Comment on Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 year agoIn the US, night driving is 1000000000% worse than it was back in the day when everyone had shitty headlights. Now we’ve got those damn HIDs retrofitted into the wrong enclosure blinding oncoming traffic 1.2 million miles away.
Oh god. Please don’t remind me about the joys of putting HIDs in my car. I had to order a Japanese part, because of course America didn’t get HID headlights as an option and then had to open and replace the bit that threw the beam for RHD.
It was such a hassle to do it correctly.
Patius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, and it’s all because the US regs only allow for high and low beams that can’t redirect and rely on clunky sensors, if they’re automatic at all.
Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, cars have adaptive, beam forming headlights that successfully solved this problem in the early aughts. Even American autos have them - Ford’s are so precise they can even create images like the Ford Logo with their lights.
Still illegal to sell in the US because the NHTSA is refusing to allow them, even though Congress straight up told them to allow them a few years ago as a rider on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is fucking cool!
Slimy_Hog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LOL my country is fucked.