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In 2003, Automotive Lighting became fully owned by Magneti Marelli. Since 2019, after the merger of Magneti Marelli and Calsonic Kansei the one-company's name is Marelli. Automotive Lighting was the first company to introduce rear LED lights in 2003 for the Peugeot 307 CC, [1] and the first full-LED headlamp in mass production for the Audi R8 ...
Car and lighting manufacturers in Germany experimented with dual high-mount supplemental stop lights in the early 1980s, [96] but this effort, too, failed to gain wide popular or regulatory support. Effective with the 1986 model year , the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Canada mandated that all new ...
[48] The Truth About Cars similarly named the Citation as one of the major "deadly sins" that led to GM's downfall; "Typical for GM, the Citation looked best on paper, or to the automotive writers who were suckered when they drive the most unproduction-like 'ringers' ever hand-assembled and wrote breathless reports on the Citation's spectacular ...
The specifications supplied by the manufacturer, on approval by NHTSA, are entered in Federal docket NHTSA-1998-3397. [7] From then on, any light source made and certified by any manufacturer as conforming to the specifications is legal for use in headlamps certified as conforming to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108. Light sources for ...
In the 'Industries' segment Hella transfers existing technologies from the automotive sector to new target groups. As a first pilot project, some cities in China have been provided with these new street lights. Another project is the LED-airport beacons, which can be found at the airports of Luxembourg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, and Stavanger ...
Audi showed the Audi Nuvolari concept car with LED headlights in 2003. [118] [119] [120] Automotive headlamp applications using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been undergoing development since 2004. [121] [122] In 2004, Audi released the first car with LED daytime running lights and directionals, the 2004 Audi A8 W12. [123] [124]
FMVSS 108 is codified in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 571, Section 108. [1] The most recent version was published by NHTSA for comment in December 2007, [2] and since then, it has been amended in April 2011, [3] August 2011, [4] January 2012, [5] December 2012, [6] December 2015, [7] February 2016, [8] and February 2022.
In the past, manufacturers often used hidden headlamps to circumvent headlight height regulations in the United States. For instance, in 1983, Toyota exported their retractable headlight version of the AE86 (known domestically as the Sprinter Trueno ) instead of the Corolla Levin , as the former had a higher headlamp height, enough to satisfy ...