Have a safe drive: How Ford Territory’s icon-inspired headlights make night driving less dazzling

The Christmas season calls for a lot of night driving – going around malls to shop for gifts, attending family reunions, and dining out with friends. 

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Driving at night could be dangerous, that’s why it is important these days to get a vehicle that allows for maximum safety for everyone on the road. One of these vehicles equipped with innovative lighting features is a Ford Territory.

With its auto high beam feature, the Ford Territory ensures that drivers are able to see more of the road when they most need to without facing the fear of dazzling other road users. 

The system uses the vehicle’s forward-facing camera which sits in the windscreen near the rear vision mirror – the same camera used by the active safety system. The camera looks down the road, and when it detects the head or taillights of another vehicle, it will switch the high beam on or off. The system is designed to softly adjust the lighting intensity rather than shutting it down immediately, helping the driver’s eyes adjust faster to changing light qualities.

The all-LED headlights boast five low-beam LEDs with four additional LEDs deployed when high-beam is active, pushing the illumination from 105 meters to 117 meters. In addition to auto high beam, some Territory variants are equipped with static turning lamps which incorporate an additional light in the fog lamp, illuminating the side of the road to give you enhanced visibility through the turn.

Clever design

When Ford designed the Territory, it had one aim in mind, and that was to develop a vehicle that combined the commanding presence of Ford’s SUV range with the dynamic sportiness of its performance vehicles. Ford calls this design language, ‘Progressive Energy in Strength’.

The Territory’s front-end is framed coast-to-coast by the integrated grille and LED daytime running lights with main headlights separated and sitting lower in the front fascia and defined corners emphasize the vehicle’s width and the commanding presence evident on other Ford SUVs like the Everest and Explorer.