This would be a great option!
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This would be a great option!
Every time I take the wife's car out at night, I am impressed with the adaptive headlights that adjust with the steering. For performance and safety, this would be a cool C7 option.. What do you think?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/adaptive-headlight.htm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/adaptive-headlight.htm
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Sounds like a good thing but will the light drive mechanism last 20 or 30 years like the car will. What happens when the lights stick to the right or left and you are driving straight ahead. If pointed left they could blind oncoming drivers. Solves one safety issue and creates other potential safety issues.
Bill
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Sounds like a good thing but will the light drive mechanism last 20 or 30 years like the car will. What happens when the lights stick to the right or left and you are driving straight ahead. If pointed left they could blind oncoming drivers. Solves one safety issue and creates other potential safety issues.
Bill
Bill
What happens if they fail depends on their failure mode. It could be they are forcibly moved off ostraight and the failure mode it straight. They it is really no problem if they fail. Some people may not real even notice.
They have engineers who think about this stuff. Some of it is even required by law. With certain headlights I think the regulation require self leveling, or washers.
I have much more prolems with the people that convert their own lights, and so don't have theose features, and may not aim them properly.
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The "what happens when it fails and becomes a hazard" questions are simply answered -- your car is broken and needs to get fixed. If you continue to drive it beyond what's necessary to get to safety, then the failure is not the automobile but the operator.
Trust that any system integrated into a modern automobile built by a major manufacturer and licensed for use on public roads will be engineered and built for reasonably reliable performance. If moving headlights failed prematurely with any frequency, there'd be a safety recall on them. So if Corvette gets these as an option, the safety benefits will far outweigh any safety problems their failures cause.
The argument of "more things to break" is too often taken to extreme. Bashing the 99.9% safety improvement with the spectre of the 0.1% failure condition is the opposite of automotive enthusiasm.
.Jinx
Trust that any system integrated into a modern automobile built by a major manufacturer and licensed for use on public roads will be engineered and built for reasonably reliable performance. If moving headlights failed prematurely with any frequency, there'd be a safety recall on them. So if Corvette gets these as an option, the safety benefits will far outweigh any safety problems their failures cause.
The argument of "more things to break" is too often taken to extreme. Bashing the 99.9% safety improvement with the spectre of the 0.1% failure condition is the opposite of automotive enthusiasm.
.Jinx
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I'd rather not having any more electonic stuff to fail - or be difficult to fix/replace years down the road.
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Tucker originally envisioned this feature back in 1948 for his cars. I can't remember if it was cost or engineering but he abandoned the idea on the fenders but instead had a single light in the center that turned in corners.
Everything old is new again.
Everything old is new again.
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Sounds like a good thing but will the light drive mechanism last 20 or 30 years like the car will. What happens when the lights stick to the right or left and you are driving straight ahead. If pointed left they could blind oncoming drivers. Solves one safety issue and creates other potential safety issues.
Bill
Bill
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Every time I take the wife's car out at night, I am impressed with the adaptive headlights that adjust with the steering. For performance and safety, this would be a cool C7 option.. What do you think?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/adaptive-headlight.htm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/adaptive-headlight.htm