AL-Automotive Lighting have developed an application for Apple iPhones, the first to provide integrated torch functionality with visualisation of vehicle lighting. It’s called Automotive Lighting , and it is free to download and use.
Users get the opportunity to personalise a car they might want by selecting and seeing different body colours, and move the car forward and backward by swiping on the pad. This gives the chance to see different front and rear lighting technologies: incandescent bulbs, LEDs, Xenons. The prospective gets a visual presentation of the various performance parameters of the different lighting systems.
By using touch buttons on the screen underneath his selected car, the iPhone 4’s white LED photoflash lamp can be switched on for use as a convenient torch, and the front and rear lighting system on the displayed car light at the same time. A pulse/flash function is available as well, which AL say can be used for signaling information to partners in crowds or across distances. It can be used, say AL, during demonstrations, at nightclubs, and at sporting events.
AL have already convinced a premium carmaker with this application of the idea to develop an enhanced version of a similar application for use in vehicle lighting training. And in early 2012, an iPad app will be released, in which will be reported the market introduction of an intelligent lighting system supported with aesthetic, performance-related, and functional benefits of high performance lighting systems.
DVN applauds this achievement towards our crucial goal to educate the public and promote all our hard work to offer improved car lights. We muse at the prospects for further developments along this line. Perhaps eventually there could be dynamic video animations for all of a vehicle’s lighting functions.
