Intelligent rear light for compensation of environmental effects on car visibility

Roman Gruner; Jorg Schubert

doi:10.1117/12.516433

12 January 2004 Intelligent rear light for compensation of environmental effects on car visibility

Roman Gruner, Jorg Schubert

Proceedings Volume 5240, Laser Radar Technology for Remote Sensing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.516433
Event: Remote Sensing, 2003, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

LIDAR remote sensing technology has not only applications in geographical, atmospheric or biological sciences but it can also play an important role in the everyday life. Within the last 10 years statistics of European car traffic has shown that about one third of all accidents go back to darkness and poor road conditions. A system collecting information about visibility and distance to following vehicles and setting appropriate rear light intensities could provide a much safer road travel under various environmental conditions. The system that is being developed co-operates with a dirt and brightness sensor to take into account these various external influences on an automobile and applies them to the operation of the rear light. The developed sensors are integrated in an advanced micro-system and capable of providing external environmental data for automatic brightness control within a requested range of light output for constant perceptibility of light signals to the following traffic. This conference gives further information about: (1) construction, optical and laser parameters, (2) application in rear light systems, (3) measurement characteristics, (4) test equipment (LIDAR_Probe), (5) measurement results, test rides, raw data.

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Roman Gruner and Jorg Schubert "Intelligent rear light for compensation of environmental effects on car visibility", Proc. SPIE 5240, Laser Radar Technology for Remote Sensing, (12 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.516433

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