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Adaptive Light Pattern - A New Way to Improve Light Quality
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In most cases of night time driving the low beam light function is used for the road illumination in front of the car. This conventional low beam function has a constant light pattern: no matter whether the driver is actually driving on a straight or curvy road, whether the road is wet or dry, always the same beam pattern is applied. Test experiences of the last years prove that a headlamp with an „adaptive light pattern” having different optimum light pattern adapted to different driving situations should give a better illumination than the conventional constant low beam pattern which can only be a compromise.
In this paper an outline of the basic idea of the „adaptive light pattern” is given. Different driving situations and their corresponding optimum light pattern, basic technical concepts and the legal situation regarding homologation of such an advanced lighting system will be discussed.
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Hogrefe, H. and Neumann, R., "Adaptive Light Pattern - A New Way to Improve Light Quality," SAE Technical Paper 970644, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970644.Also In
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