Let’s be honest about it: the interior lights currently installed in our cars are pretty much useless, simply because finding something dropped on the floor at night is still impossible without ...

Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to drive with interior lights on anywhere in the United States. Nevertheless, it is recommended that you keep your dome lights off when driving at night ...

In-car ambient lighting is a relatively new idea in the auto industry. Although customers have for decades tried to bring their own unique touch on how the interior of their cars looks like at night, ...

OSIRE® E3731i intelligent RGB LED enables creation of dynamic color and motion effects across hundreds of LEDs The intelligent RGBi uses a new and license-free Open System Protocol for communication ...

This circuit is much more modest, but certainly still worth the effort. It provides a high quality interior light delay. This is a feature that is included as standard with most modern cars, although ...

Not so long ago, car interior lighting consisted of central and side headliner lights, complemented by low-level ambient lighting located mainly in the cockpit area. Now we are seeing LEDs in a ...

Automotive interior lighting does not suffer from the lifetime issues that can justify light emitting diodes (LEDs) in other applications. Power consumption usually is not an issue either, although ...

Virtually everyone has a childhood memory of being scolded for turning on a light inside the family car while it was in motion. Some parents, perhaps in attempting to control their fidgety kids, may ...

An Apple Car patent granted today describes smart in-car lighting, able to intelligently determine what the occupants are likely to want or need at any given moment. One example cited in the patent ...

When you were a kid, your parents may have told you to turn off the lights inside the car while they were driving because it's illegal. While there may be good reasons to keep the interior lights off ...