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Scotty-

  How about a vid and some info about adaptive headlights?  They have been illegal in the country until this year.  Looks like pretty neat headlight technology.  Thinking of waiting a couple years before jumping into the "get a new car" pool until adaptive headlights are available.

-- Joel


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Adaptive headlights are nothing new. They were out in the early 2010s on BMWs. A former coworker had them on his then-brand new 2013 335i. I had a 1994 540i at the time with glass headlights and thought the adaptive lights were cool. Scotty's mentioned them recently. If I remember right, he had a customer with a Lexus whose adaptive headlights went bad and he put stationary light assemblies back in. They're neat on exotic toy cars, but they're stupid on day-to-day, average Joe cars because they're more electronic and computerized crap where it's not needed and is expensive to fix when it breaks. Headlights have been fixed in place for 90+ years and they've worked just fine. 


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Cool, but gimmicky, all to charge more $$ for when new and when they go bad. Not a feature I care about now or in the future. I want less automation and gimmicks not more. 


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Just another piece of electronic junk that will stop working and cannot seem to be fixed.


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I had them on a 2009 RX350 and if we are talking about the same thing, they would put out light in the direction I was turning. Pretty neat at the time but not worth the extra money.


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How much does it cost, how long will it last, and how much will it cost to repair when it breaks?


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