Environment Adaptive Automotive Headlight

Driving at night can be up to three times more dangerous than daytime driving This is due to decreased reaction time caused visual impairments such as lack of illumination and flash blindness. A lack of illumination limits the sight distance as well as depth perception and peripheral vision of the driver leading to decreased reaction times. Our project is an automotive headlight that adapts to it's surroundings. The headlight dims certain areas of it's beam path in order to not blind oncoming cars while still shining light on the areas around to give illumination to your surroundings. This is possible because of the many leds pointed in different directions on the device. Once an oncoming light source is detected, the leds shining in that direction are dimmed. Detection is made possible by an on unit camera, a light sensor, and a water/fog sensor to detect rain or fog. In total, there are 9 leds on our unit. Two high beam, five low beam, and two fog lights.