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I do not drive with my highbeams, but people often think I do because my car is stupid. :(... People will flash me and I'll flick the high beams on quickly to show them that, indeed, I'm not trying to be an asshole, my car is just poorly designed.
There are cars now that automatically dim sections of your highbeams when there's oncoming traffic as to not blind them, yet we can't adjust standard headlights when the nose of the car tilts up? Stupid.
This is gonna piss some people off, but the worst one is Toyota by a mile. I rent a lot of cars and they are the only one that I can see inside of other vehicles. They either dont adjust them or are purposely pointing them up for some sort of sales reason.
The auto dimming stuff isnt allowed the US yet. Other issue is most cars default to auto highbeams, which suck dick at turning off when needed.
Yes adaptive headlights are excellent. It’s finally coming to the US. I believe Tesla and Rivian have them and Audi is in the process.
It is definitely entertaining driving around with them on, watching the dark spot follow oncoming traffic
I’ve also seen referential self-leveling headlights but never paid attention to what those are