PORSCHE PDLS Plus Taycan Dynamic Light System Instruction Manual

PORSCHE PDLS Plus Taycan Dynamic Light System

Information
The vehicle’s exterior lights can mist up depending on temperature and humidity. This misting will evaporate after a sufficient distance has been driven.

Adjusting Automatic Coming Home lights

✓ Automatic headlights switched on.
The following lights may be switched on for a certain period to allow you to get in and out of your vehicle with improved visibility in darkness:
When the last vehicle door is closed or after unlocking the vehicle, the following lights are switched on:

• Daytime running lights
• Dipped beams when approaching
• Front and rear side marker lights
• Number plate light

These are switched off again when operational readiness is switched on or the automatic headlights are switched off.
The duration of the off delay can be set on the central display.

 Setting Vehicle e Light and visibility e Exterior lights e Fade-out duration

Porsche Dynamic Light System Plus (PDLS Plus) with LED headlights

✓ Automatic headlights switched on.

Dynamic cornering lights
Above a speed of around 5 km/h (3 mph), the dipped beam or high-beam headlights are swiveled in the direction of the curve to illuminate the road more clearly, depending on the speed of the vehicle and the extent to which the steering wheel is turned.

Situational lighting distribution

Depending on the country, situational lighting control adapts the light distribution of the dipped and high-beam headlights to urban, country-road or motorway driving.

Adverse weather lights

When the fog lights are switched on, the dipped beam distribution changes at a speed of less than approx. 60 km/h (38 mph). The light beam becomes wider and reduces glare.

Dynamic high beam

• Fig. 109: Windscreen camera
  

Light sources of other road users can be detected by camera A in the vicinity of the interior mirror. Their detection continuously adjusts the light/dark limit of the driving light in several phases between dipped beam and full-high beam illumination. The stage is selected in such a way that the light/dark limit of the driving light reaches the next recognized vehicle. Dynamic high beam is switched on or off at speeds between 30 km/h (20 mph) and 60 km/h (37 mph)), depending on the navigation data. Full high-beam illumination is switched to dipped beam when the camera detects street lights.

Dynamic high beam can be activated or deactivated on the central display:

Setting Vehicle  Light and visibility  Exterior lights  Dynamic high beam

Information

To avoid impairing the detection performance:

• Do not cover the camera area on the interior mirror with objects (e.g. stickers).
• The camera must always be kept free of dirt, ice and snow.

Porsche Dynamic Light System Plus (PDLS Plus) with LED-Matrix headlights

✓ Automatic headlights switched on. PDLS Plus LED-Matrix headlights also include the PDLS Plus functions.

Dynamic high beam

• Fig. 110: Windscreen camera
  

Light sources and other road users can be detected by means of the camera (A). Depending on the position of other vehicles, the speed and other environmental and traffic conditions, the individual LED segments of the high beam headlights are activated or deactivated. The beam in the relevant area in front of the vehicle is low, the rest remains high. This ensures that the environment is lit without dazzling other road users. Dynamic high beam is switched on or off at speeds between 30 km/h (20 mph) and 60 km/h (37 mph)), depending on the navigation data. Full high beam illumination is switched to dipped beam when the camera detects street lights.
The dynamic high beams can be activated or deactivated in the central display:

Information

To avoid impairing the detection performance:

• Do not cover the camera area on the interior mirror with objects (e.g. stickers).
• The camera must always be kept free of dirt, ice and snow.

Passing lights

✓ No oncoming traffic.
✓ Vehicle ahead.

• Operate the direction indicator for overtaking while driving.
  The area next to the vehicle ahead is illuminated brightly. This makes it easier to see the road ahead.
  Passing lights are automatically deactivated again when the turn signal is deactivated or if oncoming traffic is detected.

Encounter lights

✓ No vehicle ahead.
✓ Oncoming traffic with detected headlights. The light distribution is briefly changed so that the lane being driven on is illuminated brightly. This draws the direction of vision onto the lane being driven on. The driver is less dazzled by the oncoming traffic.

Signage glare reduction

✓ Dynamic high beam is switched on. The glare of reflective traffic signs and other signage can – particularly when driving with high beams – cause the driver to be dazzled.
The signage glare reduction briefly dims individual LED segments of the vehicle’s low or high beam headlights in a targeted manner. The driver is dazzled less due to reflecting traffic signs and other signage.

Automatic headlight calibration

✓ No object in the field of vision that could be affected by the headlights during calibration.
✓ Vehicle positioned as straight as possible in front of a projection surface, such as a wall (distance > 5 m).
✓ Dipped beam on when vehicle stationary.
✓ Test run performed automatically when low beams are activated.
Automatic headlight calibration starts on its own if the conditions are right (depending on ambient lighting, a good projection surface). The LED segments of the headlight are automatically activated and deactivated repeatedly from right to left during calibration and detected by the camera (A).
Calibration is used to check headlight alignment and does not replace manual headlight adjustment.

Operating direction indicators and the high-beam stalk

• Fig. 111: Operating direction indicators, high beam and headlight flasher

1. Direction indicator / left parking light
2. Direction indicator / right parking light
3. High beams
4. Headlight flasher

Operating direction indicators

• Push the stalk past pressure point 1 or 2. The direction indicator remains active until the stalk is returned to the initial position manually or automatically due to steering wheel movement.

Engaging comfort direction indication

• Push the stalk once to pressure point 1 or 2. The direction indicators flash three times.
• In order to interrupt comfort direction indication, press the stalk in the opposite direction.

Switching high beam on and off
✓ Vehicles without Porsche Dynamic Light System
Plus (PDLS Plus).
– or –
Dynamic high beam deactivated.

Switching on

• Push the stalk once to pressure point 3.

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