It's not as the Hummer was ever any better in any aspect -to the notable exception of gaz-guzzling, admittedly because the cybertruck guzzles another kind of energy.

You know the Hummer is electric now, right?

It's also a MUCH more capable vehicle than the Turdla cyberdumpster.

And the H1 Hummer is a HMMWV with air conditioning. It's a military vehicle that's actually designed to do what the Turdla looks like it might be designed to do. Yeah, it's a gas guzzler, but it's not a sad joke.

Just wondering if anything happened following reports a year ago that the rain was damaging the paint. Or something like that

"US motor vehicle safety regulations"

Does that DT know about these? Socialism gone mad!!!!!

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It's fixed by a software up date?

It's a fucking headlight. Let me guess it's DRM locked so if you want to swap it out when goes faulty, you'll need to go to Tesla to pay 10K because a 3rd party or 2nd hand one won't be allowed to work.

I'm guessing there is a PWM driver that controls the brightness. It may even react to ambient light levels. So a software update to the embedded controller seems quite plausible.

I only wish other manufacturers would do something about their ridiculously bright LED headlights. Not to mention the accent lights that are making cars look more like Light Cycles...

It would be really useful if cars in UK and Europe could be switched between left and right hand drive headlights rather than having to stick a bit of tape on them. Shirley it must be possible what with them cars being awash with software (and my latest one has a little play with levelling the lights when you power it up in the dark). I asked VW about this for a newish T-Roc and got told that the beam isn't bright enough for oncoming vehicles if you're driving in Europe if you have a UK car. I didn't believe that. Wouldn't want to cause one of these -->

Not sure about other makes / models, but a mate has an Audi S5 convertible, & you can do that exact thing via the hated touchscreen. He'd made several foreign trips with tape stuck to the headlights before someone who'd R'TFM "enlightened" him. He's not one for reading manuals.

Also Porsche 911s from mid 90s onwards (iirc) had a small lever on the back of each headlight to flip between left & right-hand traffic.

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The Audi's trick is made possible by it's having Matrix LED headlamps wherein the LEDs are in a shaped array, & the car can turn individual LEDs on & off to point light to precisely where it's wanted (& vice versa for dipped beam.) This also enables the steerable headlight beams that a lot of posh cars have now. Hopefully a lot more reliable than the mechanical steerable ones in the Citroën SM that had a linkage connecting them to the steering.

(There's a promo of an S Class Merc using it's headlights to project a movie against a wall in surprisingly high res. Pointless, but striking.)

Its not even posh cars these days, its available on higher end versions of most cars.

Did see a demo of it maintaining high bean while not blinding drivers on the other side of the road.

Some can. My Skoda Superb 2017 model can, although you lose the steering linked headlight aim adjustment when the lights are set for driving on the 'wrong' side of the road, presumably as there is not enough possible adjustment to go even further right. The menu option is buried quite deep though.

> I only wish other manufacturers would do something about their ridiculously bright LED headlights. Not to mention the accent lights that are making cars look more like Light Cycles...

How about the ridiculously bright accent lights?

Was followed, in the rain and dark, by a car that was too close. Even though I could not see the headlights in the rearview (too close!) was still being dazzled by the bleeping stupid line of light along the top of the grille and this glaring white disc in the centre.

It was only after seeing the same car from the front in broad daylight - when it still looked too bright not to be a distraction - that I found out that disc was a VW logo. Great advertising gimmick - I'm going to remember that for a while. As if Golf drivers weren't enough of a pest, now they've got a model out for the "for f's sake, if I'm going too slow for just you, bleeding overtake, oh god you don't know how, do you" class of driver.

If you slow down enough they'll work out how to overtake. Don't brake check, just lift your foot off the pedal and wait.

"I only wish other manufacturers would do something about their ridiculously bright LED headlights."

The problem I have with them is that there is *NO* warm up time, or any kind of soft start, so your eyes have no time to adjust when they flash their high beam. Halogen lamps have a short but sufficient warm up time, even HID headlight lamps have a warm up.

The regulators have completely failed with vehicle lighting regulations over the last 25+ years. Turn indicators should not be allowed to use clear lenses*, and the front ones should be positioned at the front of the car and not halfway round the sides. And I'm fucked off with getting a face full of 3rd brake light in every traffic queue. And why do all LED lights have to use PWM and visibly flash? LED's are DC devices that work at any current up to their rated maximum, just use a lower current or fewer or smaller LEDs.

* Changing luminance is more noticeable than changing chrominance.

For phsyiological reasons, it turns out that an LED being driven with PWM to the same average current as a constant current device appears brighter. I have no idea why.

There seems to be a small but growing trend of drivers who keep their headlamps on main beam at all time on motorways. About 1 in 10 at the moment, and almost all of them electric SUVs.

I'd argue strongly that the only switch required for lights is main beam/dip select. Leave the headlights on at all times the vehicle is moving, make driving on (front) sidelights illegal and do away with ridiculous coloured-pencil-brigade inspired 'accent' lights. Forget the complex switch, forget automatics that invariably don't work well, save production costs.

You get a simple truck that is loaded a bit in the back (trash run, perhaps a trailer) and the angle of the beams (driving, high, etc.) are all pointing too high.

Lowering the dimness would help but if that LED beam is coming at your face while you're trying to stay in your lane and wondering if you'll swerve just right.

Now, i'm not suggesting that Tesla add a new gadget to their line of frivolities, but how about a beam angle adjuster with a joystick toggle? I'm sure people that buy Tesla stuff are responsible and won't use it for duels...

Now they just need to hire someone to redesign the headlights on all their other models.

Are wildly exaggerated. Musk has been having his other companies buy THOUSANDS of them, so the number of actual sales to third parties is even less than the "official" numbers.