Polestar 2 LED matrix headlights 

J0nsku YE, Me and Bjørn lives in Norway so we can relate

Any idea where a Polestar 2 can be bought for a reasonable price in Finland? I currently live in Oulu and would like to buy one. Can't find one here and would have to pay 30% in tax to bring one from Norway :(

You are driving in Nittedal right?

I live in nittedal

Lightest isnt new

@@Fekillix To be fair, those does not look like matrix LED. Matrix LED requires a projector like housing since it contains all the LEDs in an array. Those on the tesla are seperated and there is probably 1 LED per reflector similar to the headlamps Volvo are using today. Also, Matrix LED are not allowed in North America so might be the reason they're not developing.

​@@Fekillix This is true when I look it up! Why would you use left side image as before?! Don't do that... Anyway, I think (last time I read it) more than 50% of all Tesla sales were in the US alone and Matrix Headlight has not been a huge selling point and more just of a gimmick until recently so they've saved quite a few bucks per car only having one type of headlamp but hopefully Tesla might be the stepping stone in changing the regulations in the US.

@@KaneTheMessiah There are different ways to do it, it really depends on the resolution of the areas you like want to grey out. Many newer systems uses a projector with a multiple leds inside it. The matrix system in the regular Volvo’s now uses different reflectors, some turning reflectors and then like a final stage when it’s clear.

​@@jobathano1660 The projectors with multiple LEDs are the ones called MATRIX LED and Volvo does not have any MATRIX LED modules today. The Volvos of today are using system called "Active High Beam" which uses a mechanical system by bending the modules and the switches to low beam and when it's clear it turns on the High Beam again. LED Matrix does not need to utilize any mechanical system and works by controlling individual or group of addressable and controllable LEDs turning them off not to glare coming traffic. However, you could say that Volvos first car with MATRIX LED is the Polestar 2 that used 84 LEDs in one module so a total of 168 LEDs with both LHS and RHS and I'm pretty sure this technology will trickle down to upcoming Volvos! MATRIX LEDs has been used in the automotive business for almost a decade now and the first being the Audi A8 in 2013 which had 25 LEDs in each headlamp although it had 25 LEDs they were grouped up by 5 LEDs per reflector. Today it is becoming more commercially viable for other brands that aren't in the premium segment. The future of headlamps will be consisting of laser light together with DLP modules, also called Pixel Lighting. However, only a handful of cars are using DLP and are all in the premium segment such as Audi E-TRON, Q8 and the new Mercedes S-class amongst a few others. DLP is actually quite an old technology and was invented in the 80s if I remember correctly but has recently begun to being used in the automotive business and today only Texas Instruments are creating chipsets with DLP techonology for the automotive business. The DLP can utilize from all from 800.000 up to 2 million micro mirrors on a small chip which are all individually controllable and will be rotating on and tiny tiny axis to reflect the light outwards or in to a blocker which gives a much higher resulotion while only being lit up by 1 to 2 LEDS.

Hard in summer though...

Maybe if he had access to a big indoor arena or something like that. Then he could at least test high / low beam while being stationary. But around Oslo it should still be dark enough from around 1-2 am.

Correct observation.

Above certain speed, it works only like auto high beam...

I assume this Polestar is using the same lighting system as a Volvo. My Volvo V90 has to completely stop for the high beams to be turned off. If you just crawl along in darkness the high beams turn on. The cornering light feature is optional on Volvos. It looks like they are making it standard on the Polestars. This is good, as a Volvo with the full suite of features is great to drive at night. I use the automated lighting 100% of the time.

@@steveunderwood3683 not the same I think, V90 does not have matrix lights. Edit: I was wrong ;)

@@_rlb The cornering and adaptive shadow features of a V90's LED headlights work by switching which LEDs are active. The base models don't have that, but the higher models do.

You can get Matrix LED lights in the 1st edition Plus version, too. Battery test from Germany has a Plus with the Matrix LEDs

Bjorn did that, with the led bar and it is so much better he said.

Plenty of cars have conventional LED lights, the technology difference here is matrix.

Not allowed in North America (regulations) and since it's their biggest market they don't see a reason developing it!

I noticed that too.

No

Cameras have very shallow bit depths, with your eyes there won't be such contrast differences.