The United States may be a land of freedom and opportunity, but it is also a place with some seriously dumb laws. Take Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 for example, which legally prevents ...

The first headlights to adorn automobiles weren’t all that much better than squinting real hard and hoping any cows in the road had the good sense to move out of your way. The dim light cast by early ...

The German luxury behemoths were the first to introduce high-tech adaptive headlights — BMW, Mercedes, and Audi all have some version of the technology — but now Ford is readying its own take on ...

Anyone who spends some time on backroads with moderate traffic will really appreciate the new adaptive high beam assist from Mercedes-Benz. The system automatically adjusts head light output to ...

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry's first fully integrated high-brightness LED matrix manager IC for adaptive automotive headlight systems. Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled a fully ...

In most motorbikes and cars, headlight controls are limited. They have a fixed direction of beam and it can only be switched between high beam and low beam. This makes it difficult to drive when there ...

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The indomitable Ben Purvis has found a patent that shows the Bavarians to be at work on a new kind of adaptive headlight. According to Purvis’s coverage (published on CycleWorld‘s platform), the ...

Night driving has quietly turned into a high‑stakes stress test for the human eye. As automakers have chased brighter beams ...

It's no secret that laws regulating vehicle safety in the United States are far from "cutting edge". With a divided Congress that changes every two years, it's no wonder that some of America's laws ...

You can't accuse BMW motorcycles of lacking gadgets - with the latest and greatest Beemers packing quickshifters, traction control, integrated ABS and all sorts of other goodies, they're right at the ...

Standard low-beam motorcycle headlights are next to useless in dark corners, so this week we've been playing with an aftermarket gadget that sorts the problem out. J.W. Speaker's Model 8790 Adaptive ...