“TESLA” in headlights

[MrFusion]

Anybody know how the Tesla wording gets added to the headlights for the light show? You can actually see the wording in the lens during the show but it’s not there during normal operation. Seems like this feature has been in the car just for whenever they decided to enable it.

 

[mal_tsla]

It has matrix headlights. It can make any pattern not just the word Tesla.

 

[MrFusion]

It has matrix headlights. It can make any pattern not just the word Tesla.

So is this just the only use for it right now due to US regulations?

 

[Bikeman]

Last I read it will be (maybe) 2023 before matrix headlights will be legally able to operate and do what they're designed to do in the U.S. But with you know who running NHTSA, and hating all that is Tesla, who really knows.

 

[MrFusion]

I wonder if it automatically goes into this TESLA pattern for the light show or if there’s some way to control it via Xlights to make your own patterns for light shows.

 

[DBeckwith]

Anybody know how the Tesla wording gets added to the headlights for the light show? You can actually see the wording in the lens during the show but it’s not there during normal operation. Seems like this feature has been in the car just for whenever they decided to enable it.

No, the matrix lights are not yet supported. The three channel lights on S and X are supported, however.

 

[eesmjus]

If anyone is wondering with old headlights. Service center will not retrofit new headlights. I asked many times.

 

[DBeckwith]

No, the matrix lights are not yet supported. The three channel lights on S and X are supported, however.

I guess I eat my words:

The sequence documentation does not mention this and I didn't have matrix lights to test.

 

[MrFusion]

I guess I eat my words:

The sequence documentation does not mention this and I didn't have matrix lights to test.

Ha, yeah the only reason I was asking is because my 3 does it

 

[Quagmire2]

Last I read it will be (maybe) 2023 before matrix headlights will be legally able to operate and do what they're designed to do in the U.S. But with you know who running NHTSA, and hating all that is Tesla, who really knows.

Tesla isn’t the only automaker to use Matrix LED’s…..

Even if the admin really did have it out for Tesla, they wouldn’t hold back a change in headlight regulations that would also benefit other manufacturers just to mess with Tesla.

 

[DBeckwith]

Ha, yeah the only reason I was asking is because my 3 does it

The sequencing model does not yet expose the matrix pixels. However, it is real easy to manipulate matrices in xlights when Tesla does. I can see spelling 'happy bday' or such when they do.

 

[ClaytonW]

Matrix headlights are now legal here in the USA (part of the Infrastructure Bill). Just some final regulations have to be finalized. I am not quite sure how long it can take. But I would bet, that Teslas will be the first cars using matrix headlights on the US roads. See more here:

Adaptive Headlights Will Finally Come to the US, Thanks to the Infrastructure Bill

That means they won't have to be blindingly bright just so drivers can see at night.

www.thedrive.com

 

[MP3Mike]

Matrix headlights are now legal here in the USA (part of the Infrastructure Bill).

Nope. The bill just ordered them to update the FMVSS sometime in the next 2 years to make them legal.

 

[Bikeman]

Yes, the matrix headlights are legal. It is the full functionality of the matrix design that isn't yet legal.

 

[ClaytonW]

Nope. The bill just ordered them to update the FMVSS sometime in the next 2 years to make them legal.

Yes, I agree. But they have to do it and I hope that it won't take two years. It's a big difference. I use them when I drive in Europe and really miss them here in the USA.

 

[Chandan B]

The sequencing model does not yet expose the matrix pixels. However, it is real easy to manipulate matrices in xlights when Tesla does. I can see spelling 'happy bday' or such when they do.

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