European manufacturers should be ahead of the game with their matrix headlights, well epecially over their Asian counterparts with their matrix headlights but, when a maufacturer like Hyundai produces matrix headlights that are more or less on par with BMW, there is something quite wrong, with the workings of europe thses days.
Declan I’m pretty sure the headlight issue was dealt with in a very early recall and believe our cars are not effected. Most people don’t know how the lights work tbh. When driving at night on auto full beam and a car approaches the right head light dims so that it won’t blind other drivers, but it is still full beam on left side. The fact that not all cars are flashing suggests it’s working. It’s been spoke about here about drivers being flashed when they know that full beam is off. Modern lights are so bright that some think that your full beam is on. Mine works well for oncoming cars but is hit and miss when coming in and out of street lights. Honestly it’s a shit set up and in my case is so slow to switch back to high beam so I started just flicking between high and low manually. Basically the lights are just shite and sometimes tech advances sound great on paper but are practically keke bobo. Sorry just reread your post and that makes sense as in it working. High beam will switch off in areas of street light as the car senses light everywhere in front. But if a car approaches it will only knock off the high beam on that side of the road and when behind a car still on full but slightly dipped so not to blind but still flooding road with light.
Good stuff Des, thanks. Yeah, the light technology has gone on to pixels but should have stayed with bog standard LED lights. As I said, my previous 3008 was dumber… but smarter!
Development for development’s sake isn’t always the best. Maybe they should fix and tie down the other areas that are causing us grief before moving on to complicated tech. I would still have given the car a try with the old LED’s. Nobody is buying the car because of flipping pixel popping lights!