Awesome Tips Forget Low Beams and High Beams, Headlights Are Getting Smart Instead
Adaptive-beam headlights have become legal in the US, allowing carmakers like Audi and BMW to give us what European and Asian drivers have enjoyed for years.
Adaptive-beam headlights have become legal in the US, allowing carmakers like Audi and BMW to give us what European and Asian drivers have enjoyed for years.
0:00 Adaptive Beam Headlights
0:58 New US Headlight Law Passed
1:39 Smart Headlights Have Been Available Outside the US
2:59 US Adopting Some European Headlight Laws
3:48 Where Will Smart Headlights Be Available
4:49 How To Drive With Adaptive Headlights
5:52 Augmented Reality AR Headlights
7:14 Will Smart Headlights Actually Work
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The million mirrors thing sounds like a DLP chip (digital light processing) which were used in old school projection TV's from the 2000s and still being used in some home theater projectors today.
“Smart” headlights cant be smart enough to see every oncoming vehicle on crests and other elevation changes, I have been blinded many times by these and if i made the law id ban them. Its bot that hard to pay attention and control it yourself , its part of driving
I’m fine not being able to get it because it’s too expensive. This feature is more beneficial to people not in that car but the ones passing it. It would be nice if they were inexpensive so more people could get it that way I would have a less likely chance of getting blinded.
These matrix lights have been in this part of the world for a decade. Why wait for the 'first few model years' when it's already mature tech?
But will they Turn-On Automatically — or, at the very least NOT illuminate the dashboard giving the driver & passengers a false impression the Headlights are ACTUALLY ON!?! It's baffling to see so many techies driving 2022 Teslas, Porches, Audis, etc without a single light in the dead of night! And don't get me started on Tesla's gratuitously blinding headlights!
If you live in the countryside and a pedestrian or a cow is being dazzled by your smart beam, what do you do? Or it will recognize them? Yeah, right… If they come, it will be like ACC… always turned off.
I have been driving a 1987 300ZX for years. I do not have to deal with SERVICE NEEDED lights or other bothersome beeps.
Weird that Cooley didn’t mention that this regulation comes from the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill passed by President Biden.
i just purchased a 2023 CX-50 with Adaptive Headlights. It turns 15-degrees to each side when the steering is turned.
If you thought headlights are expensive now 😅.
Great, maybe now Tesla will be forced to fix that blinding crap they put on the front of their cars!
"Headlights not Required"
If we put small magnets in the road, and make cars with low range transponders.
It will enable the autonomous vehicles to act more like a hive.
Without actually having to communicate.
So they can react properly to adverse conditions ahead.
Also never make vehicles that can receive outside data through electronic transmission.
Otherwise hacking of essential functions will occur.
System updates, should be downloaded.
Then plugged in to a port.
Same for roadside assistance.
Downloaded to a phone, then uploaded into a port.
It can transmit, diagnostics, and location only.
I shall believe it when I see it and have major doubts about the U.S. headlight and taillight situation. My car has these lights but via software is deactivated and I have MAJOR doubts that a dealer software update will enable these features.
High beams will be the default…this means that pedestrians and bikes will be blinded by default, because there’s no way this auto dimming tech is going to detect anything but other cars.
You mentioned BMW and Audi if you buy an Audi car that has a matrix headlight shouldn't that unlock that feature once that regulation is in effect on existing cars that have that feature in the US.
Being on a fixed income from a disability I doubt I will ever own and car with these headlights before I die. I have not had anything with a push button start
My dealer estimates fixing my high beams could be $700. Good luck to all of us.
I disagree on the higher end models getting these headlights manufacturers could make this headlight from the original manufacturers straight across the board because the more units of production the lower the price of cost.
Brian I’ve always felt that on your tail lights when you’re in a panic stop have them flash rapidly letting you know that person is pretty much 100% on their brakes in a panic situation I feel that would give us a slight one to two second heads up emergency situation.
About dang time we get the headlight situation updated in this country we are so far behind and headlight tech.
Good, because 90% of people don't understand how (or when) to dim their lights.
Citroen had a similar feature on its DSS and they couldn’t have that feature here in the US. I can’t believe the US is finally catching up to the French. 😅
High beams are annoying from behind as well, not just head on…
Adaptive smart headlights have been around on higher end vehicles for years… heck my 2015 Mazda CX5 had adaptive headlights with many of the features you spoke of???
Really cool solution!
Sounds great but there will always be reflective glare. Would likely be better than zombie drivers anyway.
BMW's in the USA with the adpative headlights option only need to be coded for them to work like the ones in Europe.
It really doesn’t matter how incredible the headlight technology has become because there are still so many people driving with day time running lights at night.
My Toyota Highlander has that 2021
So older cars are going to get totaled when a headlight cracks
And let's have more distractions with pictures on the road. Lol