Audi Q9 Debuts World's First Curved Digital OLED Tail Lights with 512 Digital Segments
Audi is set to launch the Q9 SUV, featuring groundbreaking digital OLED lighting technology, the first of its kind with three-dimensionally curved panels. The design follows vehicle contours for improved identification from various angles.
Audi Q9 Debuts World's First Curved Digital OLED Tail Lights with 512 Digital Segments
Audi has announced a new digital OLED lighting technology for the upcoming Q9 SUV. The model will be the first production car in the world to feature three-dimensionally curved digital OLED panels, marking the next step in the automaker's lighting technology. The new system uses third-generation digital OLED technology with 512 individually controllable segments spread across six panels. The curved panels follow the contours of the vehicle's body and are designed to improve the visibility of the rear lights from wider viewing angles.
The new lighting technology also introduces additional light signatures, warning functions and communication features aimed at improving road safety.
Audi Q9 Curved Digital OLED Tail-Lights: What Is New?
The new Audi Q9 uses ultra-thin carrier glass measuring just 0.1 millimetres to enable the digital OLED panels to curve around the vehicle's rear. According to Audi, the glass allows a bend radius of up to 200 millimetres.
The lighting system comprises six digital OLED panels with a combined total of 512 segments. The largest panel has 99 segments, while the middle and inner panels feature 84 and 73 segments, respectively.
The curved design is intended to improve visibility from the sides by allowing the rear lights to follow the vehicle's body contours. This can help other road users identify the vehicle more easily from different angles.
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Audi Q9 Lighting Features & Safety Technology
The third-generation digital OLED technology will offer up to eight digital light signatures at the front and rear. These can be displayed in static, active and semi-active formats, allowing different lighting patterns and three-dimensional effects.
Audi has also developed communication lighting for the rear lamps. The system can display warning symbols to alert other road users to situations such as a breakdown or an accident.
The Q9 will also get digital Matrix LED headlights featuring micro-LED technology. The system uses a module containing 25,600 individual micro-LEDs within a unit approximately 13 millimetres wide. Each micro-LED measures around 40 micrometres.
The headlights can project high-resolution light patterns and adjust illumination according to driving conditions. Their functions include lane lighting, orientation lighting on rural roads and lane lighting with turn-signal projection on highways.
In narrow construction zones, the system can switch from lane lighting to orientation lighting to help the driver maintain the vehicle's position within the lane. Audi states that these lighting assistance functions support the driver and operate within the system's defined limits.
The Audi Q9 will also feature an advanced turn signal that projects a dynamic indicator pattern onto the road during turns or lane changes at night. The feature is designed to make the vehicle's intended direction clearer to pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.
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