{"id":8534,"date":"2019-04-16T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:02:07","slug":"aaa-calls-for-us-headlight-technology-to-be-consistent-with-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/aaa-calls-for-us-headlight-technology-to-be-consistent-with-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA calls for US headlight technology to be consistent with Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European vehicles equipped with adaptive driving beam headlights (ADB) increase roadway lighting by as much as 86 percent when compared to U.S. low beam headlights, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.aaa.com\/2019\/04\/research-european-headlight-technology-us-low-beam-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AAA (opens in a new tab)\">AAA<\/a>. Now, AAA is supporting calls for changes in U.S. law which currently prohibits this technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving at night carries the highest\nfatality rate for both drivers and pedestrians. European AAA believes the\ntechnology currently used in Europe is the first real solution to providing\nmore light for drivers at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDriving at night doesn\u2019t have to be such a\nrisky undertaking for Americans,\u201d said John Nielsen, Managing Director of\nAutomotive Engineering and Repair, AAA. \u201cThe technology not only exists but is\nbeing used in other parts of the world to effectively provide the amount of\nlight needed to keep drivers and pedestrians safer.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous AAA research found that a majority\nof Americans (64 percent) do not regularly use their high beams. This means\nwhen driving at moderate speeds like 40 mph with low beams on, motorists would\nnot have enough time to react to a hazard in the roadway. High beams improve\nforward illumination by 28 percent in comparison and are more effective at\nproviding the correct amount of light when traveling at higher speeds. With\nADB, the high beams are always on and when another vehicle is detected, that\narea is shaded to prevent glare that would otherwise interfere with the other\ndriver\u2019s field of vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some newer U.S. vehicles are equipped\nwith a similar technology that automatically switches between high and low\nbeam, this only works when other vehicles aren\u2019t present. Once an oncoming or\npreceding vehicle is detected, the car will switch from high to low beams, therefore\nlosing the benefit of the additional light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a petition from Toyota, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed an amendment last fall to allow manufacturers the option of equipping vehicles with ADB systems. AAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=NHTSA-2018-0090-0158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">submitted comments<\/a> to NHTSA regarding the proposed changes along with supporting primary research in an effort to provide insight into the performance of ADB as it exists today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAAA supports adaptive driving beam\nheadlights and NHTSA\u2019s work in this area to consider changing the current\nstandards,\u201d said Jill Ingrassia, managing director of Government Relations\n&amp;Traffic Safety Advocacy. \u201cAllowing ADB will not only improve roadway\nvisibility but the safety of every driver and pedestrian who must travel at\nnight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European vehicles equipped with adaptive driving beam headlights (ADB) increase roadway lighting by as much as 86 percent when compared to U.S. low beam headlights, according to AAA. Now, AAA is supporting calls for changes in U.S. law which currently prohibits this technology. Driving at night carries the highest fatality rate for both drivers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}