Two weeks ago we released our latest DVN Report on ADB. We repeat ourselves because this is important: familiarise yourself with the feedback of lighting experts about ADB and the main important points—we reprise them in this week’s news.
I’ve driven a lot of ADB-equipped cars, and always I have had the same feeling: the resolution has to be improved. The shadow area is still too wide—much larger than the car we want to protect from glare—and too deep; we see the cutoff far from the opposite car and too close to our own ADB-equipped car.
Clearly ADB is the way forward for improving roadway safety by making it easier for drivers to see what they must. Matrix is one solution for LED headlamps; pixel is another and in the future DMD, LCD, and MEMS scanning.
I drove for the first time a car equipped with ZKW headlamps with DMD technology and I am now convinced it has a good potential. We are still early in the evolution of ADB and the future will surely bring many novel solutions beyond what we can imagine today.
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief