Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
theringer.com
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    25 days ago

    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:

    1. That is fucking dumb.
    2. 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.
    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        25 days ago

        The question I had was if the responsibillity would be on the driver or on Tesla.