My auto high beam don't behave like that at all! Now I don't do allot of night driving but when mornings and nights are dark if I can see the taillights in front of me the Bronco won't switch to high beams, now if they round a curve then it'll switch over and then back immediately once the taillights are visible. I think it's a pretty good system, never had it bounce back and forth on the highway or interstate where anyone would think I'm flashing them much less be intoxicated!
I hate the Auto Start-Stop. I got one of these, deletes. You no longer have to turn it off when you start it. A bit of a pain to install because you have to remove some of the console to get at the plug. Took about 20 minutes but so worth it.
Without a doubt, I still find it silly for that to be a reason.
They seem too sensitive, like in this case I was driving down a two lane rural/suburban road with a bike lane on either side and one street lamp in view and they came on and off three times in what would be about a block. The only thing I could guess is that it thought the 2 or 3 side of the road reflectors were headlights?
What? It's not a stupid federal nor state law. Just a tech feature.
It was a new explorer he pulled me over in, however I doubt the interceptors would have it.Around here both the county and city cops drive Explorers, I would think they have auto lights as well, not new tech anymore. Sounds like it's one of those things where they have nothing better to do at 2am and you just happen along.
I am not saying he hadn't had prior experience, just that it is a silly reason for reasonable suspicion.
Do they?
1. that's a terrible and unconstitutional "policy."
The first time it happened in my Bronco it surprised but then I realized what it was and it's fine. Except the thresholds make no sense to me. They will click on for half a second and then off and there is no way the sensor was seeing less than I was a lot. And it often just won't come on when it would make perfect sense to.
I have the signature LED's on my 21 as well, and I it sure doesn't look like they fade on slowly.
Ya know that's funny, and I will go on a tangent here real quick. I was on my two week R&R back in 2004 with a couple buddies and we went on a multi state baseball tour and in Massachusetts I was driving my Terminator. A car came up real fast into my rear view at like 1 to 3 in the morning. It was right on my bumper, I moved over to the other lane but they just kept pasted there. I said f'it and just dumped and moved. The car faded and faded and then came up a little bit. Eventually I did slow down as I had no idea what the roads were like and the car came up and passed up and flashed the cherries and berries when he was next to us and just took off and got off at the next exit. It was MA Statie. I thought for sure I was screwed but I guess he was bored. I had no markings on my car he could have seen.
Dunno what to tell you, go re-read the post. It's pretty evident what was said in the post and no one else seemed confused.
Don't leave us hanging, sounds like a good story.
That and frequent lane changes will always get a cop's attention. Especially at 2am. I learned that 50 years ago when in the Navy. At US Navy invitation, CHP officers would board ships in Hawaii that were returning from Vietnam. They'd ride us back to California. They'd give safe driving lectures. They always told us that frequently changing lanes would invite unwelcome attention. It's just one indication of a potentially impaired driver.
You can turn them off in the settings. I thought my Base didn't have them either, but apparently I turned them off (and a bunch of other automajical BS like hill start assist) before I ever left the dealership lot.
The auto-high beams on my Bronco definitely rise up to high beam and fall back to low beam. It does it so well that I didn't realize the Bronco was activating high beams at first. Then I paid attention and saw that gradual increase in brightness rather than the instant flash.
I like mine a lot. When I lifted it and the windshield cam was out of calibration it disabled them and it just reinforced how much I liked them.
It’s my understanding that the fade from dim to bright is a setting that in earlier Broncos (pre 2023?) is set to off. In those models, the brights are either on or off (no fading transition). Forscan does allow you to change this behavior, however.
My 2022 has fade up from low to high, then no fade from high to low beam (signature lighting)
