<story><title>The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-us-will-finally-allow-adaptive-beam-headlights-on-new-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maursault</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be happy if local and state police just started issuing citations in earnest for misaligned headlights on pickup trucks. 99% of the pickups I come across at night have their low beams pointing straight instead of down at the road. It&amp;#x27;s so common that it can&amp;#x27;t be a coincidence that nearly every pickup truck has an illegal headlight configuration. And it isn&amp;#x27;t due to higher ground clearance, that&amp;#x27;s just their lame excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s something that should be caught in mandatory periodic vehicle safety inspections. I always thought it was weird that in large parts of the US that is simply not a thing (compared to places I&amp;#x27;m used to in the rest of the world where it seems totally normal)</text></comment>
<story><title>The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-us-will-finally-allow-adaptive-beam-headlights-on-new-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maursault</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be happy if local and state police just started issuing citations in earnest for misaligned headlights on pickup trucks. 99% of the pickups I come across at night have their low beams pointing straight instead of down at the road. It&amp;#x27;s so common that it can&amp;#x27;t be a coincidence that nearly every pickup truck has an illegal headlight configuration. And it isn&amp;#x27;t due to higher ground clearance, that&amp;#x27;s just their lame excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t help but think if the police are driving SUVs that are high off the ground, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t see this problem or be as affected.&lt;p&gt;Not that you&amp;#x27;re not right!&lt;p&gt;Another problem is aftermarket HID and LED lights which might not have any sort of legal pattern at all.&lt;p&gt;I liked reading (for years) this site regarding automotive headlamps, and there are problems:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.danielsternlighting.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;bulbs&amp;#x2F;Hid&amp;#x2F;conversions&amp;#x2F;conversions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.danielsternlighting.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;bulbs&amp;#x2F;Hid&amp;#x2F;conversio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;this site has been around for a while, see what they said about the NHTSA and glare in 2000:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.danielsternlighting.com&amp;#x2F;nhtsa&amp;#x2F;NHTSA.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.danielsternlighting.com&amp;#x2F;nhtsa&amp;#x2F;NHTSA.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>