Intermap Technologies announced a collaboration with Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. regarding a predictive front lighting system based on Intermap’s reliable 3D road geometries.
The partnership integrates Intermap’s high-resolution 3D road geometries, and information supplied by camera systems in an automobile, into Hella’s front lighting demonstration system – ultimately providing a significant increase in visibility for drivers at night and during inclement weather by automatically directing the headlamp before the driver manually steers the vehicle into a bend or up and down a slope.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, adaptive headlight systems are meant to improve visibility on curved roads. Accidents related to this type of driving account for four percent of front-to-rear, single-driver, and sideswipe same direction crashes in the U.S. – or approximately 143,000 per year. Adaptive headlight systems could help reduce the number of related fatal crashes from the nearly 2,500 currently in the U.S. every year.
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