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Originally Posted by Matsuda
Took advantage of the weather today
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I did too! After the windstorm last night and living next to 60 - 80ft pines and cedars...they dropped a lot of crap all over. LOL
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Originally Posted by !Aznboi128
It's kinda dumb how here in NA we can't take full advantage of those lights.
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After a bit of coding you can make the headlights do anything the Euro's get to enjoy.
My dad's '14 535d has adaptive variable LEDs which all move independently of each other as well as a shutter for more extreme light control that moves as the camera tracks cars taillights or headlights in front. You can see in the fog, it was very easy to see the high beams stay on around the car in front without shining any excess light into their face. It also moves the high beam for oncoming and continues to track them too. Such an advanced system that is such a joy to use as it reacts faster than I can easily, since the camera system is higher than my eye level.
One drawback is in the rain which you should not use this function as high light will glare against the wet pavement and/or wet side concrete medians which is dangerous for those ahead. It's simple to defeat this system and revert to normal auto-high beams by turning on the fogs or manually hitting the "all-the-time high beams" switch to off. That's probably one thing most NA drivers are not fast enough to think about until it's too late which is why it's probably not turned on for cars on this continent. Seeing when I drive at night I often see cars with just their DRLs on and not headlights, thus no taillights because their speedo is always lit up.
