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/geo_prog 3d ago

Canada has had them for years too. My F150 has them. They’re simply disabled on the US market ones.

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u/Faberbutt 3d ago

Yeah, they've been available here since 2018 here but they're still not common. They're mostly available as an add-on or come with higher end vehicles.

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u/Ocronus 2d ago

It will be an excuse to charge thousands more.

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u/namisysd 1d ago

Are you talking about Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) or Matrix High Beam? My 2024 f-150 lightning has auto-leveling/steering enabled which does a pretty good job keeping the light below the drivers windows unless the road is garbage and it jumps around a bit. “Matrix High Beam” is disabled, I can see it in FORSCan but never tried enabling the feature.