Do you have a Mercedes with this technology?
Seems to work pretty good on a complicated windy country road last night
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Do you have a Mercedes with this technology?
Seems to work pretty good on a complicated windy country road last night
This video still gives me goosebumps. Honestly these are some of the most evil sounding cars on the face of the earth with a decat. Lovely car mate, enjoy
Might be a bit loud for me to live with that everyday but I am looking at getting the secondary cat out
Soldato
I'll admit, I've only experienced getting blinded by newer Mercedes that may or may not have the technology. But it's known that it's not great when behind a motorbike.
I have experienced Audi's and Seat's, it's not great and manual is the better selfless option. Id expect (hope) that Mercedes is better.
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Soldato
Unless the auto dipped beams are clever enough to see the glow of approaching full beams coming round a corner or over the brow of a hill and change preemptively, they will never be good enough. Changing when they see the approaching head lights themselves is too late, the other driver is already blinded.
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They use a camera to detect incoming light sources.
Though the basic system in my first F10 wasn't great (and it works the same way as that in the C class).
I'm only going off my experience last night to be honest, I was amazed how quick they dipped faster than I would have been able to
Note that most BMW's with HBA don't have a KAFAS camera, they have a more basic camera unless the car was additionally specified with LDW or SLI in which case they did get the KAFAS camera.
Mine didn't have a KAFAS camera
Note that most BMW's with HBA don't have a KAFAS camera, they have a more basic camera unless the car was additionally specified with LDW or SLI in which case they did get the KAFAS camera.
Mine didn't have a KAFAS camera
I have KAFAS...what can I say
There are a number of systems and it's been around for quite a while - the original system simply automatically dipped the full beam when the camera detected oncoming traffic.
This system was fitted to cars with Xenon lights and High Beam Assistant up to and including the pre facelift F10 5 Series.
The later system was more clever and varies the lighting individually on each headlight creating boxes of 'no light' around oncoming traffic, etc. This system is fitted to cars from the F30 3 Series and the facelift F10 5 Series onwards*
Then there is the system fitted to cars with Adaptive LED headlights, which is even more advanced.
*Annoyingly at the point at which this was introduced, Xenon lights themselves became standard fit. Previously they were not so most buyers opted for a Visibility Pack including HBA and Xenon's. After the facelift almost nobody bothered anymore so despite being probably one of the most incredible Xenon lighting systems ever made available on a BMW, virtually no F10 has it fitted. Even the salesmen didn't seem to realise how much better than the original system wsa.
Every night I cry myself to sleep over the fact my original F10 had HBA and it was gimmicky crap, and my new F10 does not have HBA and it's stunningly awesome.
Caporegime
Can we go back to talking about awesome V8's and not headlights?
Only joking I didn't really know this techno stuff existed, must buy cars with more toys in future
Only joking I didn't really know this techno stuff existed, must buy cars with more toys in future