intelligent light assist and dynamic light assist

All these terms are making my head hurt

Is intelligent light assist just a new name for smart light assist?

The term intelligent light assist is in the brochure but not in owners manual

The "Intelligent Light Assist" is basically an auto high-beam system.  It does its best to determine when you can safely use high-beams or not.  Anecdotal evidence here suggests that it works better on cars with actual cameras at the front (e.g. many VRS models, for the lane keeping function) than those (such as my Elegance) which use a simpler light sensor.

 

The "Dynamic Light Assist" is only available with the Xenon/HID lamps and will change the beam pattern depending upon road speed and steering angle - e.g. swivelling the lights to the left as you make a left turn.

 

The "Dynamic Light Assist" is only available with the Xenon/HID lamps and will change the beam pattern depending upon road speed and steering angle - e.g. swivelling the lights to the left as you make a left turn.

 

Thought this was "AFS" - Adaptive Frontlight System ? I have this on the Superb.

Edited 27 September, 20169 yr by Coops

AFAIK (another acronym to bend your brain ) 'Dynamic Light Assist' is a system where sensors detect and instruct shutters/movable reflectors within the headlight unit to alter the beam pattern. This is dependent on the road (corners/bumps) and/or oncoming vehicles or tail lights ahead.

 

I think it's mainly available on LED headlights though.

 

I could be making all this up, think I read about it. 

Ooops - Coops and Skodaphile are correct.  The dynamic light assist does indeed shutter the beam to put light where it won't blind.  Mea culpa.

 

Dynamic Light assist: 

 

Intelligent Light assist: 

Edited 27 September, 20169 yr by iriches

There certainly are many terms and acronyms around lighting at the moment...

 

Light assist and intelligent light assist can be used in conjuction with all lighting technologies (halogen, xenon, LED):

- Light assist adds a sensor to automatically turn the dipped headlights on/off based on ambient lighting conditions

- Intelligent light assist or high beam assist uses a front facing camera to automatically dip the high/main beams when it detects other vehicles.

 

Where xenon or LED lighting is installed, ECE regs require (in most cases) one axis of movement, this is in the vertical axis and is to self-level avoiding excess dazzle.

 

AFS (advanced front lighting system) adds a second axis of movement, this is in horizontal to allow for 'bending' xenons. Basically the headlights will swing left/right as you corner.

 

AFSII, adds beam position adjustment to allow for lighting modes such as motorway, rain and city modes. For example, at high speed the car would increase the headlight range by tilting the xenon projector upwards.

 

Dynamic or smart light assist adds beam pattern adjustment. It will either use a roller shutter (with xenons) or LED matrix lights in conjunction with a more advanced front facing camera to alter the beam shape. This allows the car to effectively keep high/main beams on but not cause dazzle to other road uses.

 

This is just my understanding of the various terms used by Skoda/VW at the moment so I may be wrong or have missed something

Thanks for replies. I've got the bi-xenon but now someone earlier mentioned. Bi-xenon/hid I'm wondering is the hid an extra thing in addition to the bi-xenon

Thanks for replies. I've got the bi-xenon but now someone earlier mentioned. Bi-xenon/hid I'm wondering is the hid an extra thing in addition to the bi-xenon

 

HID and xenons normally refer to the same thing on cars.

 

Instead of a filament bulb filled with halogen gas, a high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp filled with xenon gas is used as the light source.

 

You get xenons and bi-xenons, the difference being that xenons are used for dipped beams where as bi-xenons are used for both dipped and high/main beams.

Edited 27 September, 20169 yr by langers2k

Langers2 - thanks for the very comprehensive answer

I've got the bi-xenons and the lane assist but cannot find the dynamic light assist in the light menu

The first option is 'light assist' whereas the manual says the first option should be dynamic light assist

If the dynamic light assist was some other option - I did not see it in the car configuator on the Skoda website. I chose the SE l - and opted for the bi-xenons with AFS and lane assist which I assume has the camera that the dynamic light assist would utilise.

Thanks again for replies

Edited 27 September, 20169 yr by rit

I don't think dynamic light assist is available at all on the Octavia. AFS is, as you are aware, and light assist, which is auto on/off, the only other option available is HBA - High Beam Assist. This is a £310 option from the factory, but can be enabled retrospectively with VCDS provided you have lane assist, which is standard on most newer vRS's. The manual may have generic info that relates to other models such as the Superb, although I don't know if it's available on those even.

Skodafile

The manual has something labeled as 'intelligent light assistant'. The diagrams show the left beam dipping because of an oncoming car but the right one remaining full beam.

The text that accompanies the diagrams confuses matters somewhat because it only mentions beams - in the plural - being dipped or switched to high beam again after car has passed

So the diagram seems to show dynamic light assistant but the accompanying text describes the intelligent light assistant which I assume is the combination of the light assistant (ie turn on when dark) and high beam assistant

Edited 28 September, 20169 yr by rit

On page 11 of the Octavia brochure it shows the 'Intelligent light assistant' option.
 
This will allow the car to turn the dipped beams on based on ambient lighting and high beams should automatically dip for on coming traffic. The images are correct but the third image has both headlights on dipped beam. Despite its appearance, it does not show the left beam on dipped and right beam on high/main. It's just the ECE beam pattern as shown on this wikipedia page.
 
To confuse matters, it's described as 'High-beam assistant (Light Assist)' on page 66 of the Octavia manual. It appears even Skoda get there terms mixed up!
 
The 'Smart light assistant' is only currently an option on the Superb, it's briefly described on page 16 of the Superb brochure. Again, it changes name to 'Dynamic light assist' on page 68 of the Superb manual...

 

In the current form, the Octavia doesn't have headlights available capable of changing the beam pattern required for smart\dynamic light assist. The highest option is high beam assist regardless of the name used.

Does the Octavia fitted with Bi-Xenons have the ability to shorten/widen the beam pattern at a slower speed and the faster you go the longer and narrower the beam alters

Does the Octavia fitted with Bi-Xenons have the ability to shorten/widen the beam pattern at a slower speed and the faster you go the longer and narrower the beam alters

 

Yes as that's part of the AFSII system, it moves the entire xenon projector to give more/less range or spread the light out. Personally, I consider it changing the beam positions rather than the beam pattern as each projector is still making the same beam pattern it's just aimed somewhere else

 

Small extract from the manual:

 

The Xenon headlights (hereinafter referred to as just system) use the driving data to automatically ensure the for the best possible light cone in front of the vehicle.

 

The system will automatically operate in the following modes: urban, extra-urban, motorway, rain, fog, adjusting the lighting direction of the headlights for road illumination around bends.

 

The system works as long as the light switch is in position auto.