BMW Motorcycle Adaptive Headlight

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Video - BMW Motorcycle Adaptive Headlight

A centrally-mounted movable xenon projection light shines up onto a diagonally-mounted mirror, illuminating the road ahead. As the nose of the bike pitches up and down with acceleration or braking, the projector light rotates in its housing to keep the beam level. This can compensate for loads too, so if your pillion passenger is exceptionally fat or you carry bricks in the panniers, the headlight will illuminate the road, not the sky. Basically the rotating light always keeps the beam level.
Things get more interesting if you check the "Adaptive Headlight" box (no word on cost). That adds a stepper motor which turns the mirror on an axis to compensate for lean angle. That also works in conjunction with the pitch compensation to ensure the bike's dynamic movement on the road doesn't affect the throw of the headlight.

[nomo]

Interesting and should be cheap to fix .

[DanST4]

Yea, and it adds a 13th computer to the bike. You're riding a BMW and it dies... you pull over and call for a tow truck.

No user-serviceable parts inside.

[Area 51]

Brilliant. Headlight dive is a glaring weakness of cycles if you ever ride at night. Not worth it for sport bikes or most other bikes but if you ride at night this is magic. Bravo, Bavaria.