National Highway Safety Administraion Archives - Marketplace

Adaptive headlights will soon make night driving brighter without blinding others

by Kai Ryssdal and Nicholas Guiang

Sep 14, 2022

The technology, new to the U.S., can potentially make driving at night safer, says David Aylor of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Adaptive beam headlights use a forward-looking camera to detect other vehicles and "create a shadow in the area of that car," says David Aylor of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

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