auto brights

[YBABRAT]

Even though some who have the feature complain how touchy it is, it find it better than most other brands. Why?, you may ask. Because most all auto bright equiped that are behind me are very annoying with brights a mile away going on and off for on coming cars. Even if they are in front the constant off on. Even if I had that it would be very annoying as a driver. People don't get it... brights are made for rural areas not modern highways and foggy streets. Also the standard of brightness for regular beams are higher than brights made back in the 60s and 70s... pre halogens

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[Pape]

So what you are saying is that peoples have no clue about using high and low beam and that automated system make to fix the peoples issue is not better ?

 

[Fleeclan]

Even though some who have the feature complain how touchy it is, it find it better than most other brands. Why?, you may ask. Because most all auto bright equiped that are behind me are very annoying with brights a mile away going on and off for on coming cars. Even if they are in front the constant off on. Even if I had that it would be very annoying as a driver. People don't get it... brights are made for rural areas not modern highways and foggy streets. Also the standard of brightness for regular beams are higher than brights made back in the 60s and 70s... pre halogens

Point being what?
And, “brights are made for rural areas not modern highways and foggy streets” is written where? High beams are made for seeing better than what the low beams allow you to see and “foggy” anywhere conditions aren’t for high beams unless you just want to see more fog. Plenty of “modern” highways that have crappy lighting, people walking on shoulder, deer crossing randomly, etc.; so why would high beams not be a good idea? Lastly, in the 60’s and 70’s the max speed on the highway was 55 not 70 so seeing further and better is certainly a plus for the added speed.

Now as to auto brights being annoying, I can agree somewhat. My Escalade is pretty efficient and even dims when I have tail lights in front of me that are about at the distance I would normally dim my lights. The only thing I have against the system is sometimes it goes to high beam if a car is oncoming from a curve and takes a few seconds to dim once that car gets headed straight toward me but it’s usually pretty on top of the game.

I have a bigger problem with all the idiots driving slow in the left hand lane, motorcycles that think their time is more important than mine, cutting between the lanes, and all the rest of the million bone heads that don’t deserve a license rear ending people while surfing fb, Instagram and Chinese TikTok while driving. Take all these idiots of the road and give me oncoming high beams any day.

 

[Wbino]

I think the auto high beams work great, it was a unexpected feature when I ordered my 2021.
Lots of deer by me and I can use all the help I can get spotting them in low lit areas.

 

[Heimkehr]

Mm. It's not often that I'm of two minds on a particular feature's functioning in a vehicle, but I am where the Auto headlight setting is concerned.

My wife's Honda has that feature, my Jeep doesn't.

To be fair, the automatic switching of Low and High beams in her vehicle works about as swiftly as can be reasonably expected. It's the very rare instance when said switching is sluggish.

She moved the headlight switch to Auto on the day she took delivery of the vehicle in 2019. It hasn't been disturbed since then, other than by the dealer tech during the annual State inspection process.

My issue is that certain other vehicles and/or brands with the same feature seem not to work as efficiently as does my wife's Honda. More than thrice have I flashed my headlights at oncoming drivers who didn't extinguish their high beams, only to then observe that they never do so. My hot take is that they can't be bothered to do so manually, and that they're unwilling to disturb the headlight's Auto setting.

This might just be something that we have to tolerate for now.

 

[AndySpill]

What triggers auto high beams to deactivate?

Let me rephrase that. Say an oncoming vehicle (there's a method to my madness here) didn't have its headlights on even though it was dark out. Would the auto high beams still turn off, or are the mechanisms that turn off the high beams perhaps photosensitive to an oncoming vehicle's head lights? Maybe it depends on the vehicle's specific mechanisms for handing this.

I am finding greater desire to wear sunglasses walking the dog at 10PM than 10AM. I don't mean to sound like some "get off my lawn" old geezer but the lumens on headlights have increased considerably over the years not to mention the addition of the high beams this auto high beam tech produces.

I get the safety they provide. I'm just wondering if walking the dog with one of those combat flashlights, shining into the oncoming vehciles, parked but cranked, or moving, might get those high beams to turn off.

 

[WillysMeow]

...I have a bigger problem with all the idiots driving slow in the left hand lane, motorcycles that think their time is more important than mine, cutting between the lanes, and all the rest of the million bone heads that don’t deserve a license rear ending people while surfing fb, Instagram and Chinese TikTok while driving. Take all these idiots of the road and give me oncoming high beams any day.

Mines got auto highbeams, never use it, don't need it, people need to learn to drive again and pay attention to the driving business at hand while doing so. Don't need or want anything automatic on my Jeep, just cost more and another thing to go wrong.

Completely agree with your last paragraph!

 

[Fleeclan]

What triggers auto high beams to deactivate?

Let me rephrase that. Say an oncoming vehicle (there's a method to my madness here) didn't have its headlights on even though it was dark out. Would the auto high beams still turn off, or are the mechanisms that turn off the high beams perhaps photosensitive to an oncoming vehicle's head lights? Maybe it depends on the vehicle's specific mechanisms for handing this.

I am finding greater desire to wear sunglasses walking the dog at 10PM than 10AM. I don't mean to sound like some "get off my lawn" old geezer but the lumens on headlights have increased considerably over the years not to mention the addition of the high beams this auto high beam tech produces.

I get the safety they provide. I'm just wondering if walking the dog with one of those combat flashlights, shining into the oncoming vehciles, parked but cranked, or moving, might get those high beams to turn off.

My Escalade recognizes headlights and tail lights. Sometimes if my headlights reflect crazy off the back of a shiny new aluminum road sign it will activate the low beams for a few seconds.

Mines got auto highbeams, never use it, don't need it, people need to learn to drive again and pay attention to the driving business at hand while doing so. Don't need or want anything automatic on my Jeep, just cost more and another thing to go wrong.

Completely agree with your last paragraph!

Yeah, not a fan of auto stuff. I don’t use the auto high beams on my Escalade. Never even looked to see if my Rubicon has that feature. Only thing I use on my Escalade is the auto wipers; they work extremely well when the rain is light enough that the slowest setting on intermittent is still to often. Self drive is ignorant period! Parallel park assist is for people that don’t know how to park! Auto braking is dangerous in my opinion! My Escalade will brake pretty hard if someone cuts in front of me too closely. Irritates me big time. Too many non-drivers on the road.

 

[The Last Cowboy]

I've never found it distracting, annoying, or inconvenient to have to decide when to activate my high beams, then *gasp* do it myself.

 

[Wbino]

They shut off on approaching cars and turn on when it does not sense a car in front of you.
One less thing to distract you while you are concentrating on the road ahead.

 

[kah.mun.rah]

According to every car I follow or every car coming towards me, I have high beams on all the time with my factory LED lights.

 

[Fleeclan]

They shut off on approaching cars and turn on when it does not sense a car in front of you.
One less thing to distract you while you are concentrating on the road ahead.

I figure it’s like walking and chewing gum at the same time to use high/low beams, blinkers, etc. If folks can’t manage that they don’t need to be driving on the same roads as me and my family! My two cents anyway.

 

[Ratbert]

Mm. It's not often that I'm of two minds on a particular feature's functioning in a vehicle, but I am where the Auto headlight setting is concerned.

My wife's Honda has that feature, my Jeep doesn't.

To be fair, the automatic switching of Low and High beams in her vehicle works about as swiftly as can be reasonably expected. It's the very rare instance when said switching is sluggish.

She moved the headlight switch to Auto on the day she took delivery of the vehicle in 2019. It hasn't been disturbed since then, other than by the dealer tech during the annual State inspection process.

My issue is that certain other vehicles and/or brands with the same feature seem not to work as efficiently as does my wife's Honda. More than thrice have I flashed my headlights at oncoming drivers who didn't extinguish their high beams, only to then observe that they never do so. My hot take is that they can't be bothered to do so manually, and that they're unwilling to disturb the headlight's Auto setting.

This might just be something that we have to tolerate for now.

I'm trying to figure out if you're trying to blame auto headlights on people's refusal to dim their lights. That's not what you're saying, right?

 

[Wbino]

Buses have three foot pedals on the floor for your left foot, left and right turn signals and high beams.

Fourth one throws up a Emergency Call Police sign.

 

[Texas Longhorn]

If your old enough, you know cars use to come with the high beams button on the floor next to the pedals.

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