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95% of the time I get blinded by an oncomming car's headlights, it is either a Tesla or a Mercedes.
The vast majority, it is a Tesla.
I read somewhere that a Tesla resets their headlight possitioning to the default value after every software update.
If that is true, I have two responses:
In any state that requires safety inspections that is 100% definitely illegal, proper headlight alignment is one of the things required to be checked to pass an inspection.
The question I had was if the responsibillity would be on the driver or on Tesla.
Let's assume the manufacturer actually disabled your brakes with an update or someone cut you break lines clean through and you then still drive around... The driver is at fault. You can not drive around with an unsafe vehicle just because someone else made it so, instead of actively doing it yourself. This goes as far as not noticing that your breaks are simply worn out (loud noise or light on the dash): You are absolutely liable if you fail to notice this.
With the manipulation it would be different if that would happen while driving, for obvious reasons.
Generally if you are putting others at risk because you do something: You are liable.
Exactly, however I would be willing to entertain the posibillity that Tesla would be found guilty of tampering in s separate case.
Yes, quite possible.
Unfortunately it is not just Telsa and Mercedes, I went out and surveyed this in a parking lot after an event a while back, while people were filtering out and getting in their cars to leave. It's many makes, Toyota, Kia, Chevy, Dodge etc.
How did you do that?
If the lights an equipped with auto-levelling feature, it will beam them down and up again upon every start for 2 reasons:
Interesting. I always wonder about that for my Tesla. The lights are insanely bright, but there’s also a clear sharp cutoff. I can see my headlights not shining above bumper height on the car in front of me. It seems like it is working as claimed and should not cause glare
Sure enough, other Tesla’s are the same. There might be a brief flash at certain angles but in general Tesla headlights are easy on the eyes.
Same with Audi ….. except some seem stuck on high beam
It’s other cars. I don’t know if people just drive with high beams on, or trucks have headlights too far off the ground, or people replace their old style bulbs with LED, without replacing the projectors