What is Distrubuted Ligting Systems (DLS)?
The intention is to move bulb away from headlamps into a common, very powerful source. Weight will be saved because fibre optic wires are lighter than copper. Amount of bulbs will be saved. Fibre cable is terminated into a fresnel type lense which shapes the beam output. There are a number of prototypes out there, but they’re still experimental. For a full-blown AFS lighting system (see further down), they’d be great, since the aiming motors would only have to move the light pipes, without moving the heavy, bulky fixtures. This would make the headlight “stylists” (and marketing people) happy too, since there wouldn’t be any ugly clearance gaps between the moving part of the headlight and the surrounds. How does a Vario-Xenon (Hella trademark) system work? This is a future headlight system that will adapt to all kinds of conditions. It has varoius sensors that make headlights adapt light distrubution according to ambient light, speed, steering wheel position, and possibly GPS coordinate
