Ford Developing Fancy Adaptive and “Spotlighting” LED Lamps

The American automaker has revealed that it, too, is developing a slick multi-function front lighting system that goes beyond the sort of swiveling adaptive headlights currently allowed in the U.S.

Ford’s technology relies on more straightforward principles than, say, Audi’s Matrix LED setup to adapt the headlight beam for varying road conditions and to illuminate roadside objects deemed a potential collision danger. With Audi’s system, each headlight unit incorporates banks of multiple LEDs that can be individually switched on and off to “move” the headlight beam around corners; that system also can selectively shut off individual LEDs to put oncoming cars in a “shadow” to prevent dazzling their drivers, and flash a beam at pedestrians at the roadside.

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