Adaptive headlights on the Mazda3 GT-E
By Philippe Crowe
The redesigned Mazda3 sports a lot of features usually found on bigger cars. One of the aspects that set the 2010 Mazda3 apart from others in the compact car class is the attention Mazda’s engineers paid to the car’s lighting system. On all Mazda3 GT models, bi-xenon, High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps have now become standard equipment.
The headlamps, which use a single xenon lamp in each front light assembly, produce both the high beam and the low beam. This comes courtesy of an electric arc which causes the gas to discharge its light particles, which then glow to generate a bright light that closely resembles the white color of daylight.
With the optional GT-E package on the 2010 Mazda3, the headlamps gain automatic levelling as well as an Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS) which, according to Mazda, is a Canadian first in this segment of the market. Typically seen on high end luxury vehicles the system provides optimal illumination as it automatically swivels the low beams left or right in accordance with steering angle and vehicle speed, casting light in the direction the driver wishes to proceed and greatly improving visibility when cornering at night.
The system swivels the headlights up to 15 degrees either to the right or left, illuminating the area around a point that it determines the car will reach three seconds later.

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