Automotive lighting system for a vehicle

A vehicular object detection system, said vehicular object detection system comprising:

• a plurality of automotive lighting devices installed at a body of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular object detection system;
• wherein each of said plurality of automotive lighting devices comprises a housing that contains a light source operable to illuminate exterior of the equipped vehicle;
• a LIDAR sensor disposed at the equipped vehicle;
• wherein said LIDAR sensor is operable to emit optical signals at least rearward of the equipped vehicle, and wherein optical signals reflected back to said LIDAR sensor are processed by an electronic control unit of said vehicular object detection system;
• wherein processing of reflected optical signals by said electronic control unit detects an object present exterior of the equipped vehicle;
• wherein, responsive to detection of the object present exterior of the equipped vehicle, illumination by at least one of said plurality of automotive lighting devices exterior of the equipped vehicle changes to adjust illumination of the detected object;
• and
• wherein, responsive to processing of reflected optical signals by said electronic control unit, brightness of illumination by said at least one of said plurality of automotive lighting devices exterior of the equipped vehicle increases from a first brightness value to a higher second brightness value for enhancing illumination of the detected object.

An automotive lighting system for a vehicle, said automotive lighting system comprising:

• an automotive lighting device disposed at a vehicle equipped with an external object detection system;
• wherein said automotive lighting device comprises a housing that contains a light source operable to emit a light beam exterior of the equipped vehicle;
• wherein said external object detection system comprises a LIDAR sensor;
• wherein said LIDAR sensor is disposed in said housing of said automotive lighting device;
• wherein said LIDAR sensor is operable to emit optical signals exterior of the equipped vehicle, and wherein optical signals reflected back to said LIDAR sensor are processed by an electronic control unit of said external object detection system;
• wherein processing of reflected optical signals by said electronic control unit detects an object present exterior of the equipped vehicle;
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• wherein, responsive to processing of reflected optical signals by said electronic control unit, at least one of (i) brightness of illumination by said light source exterior of the equipped vehicle increases from a first brightness value to a higher second brightness value for enhancing illumination of the detected object and (ii) coverage distance of a lighting area exterior of the equipped vehicle generated by said light source changes for enhancing illumination of the detected object.