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Originally Posted by Qsilver7
Just curious…is your headlight switch in the AUTO position? If yes, HBA defaulted to ON is basically the same thing.
Auto headlights that come on at dusk and turn off a dawn…HBA defaulted on is the same. The brights don’t come on when you’re driving around in urban areas or any well lit streets/roads/highways. The brights only turn on when they are needed. Which also means less stress on the turn indicator stalk as you manipulate it to turn the brights on/off vs doing it automatically using the KAFAS cams. Again, just another way to look at things.  |
Good point. I do use AUTO setting for daytime/low beam switching. But that is because I have yet seen an event where things go wrong with it.
Where I live, a lot of unlit areas begin with dual carriageways with long open stretches and different height barriers separating the road. This can create challenges to system where it is unable to detect vehicles due to barriers or road geometry. I also have selective high beam (steered high beam) which might have its own set of difficulties compared to regular HBA (disregarding irrelevant light sources, detecting vehicles, evaluating vehicle dimensions, calculating travel vectors). I do use it at every possibility because It will create an unlit corridor for uncoming and proceeding traffic so I can drive with high beams on even with traffic around me. Unfortunately, it is not perfect and I often find myself toggling it off because it doesn't react fast enough for certain situation. And not reacting fast enough can be really frustrating for oncoming drivers as I also have Laserlight. Where this system really shines are twisty forest roads and driving within constant traffic flow.
Interestingingly enough, KAFAS is much better at detecting yellow, incandecent headlights than it is white light of xenon or LED.