Tesla to soon rollout adaptive headlights for US customers

Tesla Vice President for Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy said adaptive headlights or high beams for existing Tesla owners in the US is coming soon.

Adaptive high beam uses matrix headlights to automatically switch from high to low beam when oncoming traffic is detected. This move reduces beam collision and glare to improve night driving.

In terms of hardware, a matrix LED headlight is equipped with individually addressable and controllable LEDs controlled by the electronic control unit and traffic detection device. This tech can dim the LEDs on the incoming lane to reduce light collision while the current lane beam is enabled.

Earlier this year, Tesla released this new adaptive high beam feature in Europe and other markets.

In June, the EV maker released the 2024.20 software update for owners in the US with numerous new features including auto high beam with curve adapt.

This feature enables the headlight to follow the direction of the steering wheel and move headlights in the same direction to increase visibility around corners and bends. It means, that US car owners only support auto high mean and headlights for curves up ahead on the road. The rest of the time it would not work the same as it does for all other regions.

The reason for the delay is probably the road and safety regulations and Tesla will have to complete the paperwork with related authorities to rollout full adaptive high beam controls for customers.

Meanwhile, Moravy only said “Almost there” to reply that it doesn’t matter. There’s no speculative date on this matter but it may arrive within one or two months.