Here's what sets the first-ever 4Runner Trailhunter, a turnkey overlanding SUV, apart from its compatriots. T he new 2025 ...

We’ve been chronicling the build of our 1976 Chevy K5 Blazer over the past couple issues, and the process continues this month as the crew at Two Guys Restorations in North Adams, Massachusetts begins ...

A pertinent example of this today is cars' headlights. Up until a decade ago, we only had high and low beams. But with the advent of LED technology especially, automakers can employ new systems ...

low-beam, and nothing in between. Since then, a 2022 rule change allowed for "Adaptive Driving Beam" (ADB) headlights theoretically but adopted a testing method that differed from the SAE-approved ...

Modern cars have a nifty feature called 'automatic high beams' which detects oncoming headlights and dips the lights to avoid blinding oncoming drivers. But what about cars that don't offer that ...

Ohio’s law regarding headlights requires a car’s high beams to be bright enough to reveal a person or vehicle at least 350 feet away, and a car’s low beam headlights to be bright enough to ...

Beam pattern: Instead of a single filament for each low and high beam, LED headlights use an array of multiple diodes that can be individually directed. “A good beam pattern is one that gives ...

That makes sense. You can outdrive your low-beam headlights at surprisingly low speeds. Even high beams aren’t as effective at illuminating our path as we might hope. How ineffective?

Another important lesson: knowing when to use your high and low beam headlights at night. There is a safe way to use your high beams for better visibility, without blinding other drivers.

Having a headlight out is an obvious equipment issue ... “Except as hereinafter provided, the headlamps, the auxiliary low-beam lamps, or the auxiliary driving lamps, or combinations thereof, on motor ...

What most cars do have, however, are fog lights (or fog lamps as they're sometimes called), which many Americans use to colloquially refer to high beams. That's not what fog lights are ...