Smart cars need future-oriented lighting design

In this year's major electronics exhibitions, cars have surpassed consumer products to become the highlight of electronic innovation. Inside a smart car with a sense of design, the emergence of new technologies such as advanced assisted driving (ADAS), car networking, and new energy will fundamentally change the way we live and travel in the future. As an important part of automotive design, automotive lighting design has also experienced a new design trend driven by smart cars and safe interconnection.

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“In automotive lighting design, the widespread use of solid-state lighting for fashion design, driver-assisted safety and energy saving will be the future trend,” said Li Xiaohe, general manager and senior director of NXP’s automotive solid-state lighting product line, when talking about innovative automotive lighting design. Said: "The future application of safe and connected cars should be rich and colorful. For example, more and more cars will use all-LED headlights or daytime running lights to create a consistent brand element of the whole car; use OLED as the taillight to achieve beautiful Animated effect; use more than 20 LED intelligent nodes to adjust the ambient light in the car; real-time reflection of manual driving, automatic driving, sports mode, energy saving mode, etc.; for example, Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB), Using the camera to detect the vehicle in front, using the LED matrix to achieve multiple shaded areas, avoiding the front light from strong light interference and improving driving safety are all popular design examples."

When talking about the lighting design trends of major automakers, Li Xiaohe further said: “The main engine factory has different routes in promoting solid-state lighting. Europe, which is known for its fashionable design, especially the German models, has flexible design for solid-state lighting. The application of lighting design has become the part of the brand image, which can be regarded as the design language of individuality. The models represented by Japanese are more based on new technology positioning and energy saving and emission reduction. The rate is quietly ahead. But the same way, whether it is Japanese or German, the ADB system is launched on its own technology platform. The ADB system can improve nighttime lighting and give the driver an additional reaction time of about 1.3 seconds, considering the future. More stringent crash test standards will increase the popularity of cameras. The marginal cost of ADB systems as an extension of ADAS will become lower and lower, and may gradually become a standard component of ADAS. In addition, the industry is also studying the use of solid-state lighting. The feasibility of using visible light communication (LiFi) to mobile internet Car2X."

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