Forget Low Beams and High Beams, Headlights Are Getting Smart Instead
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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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BMW’s in the USA with the adpative headlights option only need to be coded for them to work like the ones in Europe.
Sounds great but there will always be reflective glare. Would likely be better than zombie drivers anyway.
Really cool solution!
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???
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. 😅
Good, because 90% of people don’t understand how (or when) to dim their lights.
About dang time we get the headlight situation updated in this country we are so far behind and headlight tech.
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.
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.
My dealer estimates fixing my high beams could be $700. Good luck to all of 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
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Great, maybe now Tesla will be forced to fix that blinding crap they put on the front of their cars!
If you thought headlights are expensive now 😅.
i just purchased a 2023 CX-50 with Adaptive Headlights. It turns 15-degrees to each side when the steering is turned.
Weird that Cooley didn’t mention that this regulation comes from the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill passed by President Biden.
I have been driving a 1987 300ZX for years. I do not have to deal with SERVICE NEEDED lights or other bothersome beeps.
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.
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!
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?
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.
“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
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.
Speed limit posted on the headlights, sorry officer my headlight said 200 mph was the limit. Blame Audi.
1:36 “they couldn’t both be on at once”
What? Quad headlight setups usually have all 4 bulbs lit when high-beams are on. My Smart ForTwo illuminates all 4 bulbs when high-beams are turned on.
Approved years ago. Still not one on the road in the USA. Don’t hold you’re breath on the NHTSA testing. maybe 2030.
Worst. Gimmicky. Idea in the history of man , designed to erode the nations eyesight over the next decade
Let me find some citation, but I recall that the headlamps were being removed as well as the animated lights when you locked / unlocked the car. My 22 was supposed to have a kick sensor for the trunk but they gave me an iou coupon to have installed retroactivly.
This isn’t anything new. Only new in the U.S.. it’s been in Europe for 20 years already.
Informative Technology / USA Law Video… I own a 2007 Audi A6 Avant with Adaptive Headlight Bi-Xenon Option (Part of the Technology Package) that apparently has been “Coded” from the Factory not to function as designed. Now I just need to find out how to Change the Coding to reflect “Rest Of The World” and not USA (VAG-COM / VCDS )? BTW, that’s what I was searching for when I came across this Video. Randy AKA randog311