Mercedes-Benz Dealerships will be offerring models equipped with an amazing new headlight technology in spring 2009.

The bi-xenon headlamp system automatically adapts headlamp range to the distance of vehicles ahead or to oncoming vehicles. This new Mercedes technology is based on a camera, positioned on the inside of the front windscreen, which monitors the traffic situation in front of the car. Every 40 milliseconds the headlamps receive new data.

Conventional systems simply switch between low and high beam. The new Mercedes technology adjusts light yield according to impending traffic situations. It is no longer necessary to operate the high low beam switch.