The current convergence of vision, safety and other systems in the automobile presents the entire industry with challenges on a never-before-seen scale. The growing synergy of Lighting and ADAS merging into comprehensive driver vision systems requires new approaches, tools, and talent to successfully shepherd their development, testing and homologation.
Last week we published our second report about ADAS and lighting technologies. This report describes how the automotive market world is presently in the midst of a massive revolution, one which is making personal transportation safer than ever. ADAS, using cameras, radar, lidar and ultrasonics as sensors, are now emerging from more than a decade as mostly low volume curiosities; now they’re moving into the realm of standard equipment throughout the developed world. New lighting systems are evolving with Adaptive Driving Beam, matrix, pixel, and laser scanning which tailor the lighting profile to give the driver high-beam seeing while other drivers experience only low-beam glare.
Moreover, communication amongst vehicles, infrastructure, and the cloud (V2X) will complement the ADAS and lighting systems. This enormous and complex constellation of information and control systems within and outside the vehicle must be harnessed and moulded to significantly reduce traffic fatalities. But exactly how?
And, to put a point on it, how will autonomous and semi-autonomous cars affect the design of lighting systems? It is a very important question our whole community is working on. DVN will organize soon a tech-day wherein this question and three others ones will be discussed in lectures followed by panel sessions
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief