Audi Digital Matrix LED real-life test at night on highway, country roads (review) :: [1001cars]
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2022
- Audi A8/ S8 and Audi Q8 e-tron S can be equipped with Audi Matrix LED - Audi Digital Matrix Light. By default, the light switch is set to Automatic and the high beams are on every time when it is possible. The system is switched on outside of urban areas (or - it depends on the country law - when there is no street lights) at speeds of 30 km/h (18.6 mph) and above. As soon as the camera on the windshield detects other vehicles or city limits, the controller switches off individual points of light or dims them in over a dozen stages, creating several possible light patterns. The Digital Matrix LED light masks out other vehicles while continuing to fully illuminate the zones between and adjacent to them. Digital Matrix LED headlights use DMD technology (digital micromirror device). Each headlight has approximately 1.3 million micromirrors that break down the light of a particularly powerful LED into tiny pixels. The lane and orientation lighting emits a carpet of light that illuminates the driver's own lane particularly brightly. Check real-life test and review of Audi A8 and Q8 e-tron Digital Matrix LED.
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Great video. What would also be great is if we could see what this lighting system looks like from the perspective of oncoming drivers.
it looks amazing, I've driven about 30 or even more kilimeters in front of a newer skoda with the same system in my mk3 golf and all I can say is that you see everything in front amazingly better because of the car behind you and you don't get shined in the eyes amonst at all
U will still be glare by the light 😂😂
Yes the beam is dip on your section but who say high beam need to shine directly to be blinding
@@mahchunteng9434 It's not blinding you if the beam doesn't focused into your eyes... So the sun is always blinding you as well.... Oh man... Yes, if you focus on it on purpose of course it will but use your brain come on! :D
@@dobringeorgiev4934 That's cool af. i think LED headlights are becoming too bright and it's not about crazy dudes installing LEDs in their old halogen headlights - most of the time i get blinded by newer cars optics of which is simply too bright. That system would nullify the problem if car manufacturer cares about it and tries to make it cheaper to put to non-premium cars.
I can tell you. You get blinded. Because it rarely works in every case.
This kind of stuff always astonishes me, incredible engineering. And a real safety benefit. Tried it out in a Q8 and its so helpful and reliable.
Q8 has even higher/more advanced matrix lights like lower audi class models..
what about service cost? a kidney and half of my unborn child?
@@swd6430 Whole unborn child would fill only like half price for one light. Sorry.
@@swd6430 its simple rich guy gets car no problems in warranty after that poor guy buys it and if you cant service it dont buy car its so simple. Buy a cheap car and be happy you dont need matrix LED
Finally a decent German car. They aren't known for their proper engineering, after all. 😅
If you look closely, it blinds every single car the moment it is right in front of the Audi. Exactly what I experience on the roads aswell. I ALWAYS get blinded in the last second when driving past a new Audi or Mercedes with Matrix.
THIS! Everyone says it's great engineering, well it is not. All audi's with these headlights blind me, all the time. It's horrible when you drive towards it.
And BMW blind others by default :(
@@bartekmachaj loll
I have same problem on my old car with halogen, because if you have shitty headlights your eyes adapt to their low brightness, and you always get blinded by any led or xenon car. Now i have car with high brightness led headlights, and I dont care about any car in front of me, even if they shine high beam directly in eyes.)
@@MZhBOSS Looks like now your eyes are permanently blinded by poor quality headlights. And you'll have a poor perception of any other side, but overly illuminated front side of your vehicle. Which makes night driving extremely dangerous.
I have an S4 with Matrix and I never get bored of it pointing lights up at roadsides and tracking them. It's very cool.
i turn mine on and off to entertain others around me as well as myself, ofcourse 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i got an audi aswell with Matrix LED, but i dont use it often, because when turning or agains truck drivers the system is still blinding many people. I mean its reliable on straight road's with traffic up front, but not rly in turning or highway usses. Because of it blinding truck drivers on highways almost every time. I got many headlight flashes from trucks with it on. If it gets better in the future i will use it too, but i want to prevent accidental crashes.
Same issue with my E class, but it works perfect when I drive at night through woods or hills with no illumination at all. It’s a shame because this is a damn expensive optional on the Mercedes
exact same thing with the bmw ones
It happens because the camera does not see the incoming traffic on highway because the rails cover their headlights and since the truck drivers sit higher above the rails, they are blinded. I have BMW and it happens all the time sadly otherwise it works well, even when turning
@@MarSaso i though about writing the exact same thing, I confirm same thing happens with my E class
Edit: my other car the Volvo S90 has got the same headlight system and it is an actual mess, the beam moves like a search light it gets annoying sometimes lol
Also happens on my Mazda CX-9. Not very practical on bends
wait but did you see at 4:08 that split moment of blindness that on coming van had.... their windshield was lit up
That is pretty cool. 2 things I learned in this video..... 1. Dynamic headlights are getting pretty cool. 2. Most people don't bother to ever aim their headlights properly.
Bardzo dziękuję - super robota z tym testem. Doskonale widać jak działa ta technika :-)
4:08 the moment the guy in the van went from darkness to Creation
very happy about it i guess
@@mattaut88 Этот свет слепит встречный транспорт в конце. Технология требует доработки. Эти доли секунд сильного ослепления могут привести к аварии.
It's amazing how far the Germans are in lighting tech. I have a 2014 E Class with an early version of this. At 9 years old it's so quick to react and precise. Never been flashed. It works on a slightly different principle with more moving parts but it's always cool to see it in action. The newer Mercs even adjust for rain to prevent road glare, it adjusts for signs to prevent sign glare, etc. So cool.
I always get blinded from those newer car lights. No matter if in a car myself or as a pedestrian. it's ridiculous. Especially those SUVs with their high ass lights. Should be illegal. It drives me nuts.
@@fargoththemoonsugarmaniac I feel the German cars don't really do that. The offenders are the Japanese cars especially Toyota's SUVs. It's like their engineers didn't adjust them for the height of the vehicle. From Korea, Hyundai and Kia aren't bad since they do the split headlight thing and the main beams are lower down than other SUVs. Mercedes has taken things further now where the lights adjust for topography. So if the car is at the crest of a hill, usually the lights temporarily blind people coming ahead. But they now adjust downwards to prevent that.
@@fargoththemoonsugarmaniac I had passat B8 with adaptive led lights, touareg with matrix and now auti sq8 with matrix. I never blinded anyone from opposite direction.
@@fargoththemoonsugarmaniac yea I have a newer GM product my car always blinds people with just low beams on but it seems like Newer Ford vehicles do the same I'm also getting blinded by them all the time
@@fargoththemoonsugarmaniac it's also people who use the wrong bulbs. My mercedes will actually adjust my headlights to another drivers level. Not only are they matrix but they move up and down.
Great and informative video, great that you mentioned the C4 body with the first xenon...
2:02 That Deer is waiting until its safe to cross the street. Respect 🙌
Awesome lightning technology and great movie about it
Incredible technology - that's true. But according to me each car/driver who pass the car with theses lights system was blinded! That's film showed it perfectly because I can see faces driver's and interior each car which is passed.
I very often exercising blinding by car light which is equipped in similar system.
It's great but something need to be upgraded. 👍
Of course they were. The working zone of the matrix is like 60 degrees ahead.
So oncoming cars are blinded maybe 10 meters before they pass you, when they get out of the matrix working zone.
but the thing is how bad this blinding is if it takes like 0,5s? maybe not really a big issue
@@LaggerSVKIt is horrible when you pass through these cars. I encountered one of those for the first time yesterday and it DID blind me. I stayed with those bright spots in my sight for a few seconds after passing the car and it certainly reduced my sight. Flashing is probably worse as it is sudden and in proximity which doesn't give your eyes time to adapt (close pupils) as it happens when someone approaches you with high beams from a distance. It was certainly worse than what I normally experience with drivers who use high beams all the time.
It is, IMHO, one of those "if I'm better others can get f* for all I that I care" attitudes.
@@davidcesarino i had a mercedes following me with these for a few kms on rural and it worked remarkably well. Hadnt issues. Always in shadow.
@@LaggerSVK Great. Hopefully this is just an Audi thing.
basic concept of headlights have evolved so much. Crazy.
Beautiful! I want that lights on my Matiz.
Man cause this technology i love audi. Thanks for the video mate
Absolute awesome Video about Digital Light. I overthink to buy the new C-Class with Digital Light, which is very similar... but your video shows me again, how awesome this technologie is. Thanks for the work.
Notice how the demonstration does not show the result from the approaching cars? This should tell you more than enough.
I was searching for that question and there isn’t a Video from that perspective
The Jaguar i-Pace has matrix headlights. Its amazing, the beams shine around oncoming traffic and signs get illuminated.
Wow, już to wcześniej widziałem ale teraz dopiero widzę jak to działa w wielu różnych sytuacjach. Zupełnie nowy wymiar świateł.
PS: zwierzyny się trochę błąkało na poboczu :)
Fauna straszy na poboczach jak na zamówienie ;)
Wow . . .that’s incredible light technology
Jestem wielkim fanem aktywnych, adaptacyjnych reflektorów. Od lat jeżdżę często nocami, przez wiele lat narzekałem na brak postępu w oświetleniu samochodowym. Na szczęście kilka lat temu nastąpił przełom. Mam Astrę z Intellilux, Passata z Top Led i cieszę się każdym kilometrem, przejechanym w nocy. Te światła są wyraźnie lepsze, od wspomnianych powyżej. Obejrzałem cały film z uśmiechem na twarzy. Dzięki za świetne nagranie. Pozdrowienia.
I w którym więcej mrygają? Bo wg mnie chyba jednak Astra ma lepsze światła, albo inaczej: Passat parę razy mnie oślepił na trasie, choć ma bez porównania bardziej zaawansowany system.
Ale cenię podejście. Ja również jestem fanem wszelakich rozwiązań, które tylko pozwalają jeździć bezpieczniej. Dziwią mnie ludzie, dla których A6 musi mieć przede wszystkim automat, skórę... Dla mnie właśnie takie rzeczy jak matrycowe światła (choć wciąż niedoskonałe), ESP, ABS, 4ws, aerodynamika (docisk), amortyzatory adaptacyjne itp itd, czy... termowizja.
I właśnie o tym chciałem. Tak jak matrycowe światła są pewnym krokiem naprzód, krokiem (który wciąż jest dopracowywany), tak night vision to wjazd w przyszłość razem z drzwiami. Ogromny postęp jeśli chodzi o podróże nocą, ale... własnie. Taki choćby VW. Ma night vision, ale do Passata go nie chce dać. ☹ To samo Audi, BMW (lekko wycofujące się z niego), Peugeot... Ford testował i... porzucił. Ma-sa-kra.
Wracając do świateł matrycowych, może niektórzy producenci zbyt agresywnie je ustawiają? Niech chociaż prawą stronę odpowiednio kawałek oświetlą. Podobnie jak to robiły auta z grupy VW (xenon+przesłony), zanim weszły matryce.
Ja się niestety nie zgodzę do końca. Fajne to jest dla kierowcy pojazdu z takimi światłami to przyznaję, chociaż miałem okazję jeździć tylko z takimi matrixami w poliftowym superbie mojego Taty, więc to nie jest najwyższa półka. Jednak dla innych kierowców to dramat. Kiedy widzę że ktoś jedzie naprzeciwko za zakrętem to wyłączam długie światła wcześniej żeby nikomu nie walić po oczach. Tutaj kamera musi mnie zobaczyć więc już jest moment oślepiania, następny to moment kiedy się mijamy, na koniec zawsze samochód z matrixami mnie oślepi. Nie mówię już o tym że cały czas kiedy te światła próbują utrzymać mnie w cieniu to mam wrażenie na granicy oślepiania mnie. Jazda przed takim samochodem też nie jest komfortowa. Na szczęście krótkie mignięcie długimi powoduje że takie matrixy w samochodzie który mnie oślepia szybko się wyłączają:D
Sam mam tylko automatyczne włączanie długich świateł i nie korzystam z tego bo widziałem że oślepiałem innych przez moment a ledy z leona potrafią walić po oczach jak nieszczęście.
@@yosephtbg No niestety - mam podobne doświadczenia. Ale mam też nadzieję, że pojawi się tryb, w którym kierowca będzie we właściwym momencie wyłączał "długie", a komputer w samochodzie uczył się od niego. Do tego czasu pozostanie nucić Skaldów ♪♫ Nie oślepiaj, włącz światła mijania! ♫♪.
Gotta love the technology in Audi's Matrix LED headlight systems! 🙌
Tidak mengejutkan.
Begitulah Insinyur Jerman, selalu terbaik dalam industri otomotif.
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Wow. This is life saving technology for sure.
It seems that the oncoming drivers get a blast of high beam just as they get to the front of the audi. Notice how you can see the inside of the oncoming car and driver right as they pass
Awesome looks super safe and smart
2:05, i love it how perfectly (not) this system works for the oncomming traffic
Again great video!!
Absolutely amazing 👌🏻👌🏻
impressive lighting technology！
Imponujące, że na tak dziurawej drodze system dalej efektywnie wycina auta jadące z naprzeciwka.
Z trudem przyznaję, że działa to lepiej, niż lasery u mnie. Głównie z uwagi na fakt, iż lasery odpalane są niezmiernie rzadko.
I still reckon this is really bright for oncoming drivers
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Great video...well explained
The only downside that i found out on my VW Tiguan with matrix lights is no crop function for the road signs. So you are blinded by the reflection from these signs. But otherwise i love it!
minute 3.31 the vehicle got blinded and thought he got in heaven xD anyway the best lights in the market from audi for sure
Not only him - all of incoming traffic are blinded except one car - police car at 22:26 - he switched off automatic lights for that time and switched back on immediately after..
Wow that’s really neat
Auto dimming lights. Just what India needs at the moment
😂
Best practically,Safety and usefully Light system
In a residential area, do you notice that all the public area lights are stronger and do not use the LEDS in complete upper rows? Because some villages can be relatively dark, but lighting the windows in any residential area with such a hurricane of light can be quite disturbing. And the residential buildings do not have a light that the system could know to turn off the particular LED there.
amazing lights
More interesting is how it looks in terms of other cars. Is there such a video somewhere?
nice video, confirmed that those matrix led are blinding trash.. all cars were flashed at very last pass.. pause video and see it frame by frame..
Yes, it IS horrible for anyone crossing them. I just crossed an A3 with these last night for the first time. I researched to find what an abomination it was and I finally found: "Audi Matrix LEDs". It flashed me when crossing and I got those light spots in my sight that reduced my sight. I had to blink for it to fade until I regained full sight. Absolutely horrible.
Amazing!
In theory. Great. In practice not so much.
These new headlight systems on all new cars are blinding just on low beams. I’m driving past 2020+ model BMW, Audi, etc and being blinding just by their dipped low beam.
I can’t imagine what the full beams would do even if they are partially dipping when detecting an oncoming vehicle….
I very much agree with you. Full LED lights are very great, but even on low beam it’s very awful. I keep mistaking people for turning their high beams on when in reality it’s just me being at just the right angle to get blinded. But I can’t complain so much since my motorbike uses a full LED headlight and I’ve been very grateful for how nicely it lights up the road. And my car being from 2013 uses very awful projector lighting system and I can’t see shit.
You don't seem to understand how these Matrix lights work.
Each headlight contains over 1 million reflective mirrors that can infinitely shift the primary beam of light to any shape or pattern like digital pixels on a television screen. Using the front mounted camera system, the car can detect the positioning of oncoming vehicles. It then locks onto the vehicle and tracks it's motion, then completely shuts down the sections of light that are aiming directly at that vehicle. It basically creates a tunnel of darkness, but still projects light around the perimeter of the vehicle. This way you get maximum brightness and visibility, but do not blind other drivers because the lights aimed at them are completely deactivated.
@@EOtekk I fully understand how they work. If you read my comment I’m saying that regardless of if these block out light, they’re still projecting the low beam in the area. Which is equally as blinding…
@@EOtekk You do not understand, that simply a ridiculously bright headlight, as a small, but very bright light source can blind You, no matter if it focused on You (which makes it even worse) or just making your eye trying to adapt to this bright source and blinding all the rest. I can confirm I don't see much, when I'm passing or driving in front of a modern car with LED headlights.
If u were blinded, how do u know it was a merc, bmw or Audi?
Amazing tech
Amazing tech❤️
Very good
Impressive!
Great stuff, hoping to see the same video with bmw's laser lights
It works almost exactly the same duh
@@nino_kO1 🤣🤣🤣 ALMOST
Nice
Awesome technology.
I always get blinded by those intelligent lights before a computer sees me and switches them off
2:15 - The first animal is the one that uses fog lights when there is no fog and also not replacing the headlight bulb! I saw the one at 1:46 as well. Very good system. This should be on every car and this could lead to a great decrease in accidents.
Not fast enough. The lights are blinding drivers when they come to close to the car and the light doesn't has time to react fast enough. You can clearly see the car is lighting up right in the face of oncoming drivers when they get to close
especially in winter I am often on the road when it is dark, Matrix LED systems no matter what brand blind me actually never. Worse are halogen headlights that are not adapted to the load or the lamps were installed incorrectly.
As opposed to what? Having the full beams on requires a human to disable them when they see a car which. When I see Matrix LED systems. They’re usually much easier on the eye as a driver than traditional halogen.
All very good, two of my work colleagues have Audi’s with these headlights and you get blinded when driving head on.
Thank you! People who commend these abominations should try to cross them in the real world. They flash you and I got those blinding light spots in my sight for a few seconds after. Even in the advertising video you can see it does not work correctly and fails far too often.
Great design
Stunned
oglądając w trybie zwolnionym do 0.25 widać jak pojazdy jadące z naprzeciwka wjeżdżają w strumień światła na ułamek sekundy (tuż przed wyminięciem) zanim elektronika wyłączyła tą sekcje oświetlenia tak jest np w 2:54, 3:31, 3:51, 4:03 i 4:08 , kiedy wyraźnie rozświetlone zostaje wnętrze ich kabin. Ponadto gdy prezentowany pojazd jedzie po pofalowanej jezdni, w 2:53, strumień świateł drogowych oświetla pojazd na pasie przeciwległym w momencie gdy przód prezentowanego samochodu się unosi
I'm actually a Mercedes Benz fan, but Audi has the best infotainment, quattro (4-wheel) and LED Beams
Nice video!
How many individual LEDs is having A6 C8 matrix (not hd matrix) in one lamp? I know Mercedes have about 80 into a single lamp so 160 minimum per car. Any idea about A6?
Wow.. that is some amazing light..clearly very powerful and must be nightmare to oncoming vehicles
The whole point of the video is that the light avoids the incoming cars
It doesn't work 100%
@@LPRDExcept it doesn't. Try crossing these vehicles in the real world. 👍🏻
Amazing
So exciting technology
That must be in Poland south of Warsaw? Also those lights are blinding drivers bad sometimes
02:05 03:31 03:51 15:16 you can see how this technology fails, you can see the face of the other driver in full blast of this LED projector. also, from my experience on the road with this lights, they are very annoying when the car on the other part of the road has this. because ok, it's cutting my car to some extend (as you can see in this video at 02:05 3:31 03:51 15:16 doesn't do the best job) but the fact that i have a light stream in front of me that is overlapping with the light returned to me from my headlights, makes me see worse what i have ahead. So this kind of lightning is DANGEROUS
100% agree
Yes and its really not necessary to have sooo much light and shine past other cars
Wow😮Super 😍😎🤓👍🏆🏆🏆🏆❤️
I drove an audi with matrix leds and was awesome
wow wow wow , it's amazing
I love audi great light system💪💪👍👍
what if the oncoming traffic has the headlight off. Will the camera be able to detect?
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Man I wish I could add this to my Gti
I drive a 2021 Skoda Octavia with the Matrix light and I received just one beacon call in almost 2 years, it's very usefull !
System działa rewelacyjne ale w 2:00 pod koniec wymijania przez mili sekundy kierowca z przeciwka dostaje niezłego flasha.😁
loove the intensity.even the deer stop for the light.
I like watching these videos, knowing ill never be able to afford it
Segment turning on/off seems to be instant, Is it due to film being sped up? Or do those lights flicker that much? My 2020 superb 3 fl seems to have much more progressive segment dimming, it's definitely less fatiguing my eyes. If I see cars with dull lights I manually switch to low beams to avoid glaring them. Segments turn off in advance before car in front reaches them. Here I can see sometimes segments turning off little to late. Not very impressed, my current superb lights with less segments seem more fluent and accurate.
Ee gapyoo 👍👍👍👍💋
Amazing technic......
thanks for this video but how does the driver on the other side see? I wonder about this.
I own the B9 S4 2019 with Matrix Led, still all oncoming drivers blink me in return, even though I have calibrated them on Audi Service Centre. Great tech, but they don't react fast enough, not to blind oncoming traffic.
perfect headlight system! i love German car ❤❤❤
These are standard fit on many Vauxhalls these days and Land rovers.
Have the same lights on my opel its so clear to drive
W O W ! ! !
How the lights deal with trucks going over the hills?
The Mazda CX5 had this tech back in 2016/2017 as a tech option pkg.
Can you add a third person POV like an oncoming car to see what it looks like ?
this video just looking like ASMR
Nice one. However also has the same feature on my Mazda CX-9
The brightness of LED could meanwhile disturb yourself on with the reflection of the traffic signs. Experience I make, but overall it is great.
Would like to see in case of bad weather condition. Myst, snowing or raining one.
So it works only in ideal summer conditions?
Is it fast enough? I see 4:08 some segments in high beam mode.
Hustý!
this technology is perfect, its gets the driver an opportunity to spot things, that would not be illuminated otherwise... altough you can clearly see, that the cars in opposite directien, when they are right in front of the audi, last few meters, the drivers are dazzled. it can be seen very clearly on the van on @4:08 and all all the other cars aswell..... the whole cabin is illuminated by audi leds......so the driver is momentarily flashed by the lights....good way to loose any sort of "night vision"....... same happens on hills with sharp crest, or tight corners,....the oncoming driver is dazzled..... you as a human driver already sees there is a car coming from the corner so you disable high beams in advance, the automatic control dazzles for a short while and then disables..... even though i have adaptive headlights, thisis the reason i use manual mode.... also whats up with high beams being used "in the city/village" you can clearly see street ligts, and beginning of village/city road sign.....and the high beams are still on ? most adaptive headlights respect the law (in most eu), which this drive is in... with combination of map data, strett lights and road sign detection, and speed.
And audi's quattro system is great
Look at Polestar 2 with the Pixel LED lights. They work mutch smoother ;)