Lexus is taking the illumination of the road ahead
to new levels with a state-of-the-art technology that will be introduced later
this year in the facelifted RX crossover. Bound to make driving at night
and in poor weather safer, the system is called BladeScan and improves the
photometric control of the area in front of the car from 1.7 to 0.7 degrees.
What this means is that drivers will be able to see areas otherwise difficult
to check out with a conventional high-beam system, like road margins,
pedestrians and possible obstacles.
Compared to the outgoing RX, which features
automatic or adaptive high-beam LED lighting that’s part of the Lexus Safety
System+ package, pedestrian recognition at night is said to have been improved
by 24 meters – now covering 56 meters with the implementation
of the new system.
Furthermore, the technology doesn’t dazzle other
drivers and keeps the number of LEDs to a minimum: 10 on each side of the
vehicle, in this case. The LEDs are found in a compact module in the front
corner of each headlight, casting light diagonally across the two blade-shaped
mirrors that rotate at high speed. The LEDs automatically switch on and off and
the layout retains its triple-eye light arrangement and integrated daytime
running lights.
Toyota’s luxury car brand has demonstrated this new
adaptive headlight system. Lexus got in touch with us,
announcing that the 2020 RX won’t get the BladeScan technology in the United
States and Canada.