Advances in lighting technology are arriving thick and fast, and among 2016’s most intriguing unveilings was Daimler’s ‘Digital Light’ concept. The future-looking technology uses tiny micromirrors in its headlights, and with over 1 million in each, it can sculpt the light with high-definition precision.
This marks one of the first uses of micromirror technology in an automotive application. A digital light processing (DLP) module from Texas Instruments incorporating micromirrors is a passive system with a light source. Each mirror can very quickly pitch between zero and ten degrees. Light can therefore be
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