From kerosene lamps to cameras and sensors: how car headlights have evolved

The modern headlight "sees" pedestrians, markings, and can adjust the lighting, but it wasn't always like that. It all started with a kerosene lamp that only marked vehicles on the road. And the first attempts to standardize automotive lighting did not appear until the 1920s, when Bosch offered its revolutionary solution.

LIGA.net has already written about how airbags in transport have changed. Today, we're going to tell you how the design of automotive lighting has evolved, why retractable headlights have disappeared, and how equipment is becoming smarter.

The first lamps for cars

The first cars had no lights. That's why driving in the days of Karl Benz, , the inventor of the world's first car with an internal combustion engine, was risky both day and night. But with the beginning of the era of mass distribution of cars, the problem of road lighting began to be solved in various ways.