Adaptive Highbeam Assist – the Intelligent Headlamp

Adaptive Highbeam Assist from Mercedes-Benz makes night-time driving even safer. The system adjusts the headlamp range automatically to the distance of oncoming traffic or vehicles in front with their lights on. This provides the driver with the ideal headlamp range at all times, enabling better and earlier recognition of the course of the road, pedestrians or other dangers.

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Adaptive Highbeam Assist: The new Adaptive Highbeam Assist system adjusts the headlamp range automatically in line with the distance to oncoming vehicles or vehicles ahead.

Enlarge   Adaptive Highbeam Assist: This system detects oncoming vehicles or moving vehicles in front with their lights on and then adjusts the headlamps so that the beam of light ends before these other vehicles. The Adaptive Highbeam Assist from Mercedes-Benz is based on a camera on the inside of the front windscreen which monitors the traffic situation in front of the car. An intelligent image processing algorithm enables the camera to identify other vehicles and to calculate their distances. The range of the variably adjustable bi-xenon headlamps is set accordingly and adjusted continuously according to the distance of the vehicle ahead or oncoming traffic.

The system is extremely fast, relaying fresh data to the headlamps every 40 milliseconds. On the basis of this information, the headlamps are switched to low beam and the range of the adjustable bi-xenon headlamps in dipped-beam mode is set within a maximum reach of 300 metres and continuously adapted to the prevailing traffic situation. When the system detects that the road ahead is clear, high beam is activated automatically. Adaptive Highbeam Assist is available at speeds of 55 km/h and over. Once it has been switched on it operates fully automatically.