For the engineers and experts who could not attend VISION 2012, or for the attendants who did not catch all the information, we are pleased to release a photo-illustrated report summarising significant topics from this lighting congress.
In around 100 pages, Driving Vision News explain and comment the main topics presented at this congress. Don’t miss this reference report which highlights the main innovations in automotive lighting technologies and helps identifying the main players.
This year, VISION’s lectures, posters, night-drive demonstrations, booths, and for the first time technological presentations, combined to make an exceptional congress on new technologies with emphasis on the unprecedented speed and preoliferation of new and newly-mature technologies and techniques. Around 400 people attended.
The lectures cover:
• LED technology and its continuing improvements in optics, thermics, electronics, architecture, and power savings.
• Adaptive light systems, evolving very fast with the arrival of cameras to implement the several corresponding adaptive systems.
• Systems combining LED and adaptive light including LED arrays.
• Driver assistance systems combining ADAS and lighting
In the second part of the report, we present the drive night tests, with the main points
• Performance differential with HID or LED is such that driving at night in bad weather with legal halogen headlamps can legitimately be considered dangerous;
• LED headlamps have evolved significantly since the 2010 demonstration, and can produce a good light effectively equal to HID in terms of coverage and beam flux.
• Glare-free high beam is at long last a dependable, high-performance feature which permits maximum possible seeing range at all times for the driver, even in traffic.
In the third part, we summarise the best technical presentations, presentations introduced for the first time at VISION this year.
The author closes the report with pictures of this VISION 2012 lighting community gathering more than 250 people during 2 days and one night, talking about automotive lighting.
Give it a look!
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief