An in-vehicle lighting device for alerting a driver driving a vehicle to an obstacle present in a vicinity of the vehicle, which obstructs driving of the vehicle. The in-vehicle lighting device includes: a light emitter that is installed in an interior side of a pillar in a front part of the vehicle and that emits light of different chromatic colors; a controller connected to the light emitter; and a detector that is connected to the controller and detects the obstacle present in the vicinity of the vehicle. When the detector detects the obstacle present in the vicinity of the vehicle, the controller causes the light emitter to emit light having a color according to a characteristic of the obstacle detected.

A vehicle head-up display device includes a display control module that receives signals from a plurality of sources and determines one or more warnings based on the signals. The warnings may include at least one of a lane departure warning, a blind spot warning, a front/following/backup distance indicator, a head-on threat warning, and a lateral threat warning. A display module has a plurality of light sources that selectively project a plurality of light patterns onto a plurality of locations on a windshield of a vehicle such that the plurality of light patterns are superimposed on objects outside of the vehicle.

A computer is programmed to, upon determining that a vehicle entered an autonomous-steering mode, deactivate a plurality of lights on a steering-wheel rim; and upon initiating a transition of the vehicle from the autonomous-steering mode to a manual-steering mode, illuminate at least one of the lights that is at a steering-wheel angle corresponding to a current steering angle of the vehicle.

A steering wheel (102) having a hub portion (118), a rim (112) and at least one spoke (114) connected to the hub portion (118) and to the rim (112), the rim (112) having a groove and a surface of the steering wheel (102); a number of actuatable light sources located in or under the groove; light diffuser or lens (140) positioned in the groove above the light sources.

A display article includes a film formed from a stretchable plastic and including a first plurality of micro-light emitting diodes and a second plurality of micro-light emitting diodes disposed adjacent to the first plurality and embedded in the plastic. The article includes a substrate having a first portion and a second portion, and a tear seam disposed between the first and second portions. The film is attached to the substrate such that the tear seam is located between the first and second pluralities. A component includes the display article and an airbag disposed adjacent the substrate and configured for transitioning between a stowed position in which the airbag does not extend through the substrate, and a deployed position in which the airbag extends through the substrate and the film. The first and second portions are separated at the tear seam when the airbag is disposed in the deployed position.

A vehicle instrument panel having a three-dimensional illumination effect includes a transparent ring having a three-dimensional circular shape, at least one primary scale formed in a front surface of the transparent ring, the at least one primary scale being spaced apart from an adjacent primary scale by a predetermined distance, a reflecting plate for changing a direction of travel of LED light along the transparent ring, generated below the transparent ring, in clockwise and counterclockwise directions, and a prism unit including at least one prism for reflecting a portion of the LED light traveling along the transparent ring toward the at least one primary scale at a predetermined angle.

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to providing visual cues on a steering apparatus of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a difference between a current angle of a steering apparatus of a vehicle and a recommended angle of the steering apparatus. The method further includes illuminating a region of a grip of the steering apparatus based upon the difference and a position of a hand of an operator of the vehicle on the grip. The method additionally includes unilluminating the region as the steering apparatus is rotated from the current angle to the recommended angle.

A display system for at least one wheel of at least one vehicle comprising: At least one LED display device for displaying information on a wheel of a vehicle; A computer in association with the at least one LED display device, the computer comprising GPS; A main server;
Wherein the LED display device is linked to the computer and the computer is in wireless communication with the main server via a wireless network; in use, the server has stored in memory a plurality of information packets for display by the LED display device, each information packet has an associated location and/or time for being displayed, the main server wirelessly sends at least one information packet and associated time and/or location to the associated computer of the at least one vehicle, when the at least one vehicle is in the desired location and/or time the computer instructs the at least one LED display device to display the associated information.

The invention relates to a vehicle having a detection device for detecting a property of a vehicle occupant and an operator control and display device which is coupled to the detection device, has a display region and is configured to display information in the display region and by means of which a symbol can be displayed in the display region as a function of the sensed property. It is provided here that the property which is detected by means of the detection device is a position of the vehicle occupant, and the operator control and display device is configured to display the symbol in a partial region of the display region which is determined as a function of the detected position, and to assign the symbol to the vehicle occupant in such a way that when there is a change in position of the vehicle occupant that the symbol follows the vehicle occupant. The invention also relates to a method for operating such a vehicle. The invention makes particularly flexible use of the vehicle possible.

The present invention relates to a vehicle (1), particularly a motor vehicle, with at least one illuminating device having a longitudinally shaped illuminating fixture for creating a light strip along a defined line of the illuminating fixture, wherein a first section (2, 2) of the illuminating fixture is arranged on the interior (3) of the vehicle (1) and a second section (4, 4) of the illuminating fixture is arranged on the exterior (5) of the vehicle, the illuminating device is set up so as to create a similar light strip along a line of the first (2, 2) and of the second section (4, 4)of the illuminating fixture, and the light of the light strip created by the first section (2, 2) of the illuminating fixture is radiated such that it is visible for an occupant located at a definable position on the interior of the vehicle (1), and the light of the light strip created by the second section (4, 4) of the illuminating fixture is radiated such that it is visible from a definable position relative to and outside of the vehicle (1).