Ty
Elio Addict
The bright light setting has gotten to be almost completely useless these days. I know there are some who live far out but growing up, I remember being able to drive up 42 Hwy with the brights on. Not any more though. Things have just gotten too crowded. Some day, there will be a vehicle without brights as you think of them now.I drive home from work at night on a 20 mile stretch of winding mountain 2 lane narrow road. I would love to see the Elio have an addon that makes the headlights automatically switch from high to low with the presence of oncoming traffic as they describe in the video. Having to keep my hand on the signal/dimmer switch for the whole trip makes me drive with one hand which is not as safe. The floor mounted dimmer switch was much safer.
Bright lights were needed because the lights of the time were so dim. Now, that isn't the case. my dim lights are brighter and see farther than my old brights ('65 Mustang that I had in the late 80's) were.
The time is approaching where manufacturers no longer have to compromise with headlights designed to be kind of good at dim and kind of good at bright. They'll just design the best headlights that work great at one setting. Perhaps instead of traditional brights, they'll have wide-spread "standard lights" that show more of the road sides... You know - where the deer are.