Car headlights and projectors seem to have something in common, only one to illuminate the night and the other to project image information. With the development of the technology of the car lights, the car companies have more capital in the headlights. As the inventor of the car, the Daimler Group now combines the headlights with the projectors and mass-produced a name. How cool is the technology of DIGITAL LIGHT? Let's see it together.
The human-computer interaction ability of the car is indeed more and more powerful. We can say that even a gesture can complete some operation of the vehicle. But have you found that this kind of interaction is just staying in the car? In the future, with the gradual upgrading of autonomous driving, the car needs to interact with more road participants. How to complete it? Mercedes-Benz launched the F 015 concept car in 2015 to create a new idea!
The F 015 concept car uses light to project information. When everyone thinks this is still a "sci-fi", the new Maybach S-class (hereafter referred to as the Maybach S-class) actually mass-produced this technology at this year's Geneva Motor Show. - DIGITAL LIGHT.
DIGITAL LIGHT translates directly into “digital Lightingâ€. There are 4 LED lighting units in each of the Maybach S-class headlights. The light source is projected through more than 1 million tiny “mirrors†in a single light group. The road ahead. The headlights on the left and right sides add up to the equivalent of the Maybach S-class capable of projecting more than 2 million pixels.
Such "high-definition" pixel beam for local illumination is a piece of cake. Facing the opposite vehicle or pedestrian, it can intelligently block the light shining on the opposite driver's or pedestrian's eyes. Forgetting to switch far and near light and being smashed "high beam dog" has improved road safety.
The Mercedes-Benz technology is derived from the μAFS project that previously worked with the two companies, but did not disclose who the partners are. In fact, the realization of such a high-pixel lighting system is not the most difficult subject, but the lighting control technology behind it. Of course, Mercedes-Benz is not simply to make the lights look cool, or to compete for the name of "Best Lamp Factory", but to propose their own new theory: the combination of lighting technology and driver assistance systems.
Combining headlamp projection technology with external sensing systems, the vehicle gains the ability to interact more automatically with other traffic participants. For example, while ensuring active safety, the lights can automatically provide feedback to pedestrians, vehicles and even road conditions on the road, giving the driver and other traffic participants two-way information.
——Use light to reflect humane care
- Make the "light" more accurate
The Maybach S-Class lighting technology does not stop at the indicated information interaction function, I think it opens another door for assisted driving technology. Not only can the vehicle tell you that there is danger ahead, but it can also tell you where there is danger and danger. This is like holding a laser pointer in front of the teacher in front of the blackboard, telling us where the focus is.
——The road condition information is directly fed back on the road
On this new Maybach S-Class, traffic information can be projected directly onto the road ahead by headlights, giving drivers more direct visibility into road conditions and driving safer. For example, a snowflake pattern will be projected on a slippery road surface; a warning sign will be displayed on the road surface on the speed limit road; even when facing a construction road without a lane line, it will automatically display two lights of the same width as the vehicle body to assist driving. Passed.
——What kind of cool headlight technology, I am still questioning?
This set of DIGITAL LIGHT headlights of the Maybach S-Class is a technological value burst, adding brand value to this luxury car, but whether these projection information can be used in the actual road, how to use it, etc. Wait, we can't make a conclusion.
The idea of ​​giving the headlights a projection function is not only Daimler’s thoughts. In fact, Audi has been conducting research on related aspects. Only Audi, dubbed the "light factory", has not yet produced a mass production product, but Daimler took the lead to load it into the real car. I believe that its set of headlights is currently expensive, so that only the current stage The Maybach S-class can afford such a cost. In the future, the two German car companies will be able to promote the technology more extensively and cost-effectively. It is not necessarily who can win the future.
to sum up
As for the actual experience of the new Maybach S-Class headlights, we don't have to say much now, but in the context of the increasingly high-level driver-assisted era, the way it uses lights to interact with the outside environment is a new idea. The Maybach S-class mass production is undoubtedly a new direction for the future, but at present the cost of this technology is still difficult to bear by ordinary passenger cars, not to mention the later maintenance costs. In the foreseeable future, the headlights with projector function are no longer the bridges in science fiction.
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