The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be permitting automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights, or “smart headlights,” on new vehicles, almost 10 years after Toyota petitioned the agency to allow the technology.
“The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a final rule today allowing automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights on new vehicles. This satisfies a requirement in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law more than a year and a half ahead of schedule,” the NHTSA said in its announcement.
Adaptive driving beam headlights work by automatically adjusting beams so that oncoming drivers aren’t affected by the glare. This decision will potentially reduce the incidence of crashes and improve safety for pedestrians and bikers by making them more visible at night.
These “smart headlights” have been in use in Europe for over a decade and are also used in countries like Japan and Canada.
As Reuters noted, this decision was made in response to a petition filed by Toyota in 2013. Both Volkswagen AG and BMW AG also filed petitions to allow the headlights to be used in the U.S.
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