CarPlay and driving technologies

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@Shamino

I’ve never seen a car that automatically turns on the high beams. Many automatically turn on the normal headlights, but you always need to manually engage the high beams.

GM/Cadillac’s Intellibeam system does automatic high beams and has been around for some time as I posted earlier:

@aforkosh

With respect to auto-high beams:

My 2018 Prius has them. the way they are set is that you leave the headlight stalk in the high-beam position and use a push button on the dash (next to the auto-parking button above the driver’s left knee) to control whether the auto-feature is on or not. the setting is remembered across starts.

The headlights will stay on low beams when the speed is under 20 mph. Only above that speed do high beams become a possibility. It seems to do a good job of canceling high-bemas as soon as it senses any light approaching. Dashboard indicators show the status of the headlight and whether the automatic feature is engaged.

GM’s system using a cutoff of 25mph but otherwise sound similar.