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I was hoping this would be a polarizing filter or modification to standard headlights. While cool, it's unfortunately an entire electronics system dedicated to
by xxbondsxx 14y ago
I was hoping this would be a polarizing filter or modification to standard headlights.
While cool, it's unfortunately an entire electronics system dedicated to the situation. The last thing I want is a frozen sensor detecting the entire road was 'rain' and shutting off my headlights.
- rhizome 14y agoI'm thinking they'll probably include a fail-safe of some kind.
- JWLong 14y agoYeah... most everything on the wiring harness goes back to a computer, these days... and modern ECUs will ignore data that doesn't fall within expected parameters.
- gfodor 14y agoIf you can think of this concern in 8 seconds or so, I assume automotive engineers can too.
- ww520 14y agoManual override?
- Dinoguy1000 14y agoIt falls back to current behavior of just having the headlights on in the case of an error like that. There was another article on these a week or two ago on a different website that specifically mentioned something like that.