Glare Free Headlamp - First Approach and System Definition

In Automotive Lighting, we have spent some time in the last years to discuss on the styling opportunities by introducing LED Light Sources instead of Halogen and/or Xenon bulbs.

The appearance and the signature of a given vehicle defined by dedicated lighting equipment were and is still today a very important topic to develop a competitive vehicle. The light performance is under these boundary conditions a question of second priority. This is also valid, because lighting suppliers and car manufacturers achieved in the past decade a lot of improvements and have reached a level of performance, which is comfortable overall for the consumers.

The issue with glare, which everybody has when driving at night is already accepted today as a given fact.

This paper tries to define the next steps lighting suppliers need to take in order to improve this glare issue by considering alternative solutions.