A few ultimate facts about car headlights

Not only car fans, but people from all corners of the world seem to regard the Audi brand as the "number one player" in the automotive lighting industry, and I admit that this is the result of classic marketing cases driven by products again and again, and it is surprisingly successful, which is admirable. But when I read the history of car lights, I realized that although Audi is innovative, it is still too pediatric.

For me to be able to speak so wildly, there must be too many untold stories behind this. Yes, their core comes all from the car lights. At least from my point of view, the people of the past have always been much smarter than the modern people, and the brains they have spent on great achievements must be incomparable to those of the present generation.

The first car to be equipped with electric lights

Originally, the concept of car lights was rudimentary. The royalty and aristocrats with four-wheeled cars had to painstakingly place oil lamps in front of their cars, which provided less than half the range of light for torches. It wasn't until 1915 that Cadillac incorporated electronically controlled headlights into their new models, so that the road in front of the front of the car was illuminated when driving at night.

The first application of car headlight follow-up technology

In order to be able to control the vehicle more precisely at night, the application of headlight follow-up technology is definitely another great invention in automotive products. Many people think that this technology was first equipped on the Citroën DS models of the France, but it is not so simple. According to historical records, the T87 model from the Czech brand Tatra was the first to be equipped with headlights with steering wheel linkage technology, and the "third eye" you can see in the middle of the front is the result of this idea.

Easter eggs in the interior of the headlights

A large part of the Ford's illustrious past is condensed in the Model T, which pioneered the production line, and the GT 40 endurance racer, which is enough to be desired. And Lao Mei is sometimes not as rough as you think. On the body of this Ford GT sports car, which was unveiled in 2003, the United States made a tribute to the brand's centennial birthday with the word "100" hidden in the inner structure of the headlights, although they did not make a big splash, but it was eventually discovered by attentive fans.

The earliest xenon lamp technology

With the rapid development of time, the light source of the headlights began to change. The arrival of xenon headlights has changed people's perception of the light emitted by traditional light bulbs. It works by creating an electric arc between two electrodes and propagating with xenon as a medium. They usually emit an icy white-blue color instead of the yellow light emitted by old-fashioned halogen filaments. The first model to be equipped with xenon headlights was the BMW 7 Series (E32) from 1991, which has been around for 30 years.

The headlights finally got their hands dirty

At this moment, it is finally the turn of the Audi brand to appear, and in order to meet the perennial snow and fog environment in the Nordic region, the lights are always on as one of the traffic regulations. In 2006, the V10-powered Audi S6 was the first to feature a thin LED daytime running light on the front end. So far, the aesthetics of daytime running lights has become a stage for various car companies to scramble.

Since then, Audi has embarked on a path of no return in the field of lamp design. In 2008, after the R8 became the first model in the world to have LED headlights, the R8 V10 LMX Limited Edition, which produced only 99 units, once again became the first model to be equipped with laser headlights, pushing the technology and design of automotive lights to a higher level.