Audi A8 facelifted teases Matrix LED headlights

On August 21, presents the Audi A8 facelifted . Besides the well-known recipe of a facelift debuts a brand new technology on the A8: Matrix LED headlights. You see them clearly through the canvas that the rest of the facelift still need to keep hidden.

Matrix LED technology, what is that exactly? It comes shortly put down to the LED headlights are divided into a number of small individual diodes that work with lenses or reflectors. 25 LEDs per headlamp are posted by the five grouped in a reflector. In the new Audi A8 Instead of a Xenon lamp reflectors so there are five in a row.

Main beam to blind oncoming traffic without
the great advantage of the Matrix LED technology is that you can get much more "play" with the light. You can keep the high beam without being blinding oncoming you. A special camera "sees" oncoming traffic. On this basis, the areas in which the oncoming vehicle will be less strong spotlight. The closer the oncoming vehicle approaches, the more LEDs can be dimmed or turned off. The area around the oncoming vehicle will be fully illuminated.

Safety
But there are other possibilities. For instance, new headlights a marker function in combination with the optional night vision assistant. This assistance system is through infrared cameras capable of recognizing. Pedestrians before the car if a pedestrian is too close to the vehicle, he / she is through LED light flashes (three times in a row) clearly 'marked'. In this way, both the pedestrian and the driver of the car warned of possible danger.

The cornering light of the new Matrix LED system is very innovative. Thanks to information from MMI navigation lights, this already in action just before the driver turns the steering wheel in the right direction. Also, the new "Audi A8" equipped with "dynamic direction". After the driver has indicated, direction lights the LED segments in the direction alternately. This is done at intervals of 150 milliseconds from the inside to the outside in the direction that the car is going on.

Le Mans
as said, the system debuts on the new Audi A8 teaser video which attached a small corner of the veil. Practical experience with Matrix LED is moreover al The Audi R18 e-tron - the 24 Hours of Le Mans - the lighting also on board and thus knows the straights of the famous circuit over a length of up to a kilometer ease.