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The War Against Headlight Brightness (theringer.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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:

That is fucking dumb.
I wouldn't be surprised if it would actually be determined to be illegal, though they would probably argue that it is the driver's responsibility to check their vehicle before driving, which would be a fair argument unless if the car didn't change the settings on it's own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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:

to test, the levelling mechanism isn’t broken
to prove during inspection, that this feature is not broken.

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