely not an H11 projector. It had to be engineered specifically for headlight function.
I'd like to see ECE projectors, with an H7, with appropriate wiring.
toyota has efficiency and green-ness in mind with the prius. Seems like they ought to use HID or LED.
'The pics were taken in Manual, with ISO400, white balance set to daylight, no flash and an exposure time of 1 second. I also locked the exposure as described in the other thread.'
If the halogen lights only have half the light to work with (and use only one projector aperture), it looks like they have an appropriate distribution (but we still need the isoscans)
I'd like to see LEDs replace HIDs, but only if the CRI splits the difference between HIDs and modern halogens.
would be nice to get higher cri HID than what is currently offered. Sure, black road, white lines, but the creatures and peoples on the side of the road are usually not so obvious. Higher CRIwould help in this regard.
LEDs have jumped markedly in quantity [mc-e, xp-g, luminous, osram ostar], now it is time to offer 'quality'.
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/srp-download.aspx?id=64011
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/srp-download.aspx?id=64036