> In February 2022, after being required to by Congress' Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a rule officially allowing automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights onto new vehicles.
> Adaptive driving beams automatically adjust the high beams
That's super strange. Many cars in USA today already advertise adaptive high beams, and have for years.
Anyway this completely misses the point. The problem we have is not due to high beams blinding you (that does happen, but it's just driver error and it's 5% of the time if that), it's due to general misalignment, as the article notes earlier. I'd love to say I'm surprised by this bad conclusion, but this is BI so it's just normal clickbait for them.
Annual, or maybe biannual, inspection that includes headlight aim is an obvious and easy fix. As well as enforcement and fines. If socal can have a roaming on-the-spot emissions testing unit, they can also have a unit that just tags people for bad headlights. they'd rake in dollars.
> Adaptive driving beams automatically adjust the high beams
That's super strange. Many cars in USA today already advertise adaptive high beams, and have for years.
Anyway this completely misses the point. The problem we have is not due to high beams blinding you (that does happen, but it's just driver error and it's 5% of the time if that), it's due to general misalignment, as the article notes earlier. I'd love to say I'm surprised by this bad conclusion, but this is BI so it's just normal clickbait for them.
Annual, or maybe biannual, inspection that includes headlight aim is an obvious and easy fix. As well as enforcement and fines. If socal can have a roaming on-the-spot emissions testing unit, they can also have a unit that just tags people for bad headlights. they'd rake in dollars.