Next Generation Headlights?

[DDotJ]

Umm, I don't have much to compare this to, so I could be way off, but do those Next Gen back headrests look shorter than the standard Next Gen back headrests? Or are they actually 1.5 seats perhaps? Or even the original seats with lower headrests? It's hard to tell from the picture.

It's odd. The front seats are next gen, but the rear seats have the old headrests. Even my Model S 56440, delivered in November (with standard seats) has the new taller rear headrest design.

This is definitely a not a customer vehicle with a headlight retrofit. The Next-Gen seats in the P85D were never manufactured with vehicles having the old rear seat headrests.

 

[sitter_k]

What color is that front seat? Looks white/cream?

How can that be white/cream? It's clearly Blue /black.

 

[llavalle]

How can that be white/cream? It's clearly Blue /black.

Troll Reference

 

[andrewket]

How can that be white/cream? It's clearly Blue /black.

Funny.

 

[sickfox]

it's going to be HELLLLA bright when you turn on the AUTO HIGH BEAM!

 

[TEG]

Prototype LED headlights?

I just noticed this on a Tesla Sweden club page:
Nya strålkastare? - Tesla Club Sweden

Translated:

New headlamp?
By Tibor Flower Pour | March 2, 2015 | Tesla


It has seen a Tesla Model S with new headlights off Tesla Motors development center. The car had "dealer plates", that is owned by Tesla Motors, seats with two different colors of the leather, etc. Clearly a car that is used to test new solutions, new components.

The new headlamps seem to be of the LED model, unlike today's Model S with traditional lamps. When everything else is so fashionable in the car, it was actually a little strange that the car's headlights have been so traditional to date.

The prototypes we've seen of the Model X had taped headlights - a sign that the news is to be expected there. It might be so that the Model X comes with LED headlights, and that the Model S is also allowed to take part of the news.

We wonder, however, why the Tesla do not skip the LED headlights, which frankly getting a bit yesterday's news, and goes directly and invests in laser headlights that is new and hot?
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[RAW84]

It's being discussed here: Next Generation Headlights?

 

[BerTX]

Not legal in the US, AFAIK, so not likely to be on a US-made car?

 

[TEG]

Not legal in the US, AFAIK, so not likely to be on a US-made car?

Note, some cars in USA do have LED headlights... Like Nissan LEAF for instance.

 

[AmpedRealtor]

Not legal in the US, AFAIK, so not likely to be on a US-made car?

LED headlights are absolutely legal in the US. Laser headlights are not.

 

[nixnexus]

love how they took the first image and reversed it horizontally.

 

[AudubonB]

The more I look at the OP photos, the more it looks as though those smaller lights move on tracks. Do any cars' lights do that? I can't think how that could affect anything, unless the cover screen functioned as a lens, in which case a bulb's "bright spot" could be altered nearer or farther as a situation demanded. And those photos' cover screen looks fairly standard.

Regardless, they still look focusable.....

 

[biciklanto]

The more I look at the OP photos, the more it looks as though those smaller lights move on tracks. Do any cars' lights do that? I can't think how that could affect anything, unless the cover screen functioned as a lens, in which case a bulb's "bright spot" could be altered nearer or farther as a situation demanded. And those photos' cover screen looks fairly standard.

Regardless, they still look focusable.....

I hope that they are. Lighting makes such a huge difference all around, especially when you're doing 180 km/h on an empty freeway at night.

 

[AudubonB]

I hope that they are. Lighting makes such a huge difference all around, especially when you're doing 180 km/h on an almost:scared: empty freeway at night.

Fixed it for ya.

 

[biciklanto]

Fixed it for ya.

True, German roads are rarely empty. But when I make it up north there are places where I've gone ten minutes or more without seeing another car going my direction. There are also roads down south like Ulm-Füssen where one can go flat-out the entire route. There aren't many things that can touch how great that is.

 

[AudubonB]

Heh heh. I was referring to that seemingly-empty stretch of road....that, when you have better illumination, shows the 700kg moose or those five skittish caribou that make you very, very happy you were able to see them in time.

 

[R.S]

Is it just me, or maybe the camera angle, but the car in the middle looks smaller? Can that be? Did it look smaller in real life?

 

[Hybris]

Wow... So ugly!!!

 

[droper]

would you wait for the new headlights? Here in Germany the xenon headlights are less bright then in the US because of legal reasons.. Now I don't know if I should wait to place my order or not..

 

[llavalle]

While on the subject. Does anyone knows if Tesla has a different headlight model for DOT and E-Code?

E-Code (Europe) Headlight are legal here in Canada and the cutoff beam on the low-beam is a lot more useful. I swapped them out on my previous car (Dot->ECode).