Are adaptive high beams more aggressive now?

[Matchbox]

Use adaptive brights the first time I drove in the dark when getting my Gen2 about 14 months ago. Couple flashes by other drivers gave me concern, but it was the neighborhood walkers that shaded their eyes and about went to their knees that made me turn it off. Been off ever since and will not put on. Pays to be a good neighbor.

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[SoCal Rob]

Use adaptive brights the first time I drove in the dark when getting my Gen2 about 14 months ago. Couple flashes by other drivers gave me concern, but it was the neighborhood walkers that shaded their eyes and about went to their knees that made me turn it off. Been off ever since and will not put on. Pays to be a good neighbor.

We got our Gen2 in May of 2025 and we’ve never gotten flashed by drivers or noticed by pedestrians. In fact, we’ve had the opposite problem where the system is too conservative on dark dirt roads. It seems to identify trees, low signs, and other items as vehicles or pedestrians and then carves out portions of the light, making it hard to see what’s going on.

I wonder if there is some calibration which can be done. That would explain why we had such different experiences, or it could be that an update after you stopped using the adaptive high beams but before we took delivery changed the behavior in a meaningful way.

I think It would be nice if the adaptive high beam system tied into the UHF/ADAS object detection so we could see on the driver’s display what is being identified. I’ve noticed that even on dirt roads, the road boundaries are represented very well in the driver’s display so the system is doing a good job of identifying what’s going on and seemingly better than the adaptive high beams.

 

[peakbaggersanonymous]

I'm still confused on whether OP has gen 1 *AUTOMATIC* headlights or gen 2 *ADAPTIVE* headlights. I think auto not adaptive. I wish people would put their gen/year in the vehicle info.

My auto headlights, gen 1, have been noticeably more aggressive towards high lately. Not terrible, never blinding anyone, but flashing too much so it may confuse drivers.

Gen2 with adaptive high beams. I updated my profile so it shows gen2 now!

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