[sojournerc]

It is here and sucks on curvy roads. My commute is down a mountain canyon and if I'm on the outside of a curve (turning left) the incoming traffic does not detect my headlights and I'm blinded for the entire curve. I want them banned. How hard is switching between high and low beams?

[mlyle]

We're not talking about auto high-beams. We're talking about headlights that mask out a portion (of even the normal beam) based on where other cars are.

[eqvinox]

Yes we are talking about the same thing. The recognizing other cars part of those systems is… not great. (yet? hopefully.)

[WarOnPrivacy]

> The recognizing other cars part of those systems is… not great. (yet? hopefully.)

Or bicyclists or pedestrians. We have all of automotive histroy to demonstrate that blinding others isn't necessary for driving, not even for comfort-level safety gains.

[mlyle]

I don't know how he'd be deciding which oncoming cars are equipped with this feature, as it's still uncommon. And he said " How hard is switching between high and low beams?" which seems to be more talking about auto high beams.

Better -something- that's trying to mask low beams than the alternative (nothing).

[eqvinox]

> I don't know how he'd be deciding which oncoming cars are equipped with this feature, as it's still uncommon.

The technology is required on some types of headlights (which you can recognise), because…

> Better -something- that's trying to mask low beams than the alternative (nothing).

…they also made low beams notably brighter and reach further (= extended the angular output). The alternative isn't nothing, it's less bright low beams.