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Según parece el primer proyector led se montó en Lexus, El del R8 es el primer faro "completamente" LED.
Aparecido nada menos que en New York Times:
..They have also begun to show up at the front end of cars as daytime running lights and turn signals.
Lexus offered the first L.E.D. headlight on the LS 600h L. Now Audi is able to claim the first all-L.E.D. lighting package for the front of a car: high and low beams of the R8 V-12 TDI Concept's headlights as well as running lights and turn signals.
L.E.D.'s appeal to engineers because in most cases they will outlast the cars in which they are mounted. And they use less energy — a big attraction because the electrical systems of today's cars are already stretched to support entertainment systems, power steering and electronic controls.
But designers like L.E.D.'s for other reasons: they offer a whole new world of expressive possibilities.
"They look very high-tech and precise and accurate," said Stefan Sielaff, Audi's head of design. "This is part of our Audi design philosophy."
Precision and technology are important components of Audi's design theme, and its motto, "vorsprung durch technik," or "progress through technology." The Audi motto takes on visual expression in L.E.D.'s. The diode lamps, Mr. Sielaff said, also take up less space and give designers more flexibility in placing them.
The R8 lights are made by Automobile Lighting, a division of Magneti Marelli, a leading auto parts supplier based in Italy.
The Audi A5 coupe and the newest A4 have different arrangements of L.E.D.'s, more tubular in shape.
"Each car needs a personality with lights," Mr. Sielaff said. "I have an expert team doing nothing but light design. You do not just draw a pretty curve and see if it can be built. It takes working with engineers who know light itself, and the manufacturer of the lights and so on."
Este jefazo de diseño de Audi viene a decir que la tira curva led será seña de identidad Audi por unos cuantos años.
Esta tecnología acabará jubilando al xenon.
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