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Plus this sometimes works during the day in shadey areas or when it is very overcast.
Or when people are idiots and just don't turn them on when they're supposed to.
You'd think with how prevalent automatic headlights are nowadays there'd be a lot less people driving with them off in the rain/dark, yet every single night I see at least one idiot doing it in a car that I know has automatic headlights.
Why do they turn this feature off? It's mind-blowing.
There are some very edge case scenarios where you’d want it off. Ex: a while back I was sitting in a parking garage and my headlights were shining right into some poor dudes face 0.5 floors below me.
But I think it mostly comes down to these people are fucking morons and probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive on public roads.
The issue could be solved with something similar to what ford does with their shift lever. If you turn the car off when it’s in drive and try to get out the car puts itself in park and the shift lever moves into the park position. Just do that with the headlights and snap them back into auto every time you turn the car on.
For sure. I turn mine off in parking garages. Then you know I turn them back on auto because I'm not a total idiot haha.
The idea of having lights on these buggies is literally counter to their whole belief system. You or I might not share the same world view but it is mind-blowing that you wonder why the Amish would not run electric lights on their horse and buggies........
Wait... I am an idiot and this was not the right statement to make in this case. Please point and laugh at me.
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It probably has more to do with always on dashboards and infotainment systems in SUVs more then anything else.