Will the Cybertruck have adaptive headlights?

[SSonnentag]

With the signing of the Infrastructure Bill, adaptive headlights in the US will finally be allowed.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/adaptive-headlights-legal-us-biden-infrastructure-bill-law/

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[rr6013]

Retired Panama 2020.

Lighting is a clusterf#&%. Anything goes. Brite white rears, all red fronts, lightbars even flashing red/blue is legal on highway. Flashing your highbeams means the other guy is upset you hit him with highs.

European programmers I had working for me loved the US DOT old fashioned headlamps. A German’s refrain that it was so great not to be blinded by the latest high power headlights. His takeaway was that the US accidentally has something to value. Adopting EU lighting standards would be a huge mistake.

See how Panama is mixed lighting, I’d say there’s only misplaced envy chasing after Audi’s solution to a problem of its own making.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

It might be the running lights rather than the headlights. We'll see.

 

[Ogre]

I suspect tesla is going to switch to adaptive headlights for everything. Safety Is one of Tesla‘s fundamental values. Adaptive headlights make the road safer for the driver, the other drivers, and makes FSD more accurate. It is almost guaranteed. Not sure if they will have them in generation 1, but if not, very soon after.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

I suspect tesla is going to switch to adaptive headlights for everything. Safety Is one of Tesla‘s fundamental values. Adaptive headlights make the road safer for the driver, the other drivers, and makes FSD more accurate. It is almost guaranteed. Not sure if they will have them in generation 1, but if not, very soon after.

Did you see the adaptive headlight demo they showed at the giga berlin county fair? Very cool.

 

[Ogre]

Did you see the adaptive headlight demo they showed at the giga berlin county fair? Very cool.

That’s where I saw those, yes I did.

I’ll bet every Tesla will have them soon then.

 

[Cyberman]

I voted yes. I still don't know what the hell it is.

 

[Ogre]

I voted yes. I still don't know what the hell it is.

Magic headlights.

They shine light everywhere other cars aren’t.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

I voted yes. I still don't know what the hell it is.

On my current car when I turn the steering wheel the lights also turn to show the curve and not just straight ahead.

 

[Crissa]

On my current car when I turn the steering wheel the lights also turn to show the curve and not just straight ahead.

But in the current models, they're not allowed to steer outside where your lights are allowed to shine anyhow. They're still superior, but not as much as ones that could shine up and down hills or further around corners or selectively shutter to avoid blinding other drivers...

-Crissa

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

But in the current models, they're not allowed to steer outside where your lights are allowed to shine anyhow. They're still superior, but not as much as ones that could shine up and down hills or further around corners or selectively shutter to avoid blinding other drivers...

-Crissa

Mine never went up/down nor could they have blinded other drivers (I hope) as they always pointed to the inside of the curve along the side of the road. Most of the driving I do where I actually noticed them working was on highway 92 where the inside of the curve is a mountain.

I wonder what the point of adaptive lights is if they are not allowed to shine outside where the lights would shine anyway. Perhaps just to focus your attention?

 

[Dids]

I voted yes. I still don't know what the hell it is.

 

[Crissa]

I wonder what the point of adaptive lights is if they are not allowed to shine outside where the lights would shine anyway. Perhaps just to focus your attention?

That's why the new change is so exciting.

But mostly they don't blind over drivers.

-Crissa

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

That is so cool!

 

[Dids]

Given the current ct style is led light bar inlaid with the shell, can't see how they could make them adaptive.

Light bar is flush with the shell, if you rotated the light bar it would stick out from the shell and be prone to break.

Light bar also impossible to have the light source rotate aim behind the lens because there is no lens and space between light source and lens which would allow rotating aim of light source.

All current implementations of adaptive headlights are on standard headlight fixtures where the light source is multiple inches behind the fresnel lens and the bulb itself is what rotates in place to move the aim.

With no fresnel lens, you get no aim without the whole light bar rotating. That light bar is multiple feet long. You can imagine how much it would stick out even from a slight rotation. And how much space behind it you would need room for it to move.

The CT light bar is and always was adaptive headlight tech. The question was would they be allowed to use it.
Modern adaptive lights are a led matrix they do not steer a lens. They selectively light segments that are projecting a certain distance and direction and have a camera that monitors to darken sections that would blind.

Model Y and Model 3 refresh even in the USA has led matrix headlights. They are just disabled from adaptive mode.

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