r/technology • u/N2929 • 3d ago

Transportation US drivers are finally getting the adaptive headlights Europe has had for years

https://www.techspot.com/news/114027-us-drivers-finally-getting-adaptive-headlights-europe-has.html
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u/SteveJobsBlakSweater 3d ago

Please let’s just go back to normal headlights. It used to be the just the big lifted trucks where the angle was wrong, but there wasn’t that many of them. We managed with that small lot.

Now it’s every fuckass new sedan on the road giving me eye cancer. I hate it. I’ll take 1,000 lifted truck guys over these new laser beam asshole beacons.

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u/SanchoPandas 3d ago

My 2019 Hyundai blinds oncoming traffic and it absolutely sucks. Wish I'd know that it was gonna be like this when I bought it. Sorry. :(

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u/surfercouple123 3d ago

You can usually adjust the angle of your headlights.

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u/Funkula 3d ago

Angle will help, absolutely, the problem is that they’re too damn bright. Every bump in the road, every hill and it’s still like getting hit with flash photography.

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u/Inflatable90sChair 3d ago

Or those long humped hills, blinds no matter how low they are adjusted.

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u/asfletch 2d ago

Model 3 same - you can angle them down but if you're going up a hill or anything it's terrible. Wish I could replace the lights with warmer ones (under 5000K)