It's ok, twisty roads are a bit of a challenge for it, and some people will flash you anyway, as I guess you may have found.

 

Literally found it by accident in the early hours on a deserted road so no "feed back" from on-coming drivers yet.

 

Works really well on our Ioniq 38kWh. Use it all the time! 👍

 

3 times? Mine just requires you to push the stalk away once to turn it on provided the lights are set to auto.

 

Same - have used it all the time - quicker response than manual control. Very impressed with it.

 

In my Ioniq, you just push the stalk once. In almost all situations, I've found its as quick to switch them off and back on as if doing it manually. Only thing I don't like is it turns off as I turn right on T-junctions, possibly due to glare from road signs as I approach.

 

Again Ioniq, Yes push forwards once turns auto beam on , push forward again turns it off, and auto beam dips if your speed slows to about 25mph hence turning off when turning right

 

Well I don't know about Hyundai but I had this on many of my German ICE cars over the years and it is brilliant feature, you just drive on the motorway without worrying about changing the lights. You should have camera above your rearview mirror (look at the windshield) and that constantly monitoring the incoming traffic lights and doing all the work for you 😁 Here I am assuming that this is the feature on your car...

 

Only one push (or is it pull) and using it since day one. Auto dips.

 

IMO it works very well and wasn’t even listed as an option on the first Kona I had but worked all the same, like you I found by accident as I wasn’t expecting it to be present! It will sometimes dip more often than I would like but it’s very good at not blinding others, or at least I’ve never been flashed to say otherwise.

 

On the UK spec this is what I believe is called High Beam Assist. From the 2018 brochure.

 

On the UK spec this is what I believe is called High Beam Assist. From the 2018 brochure.

I have just the premium edition and so I didn't think I had it. Bonus.

 

The only issue I’ve found is lorry drivers coming over the crest of a hill. The camera is poor at picking up the cab-top beacons and it tends to blind lorry drivers, which can make them quite distressed. And they very often their own miniature sun mounted on the front/top of the cab so I tend to manually kill the high-beam when I spot lorries on the crest of a hill. But that happened on my last two Audi‘s. One of which had matrix headlamps, which are otherwise magical things. Quite incredible How they just bend the main beam out of the way to not avoid people.

 

Always a slight delay with the auto high beam headlights, but been generally impressed with them. Certainly no worse than on my Skoda Octavia which was where I first experienced them...
On another topic of hidden features (unless you read the manual) is the lane assist (or whatever they call the softeare that keeps you in the same lane....) when you have cruise control activated - have been pleasantly surprised with it at keeping the car within the lane on a 20 mile route.

 

I have the lowest-spec edition with candles for headlights yet still have the HBA.

 

Yes candles is how I described mine, truly awful headlights IMO, the LED lights are great.

 

The LED headlamps are supposed to be OK for driving abroad without modification.

 

That’s a very interesting take on white LEDs. The general consensus as far as I’m aware is that white ‘daylight’ LEDs offer major benefits because our eyes are naturally attuned to pick out things illuminated by daylight. The LEDs in car headlamps are designed to emit at 445-475nm. It is a blue light that is emitted by the diode and a phosphor coating makes it emit white light. The lenses on the LED headlamps cause small amounts of blue light to be visible.

The new laser headlamps are even more tightly defined and I believe the Osram laser diodes fitted to BMWs, Audis and Range Rovers is a 460nm emitter and they are staggeringly good to drive with.

So we definitely see better with whiter, more daylight like light.

If it makes the eye more tired then that’s not so good. Having had LEDs on my last 3 cars I wouldn’t go back to halogens now. It was actually the main reason I picked my Kona over the eNiro as at the time the eNiro wasn’t available with LED headlamps.

 

That’s a very interesting take on white LEDs. The general consensus as far as I’m aware is that white ‘daylight’ LEDs offer major benefits because our eyes are naturally attuned to pick out things illuminated by daylight. The LEDs in car headlamps are designed to emit at 445-475nm. It is a blue light that is emitted by the diode and a phosphor coating makes it emit white light. The lenses on the LED headlamps cause small amounts of blue light to be visible.

The new laser headlamps are even more tightly defined and I believe the Osram laser diodes fitted to BMWs, Audis and Range Rovers is a 460nm emitter and they are staggeringly good to drive with.

So we definitely see better with whiter, more daylight like light.

If it makes the eye more tired then that’s not so good. Having had LEDs on my last 3 cars I wouldn’t go back to halogens now. It was actually the main reason I picked my Kona over the eNiro as at the time the eNiro wasn’t available with LED headlamps.

I don't think the idea that the blue content of white LED light can be tiring is particularly new, this abstract from a study published in 2013 indicates the same conclusion :

"This study evaluated the effect of short-wavelength content of headlamps on discomfort glare, in order to provide guidance regarding spectral compositions that would minimize driver complaints. Three light-emitting diode (LED) headlamps were tested (with correlated color temperatures of 4000, 4800, and 6600 K), as well as a tungsten-halogen headlamp and a high-intensity discharge (HID) headlamp. Subjects, seated in a stationary vehicle, rated discomfort from brief presentations of stimuli that produced illuminances of 0.25, 0.5, and 1 lx. As predicted in our previous analytical study, we found that—when they appear bluer than current tungsten-halogen or HID headlamps—LED headlamps tend to produce more discomfort glare. The effect is probably due to the color appearance of the LED lamps used in this study rather than to any inherent characteristic of LED sources, and it could probably be altered or reversed with different sources. For the data reported here, ratings of discomfort glare were linearly related to the amount of short-wavelength content in the light output as weighted by the spectral sensitivity of the short-wavelength cone photoreceptors. Thus, the present study provides support for the hypothesis that the short-wavelength content of the headlamp output could be used heuristically to select colors of headlamps to minimize driver complaints about glare."

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