Lighting and Visibility Technologies

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While you're still turning the steering wheel, the headlights swiveling with stepper motors have already illuminated the inside of the corner.

How Does the Adaptive Headlight System Illuminate the Road in Corners?

Lütfi Mete Odabaşı14 October 2026

The adaptive front-lighting system (AFS) is a lighting system that reads steering angle and vehicle speed data to physically rotate the headlight modules on the horizontal axis. The goal is simple: to make the light beam point in the direction of the…

Matrix high beam keeps illuminating the rest of the road with the high beam while dimming the LED segments that fall onto the oncoming vehicle.

How Does Matrix Night Protect Other Drivers' Eyes?

Lütfi Mete Odabaşı13 October 2026

Matrix headlights are an adaptive driving beam (ADB) system that divides the high beam into dozens or even thousands of independently controllable LED segments. It dims or completely shuts off the LEDs that fall on oncoming or preceding vehicles dete…

Electrochromic glass, which has no single moving part, darkens at the touch of a button by moving lithium ions between its layers, and becomes clear again with another press of that same button.

Engineering Electrochromic Glass: Cars with Dimming Windows

Lütfi Mete Odabaşı12 October 2026

Electrochromic glass is a smart glass technology that permanently darkens in color when a small voltage is applied, and becomes clear again when the voltage is reversed. It contains no moving parts whatsoever; the job is done by lithium ions travelin…

Thermal night vision systems, by capturing the body heat of pedestrians and animals even in complete darkness where headlight beams cannot reach, are becoming a critical safety layer in preventing pedestrian accidents.

Night Vision and Thermal Camera Systems in Cars

Lütfi Mete Odabaşı11 October 2026

A night vision system is a thermal camera setup that, in the darkness beyond what the vehicle's headlights can see, detects the heat emitted by pedestrians, animals, and vehicles and displays it as an image on a screen. Working with long-wave infrare…

Laser headlights illuminate the road by converting blue laser light into white light using a phosphor; every step in headlight technology is actually a physics experiment.

From Halogen to Laser Headlights, A Guide to Vehicle Lighting Technologies

Lütfi Mete Odabaşı11 October 2026

Vehicle headlights fall into five main technologies: halogen, xenon (HID), LED, matrix LED, and laser: Halogen works by heating a tungsten filament to incandescence, xenon by an electric arc within gas, LED by electrons passing through semiconductors…