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   Sam Levine (srlevine@urbanists.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:34:50 JST Sam Levine

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   Also 🤬 to this comment (on new adaptive driving beams) "“It allows the vehicle to have high-beam basically everywhere, except where there are other cars,” Aylor said. “So it uses that [front-facing] camera and the technology to sort of track where other cars are on the road, and the headlights can turn off LEDs in those areas so that you're not glaring cars, but you’re getting high-beam visibility in all the other areas.”

   Because only people in cars matter.

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     Sam Levine (srlevine@urbanists.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:34:51 JST Sam Levine

     Ha! The whole headlight placement thing is real (and not just in my head) and does cause problems!

     https://laist.com/news/transportation/wondering-why-headlights-seem-brighter-placement-is-part-of-the-problem-experts-say

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.