Press Release ECE/TRANS/00/2
Geneva, 4 April 2000
Presentation of new
headlamps for vehicles
A new front-lighting system for vehicles
will be presented today in Geneva. Known as Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS), the new
lighting technology improves significantly visibility for drivers at night while reducing
glare to drivers going in the opposite direction, including under bad weather conditions.
Vehicles equipped with the new AFS
technology will be exhibited in the park surrounding the Palais des Nations on 4 April
2000 at 9.00 p.m.
Provided with senso-motric control, the
new AFS headlamps are able to adapt their light to different situations such as adverse
weather and wet roads, bending roads, country roads, motorways or town streets, while
permitting a correct visibility of overhead road signs.
The presentation is held on the occasion
of the 44th session of the UN/ECE Working Party on Lighting and
Light-Signalling (GRE), a subsidiary body to the UN/ECE World Forum for Harmonization of
Vehicle Regulations (WP.29).
The Group will assess the advantages of
the AFS technology and possibly adopt it as a new requirement for future vehicles.
More information about the activities of
GRE and WP.29 is available via the Internet, at the following address:
http://www.unece.org/trans/main/welcwp29.htm
For further
information, please contact:
Mr. J. Capel Ferrer, Director, or
Mr. A. Erario, Secretary to GRE
Transport Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: (+41 22) 917 24 01
Fax: (+41 22) 907 00 39
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
In order to provide you with a better
service, we would appreciate it if you would send
a copy of your article to: Information Unit, United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UN/ECE), Palais des Nations, Room 356, CH - 1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland,
Tel: (+41 22) 917 44 44, Fax: (+41 22) 917
05 05,
E-mail: [email protected],
Website: http://www.unece.org
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