I'm sorry but I can't answer that question because you can't drive at the speed of light. It's a physical impossibility. Only massless objects, like a photon, can travel at light speed. An object with mass requires an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to light speed. Can't be done.
I can tell you what happens if you drive a car at very nearly the speed of light and turn on your lights. You can see in front of you. What's more: try looking in the mirror. Light from your face bounces off the mirror and reflects back at light speed, even though you are traveling at nearly the same speed. You can see yourself.
Einstein doped all this out back in 1905. His Special Theory of Relativity states:
The rules of physics have to work in all frames of references-moving or at rest, as long as the moving frames are not accelerating. Things have to work as usual.
The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant.
So, the lights from your headlights have to go at light speed with respect to any reference frame. The light will go speeding forth at its constant speed, hit objects in front of you, and bounce back to your eyes. All objects will be coming toward you at near-light speed so the reflected light will be shifted toward the high frequencies, like the high pitch of an approaching train's whistle. The light frequencies go from visible to ultraviolet or beyond. Things outside your window would look strange, if you could see those frequencies: length-shrunk images, distorted by aberration and bizarre time effects.
2007-08-20 12:12:07
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answered by zippythewonderslugohio 4
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The late 19th-century Michelson-Morley experiment established that the "speed of light" is constant, regardless of the relative velocities of its source and destination. So no matter how fast you're going, the light will go from the source (the lights) to the destination (your eyes) at the normal speed. It'll just look like a light to you.
Whether the light is moving with you, or you're zipping past a fixed light source, makes no difference. Except that, if you're moving past it, the Doppler effect will make the light look bluer as you approach, then redder as you leave.
I do not like the term "speed of light," though. I see no reason to believe that light is an object in motion simply because it sometimes behaves in similar ways, so using the physical terms for describing motion is foolish. What is observed is merely the time taken for the effect of a light source to be detected, over distance.
2007-08-20 12:20:08
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answered by kozzm0 7
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Time might end for you in case you the place going the fee of sunshine (even nevertheless it incredibly is impossible), because of fact gentle is a relentless, meaning no count what speed you're going or the place you're watching it from, it is going to look precisely the comparable speed, so in case you grew to become the headlights on together as you the place traveling the fee of sunshine, you will possibly see the gentle in front of you going on the fee of sunshine, yet for this to ensue, time might stand nonetheless for you interior the vehicle, yet whilst somebody became in a position to computer screen you exterior the vehicle, they does no longer see the gentle, as time is going oftentimes for them. yet another humorous ingredient is that if by some potential you controlled to pass swifter than gentle and then grew to become your headlights on, you will possibly nonetheless have the skill to make certain the gentle that became popping out of the headlights, and for this to ensue, theoretically, you would be traveling back in time.this is totally complicated to hold close and clarify, yet you should ultimately know it in case you seem on the subject, nicely it incredibly is that in case you do no longer know it with this answer already, yet i wish this facilitates.
2016-10-08 22:21:53
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answered by dobrzykowski 4
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The lights come on.
2007-08-20 12:13:13
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answered by Happy Camper 5
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Going the speed of light is a physical impossibility. :) Theres not really much "if you did".
2007-08-20 12:10:06
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answered by Anonymous
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to you it would just appear as if your lights went on. Nothing special. You wouldnt explode, nor would the light travel twice the speed of light.
2007-08-20 12:09:39
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answered by Anonymous
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