Reconfigurable headlamp and a control system for reconfiguring a vehicle lighting system

A control system for operating a vehicle illumination system to comprising:

• at least one headlamp fixture having a plurality of tight source elements, each including a semiconductor light source and a pattern optic, light from the semiconductor light source being conveyed to the pattern optic via a light pipe, the pattern optic being designed to substantially vertically constrain the light emitted from the light source element and to substantially horizontally spread the light emitted from the light source element, the light emitted from the light source elements creating the desired high beam and low beam patterns, each headlamp fixture capable of providing a high beam illumination pattern and a low beam illumination pattern;
• at least one other light fixture;
• a global positioning system receiver operable to determine the country or region in which the vehicle is being operated in;
• a controller, responsive to a signal received from the global positioning system receiver to alter the operation of at least one of the at least one headlamp fixture and the at least one other light fixture to a right side driving or left side driving position as by determined country or region that the control system is located;
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• wherein the at least one light source element is moveable by the controller between first and second opposed inclinations providing the side illumination pattern during right side driving and left side driving operation of the vehicle in which the headlamp fixture is installed.