Advanced Lighting Technology for Vehicles (Paperback)

This book contains papers presented at the following sessions of the SAE 2002 World Congress: Lighting Technology: Evaluation for Automotive Lighting Performance; Lighting Technology: Update on LED Lighting Technologies; Lighting Technology: Adaptive Lighting and Lighting Technology Trends; Lighting Technology: Advanced Automotive Lighting Designs; Lighting Technology: Light Source Improvements; Human Factors in Driver Vision and Lighting. Contents: Discomfort and Disability Glare from Halogen and HID Headlamp Systems; Neodymium Oxide Doped Windshields; Distance Perception in Camera-Based Rear Vision Systems; Predicting the Image Stability Rating for and Automotive Side View Mirror System; Development of Apparatus to Evaluate Visibility in Fog; Visual Benefits of High-Intensity Discharge Automotive Forward Lighting; A Recommendation for the U.S. Lower-Beam Pattern for Visual/Optically Aimable Headlamp; Subjective Color Preferences of Common Road Sign Materials Under Headlamp Bulb Illumination; High-Beam and Low-Beam Headlighting Patterns in the U.S. and Europe at the Turn of the Millennium; Rear Lamp Reaction Time Study-Comparison of Incandescent Bulbs and LEDs; Power LEDs for Automotive Exterior Lighting; Performance Considerations for LED Automotive Signal Lamps; Characterization and Qualifying and LED for Automotive Exterior Lamps; Ultra-Thin Automotive Lamp (8-12mm) Using Special SMT LEDs and Special Optics; Regulatory Issues for Signal and Marker Lamps Using Light Emitting Diodes; Benefits of Applying Adaptive Headlighting to the Current U. S. and European Low-Beam Patterns; Control Strategies and Fail-Safe-Concepts for Adaptive Lighting Systems; Adaptive Lighting Functions History and Future - Performance Investigations and Field Test for User's Acceptance; Development of Narrow Headlamps by Combining Free Formed Surface System with Projector System; Lighting Strategy Proposal for a Lighting Strategy - The Car Makers Point of View; Analysis of Lightguides Regarding Uniform Appearance and Coupling Efficiency; Effects of Sweeping, Color and Luminance Distribution on Response to Automotive Stop Lamps; Temperature Loads in Headlamps; Scattered Light Predictions for Aluminum Painted Reflectors in Automotive Tail Lamps; On the Removal of Mercury from Automotive HID Lamps: A Technical and Regulatory Perspective; Simulating the Diffuse Interior Lighting Situation and Examining Its Results in a Virtual Reality Environment; A Mercury Free CFL Backlight for Car-Navigation Display; Distributive Lighting Systems for Interior Applications; Night Driving Headlamps in the Virtual World: The Implementation of a Physically Exact Real-Time Simulator for Headlamp Analysis.