headlights
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Supplier Hyundai Mobis unveiled a lighting system that can project text or images onto the road surface as an extension of in-vehicle driving information or as warnings for pedestrians.
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Select 2003-2020 Porsches recalled for missing headlight coversThe missing headlight covers can misalign headlights to create glare for oncoming drivers or insufficient light coverage for drivers.
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Apple developing headlights that highlight road hazards
Apple has filed to patent another automotive system. This one involves headlights and provides drivers with more information to help keep them safe. Called the "System and Method for Light and Image Projection," the system imagines a few ways to give drivers a better idea of the road ahead by...
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Mercedes-Maybach digital headlights: more than meets the eye
Mercedes-Maybach aims to rethink what a car's headlights can do for the driver and for pedestrians. The brand revealed its digital headlight technology equipped on the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, which better controls regular lighting function, but can also display information on the road itself...
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BMW Laser Headlights To Make Motorsports Debut At Nürburgring 24-Hour Race
BMW says its Z3 GT3 will be the first race car equipped with laser headlights.
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Volvo Reinvents High Beams To Make Night Driving Safer
If you live in the city, chances are good you don’t use your high beams much for night driving, since you’re rarely in an environment where they can be employed without distracting other drivers. If you live in the country, on the other hand, high beams provide a welcome margin of...
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HID headlights have always been a target for thieves, and some brands of automobiles have earned a reputation for being easy to steal from. Such is the case with Porsche, which is why a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge recently approved a class action lawsuit over Porsche’s headlight design. Not every HID headlight stolen winds up in another car, however, as thieves in Amsterdam have recently begun harvesting xenon headlamps from Porsche Cayenne and Panamera models for a decidedly different purpose: growing marijuana. The xenon bulbs used in Porsche’s lighting systems coincidentally...
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BMW Gives Us Three Years Until Laser Headlights
BMW plans to start installing its laser headlights onto production cars within three years.
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Lotus Onslaught, Speeding David Guetta, BMW Laser Headlights: Today’s Car News
Lotus looks set to repeat its Paris performance last year by bringing four new cars, and two new options, to the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in just two weeks’ time. [MotorAuthority] Find out North America’s top 25 speed-trap cities for 2011. [TheCarConnection] We drive the 2011 Kia Optima...
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Move Aside LED Lighting Tech, BMW Is Firing Up The Lasers
Sometimes the pace of development in the automotive segment has echos of Moore's Law, the trend for power in the computing world to double every two years. No sooner have manufacturers such as Audi started ditching halogen and HID lighting for intelligent and ultra-bright LED light clusters in some...
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BMW Develops Laser Headlight Technology
Having already announced the introduction of full LED headlights in its new 6-Series range, BMW is moving onto the next wave of advanced lighting technology for cars: lasers. BMW engineers are currently working on the introduction of laser light in car headlights, with the aim to improve safety as...
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Plug-n-Play LED Lighting On The Way, Gets Brighter, Cheaper
If you spend a lot of time driving you won't have failed to notice the distinctive shape of high intensity LED daytime running lights on some modern vehicles. As for LED tail-lights, those are even more common. Only a small selection of vehicles features entirely LED-based headlights though...
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Following the lead of Audi's other models the R8 supercar, A7 Sportback and A8 luxury sedan, the 2012 Audi A6 executive sedan now comes as standard with all-LED headlights and LED daytime running lights, the latter a feature familiar to most modern Audis. The all-LED lights were first seen on Audi's R8 supercar and the strip of bright white LED daytime running lights (DRLs) will be familiar to you if you've ever been followed down the highway by a recent Audi. This now means that every element of the lights now use LEDs for extra brightness, longer life than conventional bulbs and more...
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High-tech high-beams reduce glare, improve visibility
Everyone has experienced it at some time in their night-driving life: the jerk with the ridiculously bright headlights that makes it impossible to see the road ahead. It's more than a mere annoyance, it's a genuine road hazard, and as vehicles have grown taller and lights brighter, the problem is...
Alex Kaufmann
