2012 Ford Focus Ambient Lighting

As you know the new Ford Focus hosts a large number of great and very useful features, with the latest being a new Ambient Lighting system.

This system is very simple and yet almost necessary in every car! It can illuminate, assist or warn a drive. It has search light to locate misplaced items and door ajar warning, plus seven interior accent colors for instrument panel, cupholders and footwells.

This system like other features of the new Focus is designed to make the life and the job of driving easier for the driver, thus improving safety.

Focus Ambient lighting functions:

Ever misplaced a small item in the footwells or in the storage pocket of a car door, at night? It has happened to Eardley and his teammates working in Ford’s interior environment group. This momentary inconvenience was the inspiration for the ambient lighting “search light” functionality. Flip a switch on the instrument panel of the all-new 2012 Ford Focus and all of the ambient lighting points – doors, footwells and cupholders – are bathed in bright white light to help a driver find misplaced items inside the car.

If the driver of a 2012 Ford Focus swings the door of the parked car open into a travel lane, approaching motorists, pedestrians and cyclists would be warned of an open door by the red illumination of the door’s ambient lighting.

In addition to serving as a warning signal to other traffic of an open Focus door, it notifies vehicle occupants of a door being improperly latched, or ajar.

Welcome and departure lighting

Collaboration between Ford interior light engineering and driving environment teams has resulted in the welcome and farewell lighting illumination now featuring a two-stage sequence, from instrument panel to dome lighting, enhancing the customer entrance and exit experience.

Engaging “play protection” through the ambient lighting switch ensures that children inside the vehicle will be unable to operate the dome light. This also helps to ensure that the interior lighting won’t be inadvertently left on.