HD Matrix lights in action

[davidh]

This is no longer an issue with HD matrix. The left side light only up as high as typical barriers here in Germany.

I only got flashed at once so far on a divided road and that might have been because it was wet.

I also think that the range is indeed adaptive to speed - at least it always feels like that on a divided road going from 100 to 130 kph - I have to take a video and see if that is actually true and not just my imagination.

Hope that you are right with the barrier issue. Have you been able to compare the performance of 1st and 2nd generation of Matrix lights?

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[RacingDuck]

No, I bought the J1.2 directly and the loaner one J1.1 I didn't drive at night.

I have a strip of road where the barrier comes up at one point and goes down again and you can see the left side clearly dimming down in the upper part when it switches to barrier mode and afterwards it coming on again.

I can try to get this from my dashcam to illustrate.

 

[W1NGE]

Hope that you are right with the barrier issue. Have you been able to compare the performance of 1st and 2nd generation of Matrix lights?

1st and 2nd generation will be the same unless you mean the HD Matrix - both options are now on offer with the base Matrix (rather than LED) being standard up to and including GTS and then HD Matrix is standard beyond. Special edition "Black Edition" has HD Matrix as standard on any variant where this edition is offered.

I went from Matrix to HD Matrix and the difference is literally night and day but comes at a hefty premium and perhaps not worth it if driving little at night.

 

[Alpha]

If you find matrix impressive, wait until you see it paired with Night View Assist and it detects an animal and strobes high beams at it to try and scare it from walking into the road.

 

[davidh]

No, I bought the J1.2 directly and the loaner one J1.1 I didn't drive at night.

I have a strip of road where the barrier comes up at one point and goes down again and you can see the left side clearly dimming down in the upper part when it switches to barrier mode and afterwards it coming on again.

I can try to get this from my dashcam to illustrate.

Do you think that it actually detects a central barrier and then adapts its behaviour as you describe?

 

[prj]

I have no issues with the central barrier being detected either.

 

[RacingDuck]

My guess is that it is based on navigation data, but I don't know how to verify this.
I'd need a strip of road which was upgraded with a middle barrier which is not part of the data yet.

As you turn on the get off lane (how is this called in English?) it will switch to normal mode again - which I find a bit early, as you often drive for a hundred meters or so in the same direction as before. But until now it didn't seem to bother anyone.

 

[davidh]

My guess is that it is based on navigation data, but I don't know how to verify this.
I'd need a strip of road which was upgraded with a middle barrier which is not part of the data yet.

As you turn on the get off lane (how is this called in English?) it will switch to normal mode again - which I find a bit early, as you often drive for a hundred meters or so in the same direction as before. But until now it didn't seem to bother anyone.

In the UK, it's called the exit slip road. I think that in the USA it's called the off ramp. Good luck with the testing.

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