Agree. Shape and form all changes. Internals will be options. I do like the new HD Led. But am ok with having paid less for MY 23
How long before someone like NIO or Tesla offer "drive-in chargers" - your headlights project a movie on a screen in front of your car, while your car charges and you order food on your infotainment which is delivered to your car by autonomous waiters.
The demo is very impressive, but - one year in - I am undecided on the auto-high beams feature. It's pretty quick to respond, and fairly smart - I'm using "pretty" and "fairly" because it's not 100% reliable. It's slow to react in turns to oncoming traffic, sometimes it stops recognizing a car in front that's been there for a while, and it won't recognize some of the more "creative" headlights of incoming cars (like, say, broken headlights, or the jewel kind with the candlepower of a tea candle). Another aggravation, albeit second order, is that the camera needs to see oncoming headlights to dim, and there is always the very eager driver who starts flashing their beams from around the turn (ie before they have line of sight).
But you do not have Matrix lights do you?
I do not. However, the issue is not in the projection of light, it's in the recognition - and I really doubt that is much better with matrix lamps.
Yes it is very good for recognition. It blanks out the portion where car come towards you but light up the road ahead. For similar experience of matrix lights look at this video of a BMW i5! Same functionality on Taycan with full matrix leds
We seriously don't get heated washer jets? That is basic tech, if you can even call it tech...! ?
It feels as though I didn't make my point clear. The recognition aspect is what bothers me. I don't see any reason why recognition would be better with the "matrix" headline - as far as I know, it's fed by the camera(s), and some software that then decides which pixels to turn off (or, in my poverty-spec case, the light bulb itself).
Not even an option for a Taycan. Makes me wonder whether their choice to do winter testing at the arctic circle rather places with regular winters, caused them to never test windshield washer performance (everything frozen solid in the arctic, no salt on the ice tracks, nothing ever sticks to the windshield).
The recognition is with adaptive matrix headlights enabled is not different hardware, but it's tuned differently. It can be a lot more sensitive and do earlier detection, especially at the far distances, as with adaptive matrix it will just blank out a few pixels around the detection, but with NA auto-beam-lowering that effect would be amplified. While having your beam be modified to avoid a possible headlight in the opposing lane is barely noticeable, shutting off high beam at every low possibility of a headlight would be annoying. People outside of NA who have can experiment with both modes, and can see the difference between auto-high-beam vs. adaptive-high-beam. With the adaptive high beam it even blanks out upcoming traffic lights in a distance especially when there are 2 and are red, probably because they somewhat resemble tail lights of a car - no big deal for the driver since they really don't require illumination, but if that would shut off high beam it would be inconvenient.
If I may paraphrase, your statement is that detection is top-notch, but the decision making is more conservative for dumb lights?
