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Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?
The US is a bit of a backwater for automotive lighting technology.
From the 1960s, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards allowed for only sealed high- and low-beam headlamps, and as a result, automakers like Mercedes-Benz would sell cars with less capable lighting in North America than it offered to European customers. Although this was by now an established technology with European, Chinese, and Society of Automobile Engineers standards, NHTSA wanted something different enough that an entirely new testing regime was necessary to satisfy it so that these new-fangled lights wouldn't dazzle anyone else. In 2014 he decided to indulge his lifelong passion for the car by leaving the National Human Genome Research Institute and launching Ars Technica's automotive coverage.
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