Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?

x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ZJBlank@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I fucking wish, we rarely get that here in North America. I had that on my old Mazda 3, and fucking loved it. I’d always keep them angled all the way down in the city with well-lit streets and only angle them up on the highway

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  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From what I’ve been told it’s for when you’re transporting heavy stuff.

    But that’s very nice of you.

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    • ZJBlank@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re right, it’s intended to compensate for extra sag of the rear suspension, but if I don’t need them aimed up then I might as well keep them down so as not to dazzle any oncoming drivers

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That requires the driver to actually care

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• nexusband@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That would need proper training - meaning a drivers license that’s worth the plastic it occupies. Which it isn’t. Compared to the EU, a north American driver’s license is like letting a paper plane flyer in an A380 and saying “There’s the light switch, there’s the Autopilot, go fly”.

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• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This, and the one facing the other side of the road needs to be angled lower than the other one, that’s it.

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  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think even custom headlights come from the factory with that angle stuff in them. They do need to be lined out occasionally though.

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dint think they make those on BMWs, or at least not my neighbors bmw.

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  • pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Modern BMWs auto-level, so they don’t need manual adjustment.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Based on the one time I’ve driven their electric SUV, they auto level to blast and dazzle the cars in front of me. Together with the GPS that only told you about the offramp you need at the last second, I felt like a serious road hazard.

      Never driving that thing again.

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    • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks like a 2015ish car, would that be modern enough?

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