Have you ever heard of Mercedes MULTIBEAM LED? This tech is literally insane
pop your full beam on at nighttime and it does this!
Hey guys and welcome to my channel my name is Nick O'Leary & today we're looking at
Mercedes-Benz MULTIBEAM LED however to show this off properly I need it to be nighttime!
So then guys adaptive headlights so most people will describe them as like your full beam but
automatic at nighttime but in Mercedes-Benz it takes it just kind of one step further.
So just covering the headlight design first, most cars these days have for example daytime running
lights or even like your side lights so these are the ones that come on automatically usually
during the day you can kind of see the car as in motion and in use.
But at night time you of course need a bit more light than what your side lights or
daytime running lights will offer. This is where the dipped lights come in so you can
actually see where you're going at nighttime however then if you're traveling at speed or
like I am right now in the dead of night, it is very very dark up here right now!
Sometimes you'll need your full beam. Full beam is very very bright you can clearly
see where you're going however it is so bright you can dazzle other road users
so this is where adaptive full beam comes in.
Basically in-built car systems like a Mercedes in this car also known as MULTIBEAM LED
will actually recognise other cars due to where their headlights are
and actually make a little cutout of black around them but put light everywhere else.
It's very difficult to explain so let's just show you how it works...
Now as always guys I do mention that specification does vary and
I know I mention that a lot on my channel
but that's because it does and it definitely varies when it comes to headlamp technology.
So in America did you know that apparently I was reading this in the news the other day
that adaptive headlights just pretty much don't exist so the ones that I've
heard with the branding called Matrix LED's the ones that cause the kind of cut outs of
cars in front of you and you've got full beam over on the right and left but not where the car is
those haven't been allowed and I find it quite amazing actually because i thought that you know
America did have that but that's just one case in point where where spec does vary!
Now of course I have read that that has now changed so I'm guessing manufacturers can
now implement that technology and provide it to the end users of the cars which would be
great because what you're about to see here is some pretty cool tech!
So in this Mercedes-Benz right here we have MULTIBEAM LED
and I do have it enabled right now so if you ever want to know how this works basically
you know when you put your full beam on with the stalk over on the left hand side,
you push it away from you and down on the bottom right you'll have an
automatic "A" symbol appear and what that basically means is now it's on automatic.
So when it's dark enough the car will then automatically put full beam on everywhere
and then what it does is some pretty cool things where it will actually blank out
the car that's coming towards you and track it and move it across
so as I said it's very difficult for me to explain so let's just show you what it looks like.
So here we go then guys this is a full live example for you all so I'm driving of course
in the dead of night and as you can see right here, the lights of this car are just literally
changing and adapting to the car in front so see I've got a full beam, if i go around the corner
here you'll see that it'll make a cut out of all the cars coming towards you and the car in front.
So I've got a full beam over on the left hand side and now full beam over on the right hand
side but watch it'll track that car as it goes around the corner how cool is that?
It's amazing how that happens I mean you have to literally sit here just to see it
in action see as I move around the corner it just keeps that black cut out of where the car
is in front so it basically gives you as much light as possible on the left and the right but
without dazzling other road users and it will just constantly adapt and change all the time.
It's so cool!
Now one other unique feature of MULTIBEAM LED is a thing called Cornering Light. So Cornering Light
basically means that when you're traveling around about under 24 mph and you use your indicator
MULTIBEAM LED will actually illuminate the relevant side of whichever side you
put your indicator on so it just gives you a bit more light over the side when you're
going to make that turn and it's especially useful when it's quite dark at night time!
Now for anyone that paid close attention to their science lessons at school, they'll know that light
travels in a straight line which is great for kind of driving during the dead of night
however if you want to see around a corner well that's sadly that's not that technically possible!
But what Mercedes-Benz do with MULTIBEAM LED is as you turn the steering wheel
you'll notice that the angular kind of lens of the lights will move in conjunction with
the steering wheel and you'll be surprised at how much of a difference that makes!
It's only very subtle but it does make a huge difference especially right now
because this road is very very dark there are no street lights or anything like that. As I said
the only lights here are the ambient lighting which is just kind of illuminating all the
the inside, I've got my headlights and then I've got this light here which
is quite bright but this definitely does help because I can clearly see everything around me.
So watch here as I go around this corner as I turn the steering wheel to the right,
the lights have moved literally straight away...you can see here:
If I move to the left,
to the right,
to the left,
It just moves depending on your steering input.
Now you've all seen this before when you come across a traffic sign,
you'll sometimes find that the reflective material on them is really really bright.
Now not all traffic signs are the same some are kind of bearable but some really shine
back into your eyes and it depends on the angle and I guess to be honest,
the height of your car and the reflective material used on those traffic signs themselves
but again MULTIBEAM LED comes to the rescue if there is sufficient light shining back into your
eyes from that traffic sign the car can actually make a cut out a bit like what it does with the
headlights of oncoming cars and just reduce that glare so it doesn't shine in your face too much.
Mercedes think of everything!
And they really do think of everything as well so even Mercedes-Benz have gone to the efforts of
analysing how much kind of light might come off the road as well
so if it's been raining and you're driving in the dead of night
and the road is a bit shiny with the water there kind of all sat in the road
and sometimes that can be a bit glarey as well so they even reduce the light intensity of that
as well by reducing the lights on the very very bottom of your headlights themselves.
So if that's current technology now how can it get better than this?
Well apparently Mercedes-Benz have made a system called "Digital Light"
which if you recall the MULTIBEAM LED from this video has 84 LED per headlight.
Digital Light has 1.3 million pixels per headlight! So that's 2.6 million per car!
And this system is apparently a 100x better
than MULTIBEAM LED so let me know down below if you'd like me to cover that in a future video!
And there we go guys that concludes this week's video on Mercedes-Benz MULTIBEAM LED!
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