Auto high-beams

[nutcase]

This. A thousand times this. I sometimes wonder if I have sensitive eyesight or everyone else is partly blind.

Agreed. Ridiculously bright over the last decade or so.

And I take it "auto high beam" was invented by the same pillock who decided DRLs only need to be on at the front.

 

[Howard]

People here genuinely don't use automatic lights or wipers?

Variable speed automatic wipers are awesome.

I don't use my automatic lights because a) I usually want them on before the car does and b) I fear for the life of my xenon bulbs and ballasts as they flash on and off when going under a bridge or heavily tree-lined section of road or something. Probably worrying about nothing but hey ho.

I use my auto wipers though - they're great. But from most peoples' description of how auto high-beams work, I'd probably disable them too. For an "automatic" function to be useful, it has to work well rather than just "exist".

 

[Deleted member 66701]

auto-high beams are not fit for purpose

+1

 

[Sagalout]

Auto high beams are rubbish. It's one of those technologies that just cannot work as well as a human. When operating manually you can see the subtle change of light in the distance that shows a car about to come around the corner, but there's no way a sensor will pick that up with other distant town lights and the throw from your own lights etc.

 

[TheVoice]

I don't use my automatic lights because a) I usually want them on before the car does and b) I fear for the life of my xenon bulbs and ballasts as they flash on and off when going under a bridge or heavily tree-lined section of road or something. Probably worrying about nothing but hey ho.

The systems aren't usually that sensitive/quick to react (for that very reason), but as you've said it's nothing worth worrying about anyway.