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You can tell if it's highbeams by looking for four distinct points of light.

Some headlights are always bright, moreso than 10-20 years ago. Probably due to the recent surge in prevalence of LED assemblies.

It also does seem like the quantity of clueless people driving with the highbeams on 24/7 is on the rise.

Do people not know how to operate their vehicles? There is no good excuse for the highbeams to be on in excesse.

As a pedestrian, Teslas really suck with their auto-highbeam tech. It's friggin' blinding. Every. Single. Time.

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As a Tesla driver, I'm sorry and I don't like it either. I turn it off for normal driving but when using autopilot, it force enables the auto high beams. Arguably I shouldn't be using autopilot at night but ironically I was doing it so I could briefly shield my eyes when I get blinded by cars going the other direction.

As a Tesla driver, I'm equally sorry.

The auto high beams also turn on every time you stop and start the car.

The first thing I do when I start the car at night is disable them.

The auto high beam does sometimes turn off when the car detects oncoming traffic.

If it's any consolation, when autopilot is enabled, it also force enables auto windscreen wipers, so it will wipe my dry windscreen with a low frequency and a screetchy sound as it ruins the eye sight of oncoming traffic.

> If it's any consolation, when autopilot is enabled, it also force enables auto windscreen wipers, so it will wipe my dry windscreen with a low frequency and a screetchy sound as it ruins the eye sight of oncoming traffic.

Eh, not quite even... would you do us all a solid and toss a few thumbtacks into your seat?

Caltrops required.

Sorry, best I can do is leave the heated seat on for a little too long.

I have bad news... newer cars have automatic lights: the car swithes by itself between high and low beam. When I was in such a car, it kept high beam on even when another car was coming the other way. I told the driver that he should turn it off. He said: but they are automatic! Automatic or not, you are still responsible for what your car does. The problem is that these "features" are sold as beeing perfect by car manufacturers when in reality they barelly work.

Four distinct points of light would generally appear when the driver has their fog lamps on. These are different from high beams. In fact, a lot of drivers where I live tend to leave both on!

In many cars fog lights and high beams are mutually exclusive. You can't turn on both even if you wanted to.

Thanks, that of course makes intuitive sense. I suppose I'm simply noticing (like other people in this thread) that their low beams seem way bright (and that their fog lamps are on), and I never thought it through.

(In any case, a lot of people around me very clearly have their fog lamps on in non-foggy conditions, which I don't understand.)

Peugeot also have auto high beams

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