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In today’s fast moving vehicle scenario, road safety is ofmost importance. Many people have lost their lives whiletravelling, due to a road accident. So we should reduce such accidents if we wish to travel safely. To cater this cause, wepropose an adaptive steering controlled headlight setup with only one headlight movable and one fixed according to turn.The system can be adopted in any type of four wheel vehicles/trucks or trailers etc. without being an economic burden on theend user. The idea of steering controlledheadlight is not new, but its adaptability according to the turn is its novel part. A lotof companies have developed technologies that incorporate turn able headlight to better illuminate the path, but thesetechnologies are quite expensive and continue to be distant from the majority of car owners. So we felt the need of developinga mechanism that incorporates few simple components like gears, linkages etc. and can be readily fitted onto any steeringcolumn without much of a design variations. The setup contains a rack and pinion gear mechanism with steering column andsome other mechanical parts. The headlight is used so that it has 1 degree of freedom i.e. it can rotate about its axis. Thissetup will be of huge aid to the driver, as it will permit him to see the incoming obstructions in hilly areas or in the regionswith sharp turns as it provides a better illuminated path as compare to previous adaptable headlights system with bothmovable.

Ajay R. Pawar, Shivraj S. Salekar, Tejas U. Mandhare, Sachin D.Pawar, Sanket S. Unune, “Design And Fabrication Of Movable Headlight System”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 5, pp. 254-259, May 2017.