Glare Free Headlights - Use Case

[HornetRaider]

Hi everyone. First time poster and long time lurker. Thank you for all of the information and tips. I've lurked on this forum and reddit for close to 2 years and bought my 2023 Lariat 511a sight unseen without test driving based on feedback and you all were right. I came from a heavily modded cts v (built motor, heads, cam) as a daily driver to this and it has been a welcomed change.

Last night I enabled glare free headlights through Forscan. I was wondering what the use case is for this feature. Is this better suited for folks out in rural areas with dimly lit roads? I'm wondering if city drivers like myself benefit more from auto high beams vs glare free. I have to admit I am not really noticing any difference. In fact, it's less useful (so far) than the auto high beams were in my neighborhood. Those would kick on and illuminate the whole street if it was empty. Now that feature doesn't happen. I also noticed that the high beam blue icon would come on for auto high beam. With glare free, I have the green "A" in the dash and the feature enabled in vehicle settings, but I have not been able to tell a difference so far.

Nice to be here and look forward to learning more.

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[Athrun88]

Welcome to the community!

Glare free is being able to selectively luminate the road with your high beams without blinding oncoming traffic. Benefit is that the system will keep your high beams on, giving you better overall visibility, while not bothering any oncoming vehicles. I would say it is more benefit for rural drivers than urban since there are little to no street lights. For glare free to activate, I believe you have to be travelling above a certain speed and below a certain light level.

I do most of my driving in rural areas and I enjoy glare free as it'll keep my side of the road lit up but dim the oncoming lane if a vehicle is detected.

 

[Runaway Tractor]

Rural use is fabulous. The truck has really good bright lights with a really great beam spread. The glare free mode lets all that awesome light stay on lighting up the surrounding without blinding the vehicle ahead of me.

Yes in a city environment with street lights and building lights, it is basically useless since it locks to low beam. You can override it to manual if you want in that circumstance though.

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