Mach E headlights

[JoeDimwit]

The Smurfmobile is a FE, and has the LED projector headlights. These headlights should be standard on all vehicles. The amount of light they are capable of throwing is staggering. There are a couple places on my drive home from work every night that the high beams come on, and it’s like the sun came back up to illuminate the road ahead of me.

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[RonOinAZ]

The only regret I have about buying the California Route 1 edition is the reflector headlights and standard audio system. I would have paid for those upgrades without hesitation.

Regardless of IIHS's headlight rating on CA Route 1 and Select trims, how would you compare your MME headlights to headlights in other vehicles you've driven at night?

 

[milepost1]

Not sure why the US and EU ( and rest of world) can not come up with universal standards on cars.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Not sure why the US and EU ( and rest of world) can not come up with universal standards on cars.

The rest of the world has done exactly that. The U.S. is quite far behind in such things. The problem lies with us.

 

[ARK]

The Smurfmobile is a FE, and has the LED projector headlights. These headlights should be standard on all vehicles. The amount of light they are capable of throwing is staggering. There are a couple places on my drive home from work every night that the high beams come on, and it’s like the sun came back up to illuminate the road ahead of me.

It’s too much in my opinion. Before I got my Premium Mach-E I always wondered what those types of headlights were that seemed to be high beams-lite that blinded people on dark or semi-dark roads, now I know. It’s a projector LED.

It’s great for the driver but no so great for other drivers and pedestrians.

And like you said, the actual high beams on these projector LEDs are like the sun came back up. People were sort of unhappy that the Mach-E didn’t have the matrix projector LEDs where the high beams would stay on near other cars but the car would supposedly figure out how to adjust the lamp to not point it to other drivers (good luck to other drivers with that system not getting it wrong much of the time).

My area has semi-dark and dark streets, and the roads are pretty twisty. My honest belief over the years is that I have had a greater number of closer calls with other drivers where their high beams or projector LEDs have momentarily blinded me then me not seeing a pedestrian off to the side of a road on a dark stretch.

 

[jsteach]

We need to legalize adaptive driving beams already, for safety's sake (article)
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/05/19/legalize-adaptive-driving-beams-opinion/

 

[PicassoPC]

Regardless of IIHS's headlight rating on CA Route 1 and Select trims, how would you compare your MME headlights to headlights in other vehicles you've driven at night?

We also have a 2021 Mazda 3 Premium in the household that has adaptive LED lamps - they are better than the Mach-E's. The other cars - 2013 Volt with Bi Xenon are not as bright and the 2019 Fiat 124 with LED reflector setup is very similar. However - all of these cars are significantly cheaper than the Mach-E.

 

[ChasingCoral]

The rest of the world has done exactly that. The U.S. is quite far behind in such things. The problem lies with us.

We can't even go metric!

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

We can't even go metric!

Pfft. What’s wrong with a schizophrenic measuring system for length based upon some 12th century king’s foot, a temperature system basing zero on the freezing point of a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and a weighing system invented by Beezlebub? If it was good enough for 13th century English tribesmen, it’s good enough for us!

Divide by 10, multiply by 10. Next you’ll be claiming Celsius has a scale of 0 to 100 representing the freezing and boiling point of plain ol water! Preposterous I say!

I stand with the international bastions of science when it comes to our measuring system, us, Liberia and Myanmar!

/sarcasm off.

 

[milepost1]

Pfft. What’s wrong with a schizophrenic measuring system for length based upon some 12th century king’s foot, a temperature system basing zero on the freezing point of a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and a weighing system invented by Beezlebub? If it was good enough for 13th century English tribesmen, it’s good enough for us!

Divide by 10, multiply by 10. Next you’ll be claiming Celsius has a scale of 0 to 100 representing the freezing and boiling point of plain ol water! Preposterous I say!

I stand with the international bastions of science when it comes to our measuring system, us, Liberia and Myanmar!

/sarcasm off.

Metric is just to hard!! Says the people of the US

 

[Jimrpa]

Not sure why the US and EU ( and rest of world) can not come up with universal standards on cars.

The US are the ones with the antiquated tea candle in a ball jar headlamp standards. We are pretty much the laughing stock of the third world in that regard (and let’s not discuss what technological wonders first wold countries use for headlamps ?) you can thank many years of (non-partisan) neglect of headlamp standards.

 

[Jimrpa]

Pfft. What’s wrong with a schizophrenic measuring system for length based upon some 12th century king’s foot, a temperature system basing zero on the freezing point of a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and a weighing system invented by Beezlebub? If it was good enough for 13th century English tribesmen, it’s good enough for us!

Divide by 10, multiply by 10. Next you’ll be claiming Celsius has a scale of 0 to 100 representing the freezing and boiling point of plain ol water! Preposterous I say!

I stand with the international bastions of science when it comes to our measuring system, us, Liberia and Myanmar!

/sarcasm off.

Actually, there is a very strong case to be made for using a duodecimal (base 12) counting system, instead of a base 10 counting system, which the metric system is based on. It’s much easier to break things down into portions using a base 12 system than it is using a base 10 system. Try to image a clock that only had 10 hours, or a calendar that only had 10 months. People can quickly and easily grasp a quarter hour and a third of an hour by just glancing at a duodecimal clock. Can’t do that with your fancy French system ?

 

[ARK]

Actually, there is a very strong case to be made for using a duodecimal (base 12) counting system, instead of a base 10 counting system, which the metric system is based on. It’s much easier to break things down into portions using a base 12 system than it is using a base 10 system. Try to image a clock that only had 10 hours, or a calendar that only had 10 months. People can quickly and easily grasp a quarter hour and a third of an hour by just glancing at a duodecimal clock. Can’t do that with your fancy French system ?

A lot of metric units also just aren’t as practical in daily life. Like measuring height, meters are too large, there’s a reason we use feet in the USA instead of yards (which are themselves slightly shorter than meters). Going down one type of measurement, decimeters are basically too small.

Or celsius, effectively 50 to 100 degrees celsius is useless for purposes of describing weather but it’s half the numbers in the 0 to 100 temperature range. And one celsius is too large of a spread, for example, people don’t like Euro imports that have a jerry rigged a/c system where the a/c jumps by two degrees fahrenheit as the minimum adjustment. Fahrenheit might not have a logical base but its 0 to 100 degrees range and amount of change one degree represents is more functional in day to day life.

Basically, the metric system puts too much of a premium on internal logic and not enough on how people actually want to measure things on a day to day basis in my opinion. Example of form over function.

 

[Jimrpa]

A lot of metric units also just aren’t as practical in daily life. Like measuring height, meters are too large, there’s a reason we use feet in the USA instead of yards (which are themselves slightly shorter than meters). Going down one type of measurement, decimeters are basically too small.

Or celsius, effectively 50 to 100 degrees celsius is useless for purposes of describing weather but it’s half the numbers in the 0 to 100 temperature range. And one celsius is too large of a spread, for example, people don’t like Euro imports that have a jerry rigged a/c system where the a/c jumps by two degrees fahrenheit as the minimum adjustment. Fahrenheit might not have a logical base but its 0 to 100 degrees range and amount of change one degree represents is more functional in day to day life.

Basically, the metric system puts too much of a premium on internal logic and not enough on how people actually want to measure things on a day to day basis in my opinion. Example of form over function.

And let’s not forget, for those who whine about imperial units being based on the dimensions on dead British nobility’s body appendiiges, the meter is defined on the extremely rational, simple to understand dimension of the distance light travels in approximately 1/200,000,000 of a second in a “vacuum”. Yeah, right ?

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