Audi S5 Avant – Second-generation digital OLED rear lights

New standards in digital light
With the new A5, Audi is accentuating its leading role in lighting design and technology. The headlights and rear lights have a three-dimensional design and offer optional digital light signatures, bringing the physical and digital worlds together. At the front, the Audi A5 family optionally offers digital daytime running lights with LED technology and second-generation digital OLED rear lights at the rear.

With around 60 segments per digital OLED panel, the A5 is increasingly acting as a display in the vehicle's rear. This enables car-to-x communication and increases road safety. A domain computer controls the communication light and the active digital light signature. In the case of the second-generation digital OLED rear lights, six OLED panels generate a new image several times per second through 364 segments using a specially developed algorithm. At
the rear, all digital OLED segments are used for the active digital light signature. The luminous intensity within the combination rear light does not vary.
With the second-generation digital OLED combination rear light, the Audi A5 family is taking lighting design, functionality, and, therefore, road safety in its class to a new level. The new digital OLED technology characterizes the appearance while also increasing the range of functions. The technology sets new standards in terms of personalization: With a total of eight digital light signatures included in the Matrix LED headlights combined with the digital OLED taillights, customers can personalize the appearance of their A5/S5 Sedan* or A5/S5 Avant* like never before. The selection is possible via the MMI touch display (Multi Media Interface) and the signatures can also be displayed via the myAudi app. The digital OLED tail lights of the new A5 can communicate with the immediate surroundings (Car-to-X). Audi has also taken the safety functions to a new level. The proximity detection known from the first generation of digital OLED rear lights has been extended in the A5 - the second generation
of digital OLEDs - to include the communication light. For example, it warns other road users in advance of accidents and breakdowns. In addition to the regular taillight graphics, the communication light in the digital OLED rear light displays a specific static tail light signature with integrated warning symbols in critical driving or traffic situations. In the Audi A5, the brake lights are located behind the individual digital OLED panels - a unique arrangement for an Audi model. This creates a striking threedimensional shape with the LED tail light and the typically segmented digital light signature, which extends across the vehicle's full width, including the LED light strip.

07/2024