Our Auto High Beam doesn't seem to turn on high beams anymore after one of the recent updates (haven't been out at night for a while), even on dark country road. Pushing left stalk away doesn't turn them on but only shows greyed out Auto Beam logo, indicating they are on but not available. We can still pull stalk towards us to get them to flash. Obviously we can change setting to non Auto to get around it. Anyone else seen any this?
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Auto High Beam ceased working
- Thread starter evpaddie
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That's something they could potentially fix remotely, so I would log a ticket through the app.
They are auto-dimming, not auto-high beam. You essentially turn on the auto mode, turn on high beams (push the turn signal lever forward to get the logo), and the car will dim them as necessary. If you can see the greyed out Auto logo then they should be ready to go, but may not switch to high beam until they feel like it. If you have the Auto setting turned on but you leave the headlights on low beam they will just stay on low all the time.
Wol747
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Two years in on my S and I still can't work out how the lights work - or even if they do! Same with the mirrors - they too have minds of their own. And don't mention the screen....
I think “until they feel like it“ seems to be not at all on our last trip. The Auto grey symbol was present but lights stayed dipped on dark traffic free road.
"Until they feel like it" is BS.
Auto high beam will not activate from the beginning of a drive until you exceed 45kmh/25mph. No matter how dark it is. There is a speed trigger in there at start of drive presumably to accommodate car parks. Once you have exceed this speed just once in your drive, they will toggle between low and high regardless of speed, depend on darkness and oncoming traffic triggers. You can even come to a standstill and they will remain in high beam. So long as you do not end the drive by selecting park. I live out in the bush and both of our driveways are long and pitch dark at night. To get high beam, I momentarily floor it to get to 45kmh where lights switch to high beam, then I slow right back up to a sensible driveway speed of ~ 20kmh.
@evpaddie if your lights are not going to high beam on your dark road when above 45kmh try rebooting the system. My Auto high beams are working fine with latest updates installed.
Auto high beam will not activate from the beginning of a drive until you exceed 45kmh/25mph. No matter how dark it is. There is a speed trigger in there at start of drive presumably to accommodate car parks. Once you have exceed this speed just once in your drive, they will toggle between low and high regardless of speed, depend on darkness and oncoming traffic triggers. You can even come to a standstill and they will remain in high beam. So long as you do not end the drive by selecting park. I live out in the bush and both of our driveways are long and pitch dark at night. To get high beam, I momentarily floor it to get to 45kmh where lights switch to high beam, then I slow right back up to a sensible driveway speed of ~ 20kmh.
@evpaddie if your lights are not going to high beam on your dark road when above 45kmh try rebooting the system. My Auto high beams are working fine with latest updates installed.
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Maximillan
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Auto high beams are useless in the city as they hardly ever turn on (all good if you disagree), and as Bjorn found can be dangerous out of the city.
Stick to the manual high beams.
Stick to the manual high beams.
I believe that this is deliberate and depends on geolocation. Places where high beam is illegal (most parts of cities), they will not go on. Street lights were out in our suburban street and I could not get high beam to work and was told that the car precludes high beam (dependent upon the nav/map data).
At least, that is what I was told.
...but then, I read this on the NSW Govt web site. Seems THEY allow high beam, even if Tesla does not!
You must turn your headlights from high beam to low beam:
High beam lights
You can use your headlights on high beam if you need to see further ahead, even if there are street lights.You must turn your headlights from high beam to low beam:
- when a vehicle coming towards you is within 200m
- when driving 200m or less behind another vehicle.
Is this speed trigger also for manual high beam? That's what would not work for me on my street. I THINK I was doing 50, but maybe not. I'll have a go early tomorrow morning.
Maximillan
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I haven't had any issue manually turning on the high beams.
The auto high beams rely on vision, therefore if there is a street light on it won't turn on. Useless.
From the manual (which makes no mention of the high beams auto or otherwise being speed dependent)
The auto high beams rely on vision, therefore if there is a street light on it won't turn on. Useless.
From the manual (which makes no mention of the high beams auto or otherwise being speed dependent)
My high beam works great. When I want it my hand pushes the stalk forward, and does the opposite when not required. I can’t be bothered with some programmer in another country deciding I cannot use high beam at low speeds or under certain conditions.
Maximillan
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Like I said the Model 3 Owners Manual made no mention of speed criteria for Auto High Beam that I could find.
Owner manual does not mention many things. Like I said easy to test. Set yourself up in a dark spot in park with Auto HD selected. Drive off and observe that high beams activate at 45kmh. As long as you stay out of park, after this they are no longer speed sensitive for the rest of the drive. The esoteric nature of this is probably why it is not mentioned in the OM.
"Auto High Beam" got turned on for me some months ago by one of the updates. It must have been on for a few months before I realised.
At no point did it ever turn high beam on for me - even driving down Lapstone Hill at 90km/h in the dark.
What id did do was if I manually turned on high beam using the stalk, it would auto-dim the high beam with approaching traffic, of if I was driving through a "slow" area. I don't know if the latter was based on my speed or the speed limit for the area but it was not possible to turn high beam on in those conditions with "Auto High Beam" on.
At no point did it ever turn high beam on for me - even driving down Lapstone Hill at 90km/h in the dark.
What id did do was if I manually turned on high beam using the stalk, it would auto-dim the high beam with approaching traffic, of if I was driving through a "slow" area. I don't know if the latter was based on my speed or the speed limit for the area but it was not possible to turn high beam on in those conditions with "Auto High Beam" on.
Candleflame
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Maximillan
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Slightly off topic, do you have that table so that it include TACC? I'm curious to see what it uses.
