Ford Intelligent Lighting System Detects Pedestrians

Smart cars can not only be reflected in more versatile on-board systems. How to make cars more safe for drivers and pedestrians is also a hot spot for the development of smart cars. Just recently, the famous automobile manufacturer Ford launched an intelligent lighting system called Spot Lighting, which can help drivers to better avoid pedestrians and other obstacles when driving at night.

Friends who have experience of driving at night must know that the headlights can only illuminate the road ahead in the direction when the car goes straight. The front side of the vehicle is still dark, but pedestrians sometimes appear in this area until the driver finds it. Maybe it's too late. To avoid this potential safety hazard, Ford added an infrared imager to the Spot Lighting lighting system. The system was able to determine the location of the pedestrian and assess its danger by detecting the heat source. After that, the fog lamp below the headlights would be turned on. Drivers see potential dangers.

Not only that, thanks to Ford's adaptive lighting technology and traffic sign recognition technology, Spot Lighting can also use the camera mounted on the rearview mirror and GPS to automatically determine the road conditions, and adjust the lighting parameters such as beam width, such as in the turn Or increase the lighting range when crossing the intersection. At the same time, these parameters are also recorded and can be called automatically when the vehicle passes through it again. It is somewhat regrettable that Ford said that the current smart lighting system is still in the prototype test phase, so the possibility of debut in the next generation of Ford models is unlikely.