Audi showcases lighting technology

MANILA, Philippines - Audi is presenting a fascinating technology concept car at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA. The Audi Sport quattro laserlight concept is reminiscent of the classic Sport quattro of 1983 while pointing towards the future—with the latest of the brand’s technologies in plug-in hybrid drives, user control and display interfaces and lighting technology.

Audi is demonstrating the future of lighting technology by combining MatrixBeam LED and laser light technologies. Two low-profile trapezoidal elements are visible within the headlights—the outer one generates the low beam light using MatrixBeam LEDs, while the inner element produces laser light for the high beam. The powerful laser diodes are significantly smaller than LEDs; they are only a few microns in diameter. Illuminating the road for a distance of nearly 500 meters, the laser high-beam light has approximately twice the lighting range and three times the luminosity of LED high beam lights.