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Automatic Vehicle High-Beam Headlamp Control System
Technical Paper
2001-01-0318
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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SAE 2001 World Congress
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English
Abstract
Automating the task of high beam switching will significantly improve nighttime driving safety, especially for pedestrians, by providing the maximum amount of illumination possible for a given driving condition while not exposing an oncoming or preceding driver to an uncomfortable level of glare. While there have been many prior attempts to perform this task, these systems have been plagued by their inability to detect distant taillamps and by their tendency to switch to low beams for reasons other than the presence of other vehicles. This paper will describe a new device which overcomes these limitations through the use of an image processing system which detects other traffic and switches the high beams accordingly.
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Citation
Stam, J., "Automatic Vehicle High-Beam Headlamp Control System," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0318, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-0318.Also In
SAE 2001 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars - Electronic and Electrical Systems
Number: V110-7; Published: 2002-09-15
Number: V110-7; Published: 2002-09-15
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