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by cameldrv 553 days ago
My understanding is that in the U.S. it's allowed to have headlights that dynamically turn on and off the high beams depending on whether it sees a car coming. The more advanced Euro version has a spatial light modulator in the headlight that dims the light specifically in the direction of the oncoming car, while leaving the high beams on for rest of the area in front of the car.
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> headlights that dynamically turn on and off the high beams depending on whether it sees a car coming

A nice feature in theory, my mother-in-law's Toyota has this, but it doesn't work very well.

It's the default startup setting in my Honda CR-V. Too many things in cars are being automated like this. Not being able to dial in a windshield wiper speed and only having an "Auto" option drives me crazy because it usually guesses wrong.