LED: Automotive LED implementation and the automotive market

"Fourtitude" has a nice technical report about the automotive LED implementation and the automotive market.

Today, automobile manufacturers are wooing customers with cars that are safer, more environmentally friendly, better designed and more fuel efficient than ever. These new models must also conform to the latest legislation, resulting in the implementation of new technology. In the US, for example, by 2007 all new registered cars will be fitted with a tire-pressure monitoring system. Fulfilling the separate demands from consumers and governments will require greater optical content within the automobile.

The LED is one of the optical components that will be increasingly used in cars, providing improvements to safety and design. While significant market penetration has already been seen through automobile internal lighting with standard LEDs (table 1), their high-brightness counterparts will benefit from the next big market opportunity: external rear- and front-lighting systems, such as headlights, low beams, turning lights, sidelights and daytime lamps. This area is a fashionable research topic, with emphasis directed toward decreasing price and increasing performance.

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Source: Fourtitude

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