New headlights are a major problem

The gen. 3 allready has a very good LED heaclights,but as it sounds gen 4. has even better !
Great !
My gen 3. headlight had a too low factory setting .

 

ABC news did a report on how bright and safe the lights are. I think they are just better and brighter lights and the aim is fine. Noticed that while driving how much better they were. I leave mine on auto dim so everyone knows my lights are not on bright.

 

Actually, the report was about the 2012 Prius V wagon's headlights. Not unrelated, but the GenIV is a different animal. Good to know, though, that the IV's headlights are being talked about by PC'ers as brighter than on their previous models. More than one thread currently about how other drivers seem bothered. Most likely some re-aiming is necessary.

 

Do all 2016 Prius have LED lights and are they similar to the tested model? Or better?

 

It's a different vehicle, so even if it's the same light (it's not), IIHS's results will not apply.

And, IIHS's results were based on the aim as delivered, not properly adjusted, so they're only applicable to the specific cars that they tested, not the model in general. It would've been nice to see their results on a retest with properly aimed lights.

 

Actually is was the 2016 Prius 'v' wagon (still Gen3). They tested only 2016 models.

Note also that the highly rated lights were just the LED version on the Advanced Technology package. Without ATP (i.e no automatic switching between High and Low beams), it rated one notch lower. Without LEDs (i.e. just the standard halogen projectors), it rated three notches lower at Poor, along with many other cars.

The IIHS news releases:
First-ever IIHS headlight ratings show most need improvement
In the dark __ New ratings show most headlights need improvement

2016 Toyota Prius v -- headlight rating page

 

Seriously? They down-rate headlights if you need to turn the high beams on and off all by yourself? To be honest, when driving under such conditions, I think it's better if you're maintaining a high enough state of alertness to turn the beans off and on by yourself.

 

Not exactly. They award extra points to some systems that do it automatically:

The basis for their reasoning is expressed in this sidebar:
Few drivers use their high beams, study finds

 

Mr Rogers quote "I like my lights just the way they are"

 

The lights can be adjusted to point more downward.

 

Thanks so much for sharing this info!!

 

I was going to say this, but now I'll second it, you can turn off the dlr's but keep the "running-parking" lights on for daytime use, yes the lights work great, possibly a little to great, user discretion allowed, the lights on my '06 were terrible, my '11 not bad, the '16, great.

 

It is the same light. The 2016 Liftback uses the same Koito Bi-LED projector as the Prius C 2015+ and Prius v "Five" 2016+. The Retrofit Source occasionally has them on closeout; I expect to see them more often, as well as come down in price, as newer Priuses start getting wrecked. They were introduced first on the non-US Prius v:

"KOITO will promote this newly-developed, single-LED, bi-functional projector as its standard LED unit. Starting with delivery for the Toyota Motor Corporation Prius ɑ model (in the market in November 2014*) , KOITO will roll out the product worldwide.

*This single-LED, bi-functional projector headlamp is referred to as :"Bi-beam LED headlamps" at Toyota Motor Corporation"

 

But even if the projector unit is the same, the fixture it's installed in may be different, no?

 

The fixture is just aesthetic, it doesn't affect the beam. The LED, shield, and projector bowl are a self-contained unit.

 

Don't the new corolla have same LED ?

LG-H901 ?

 

How come the Gen4 doesn't have parking lights? Maybe it does, but the LED lights are still on.

When I'm at a red light, and there's a car in front of me, my LED lights reflecting off that car blind me! I would like to dim my lights by putting on the parking lights... But there is no parking lights!

 

Thanks, Tideland. In every other car I had, when you switch on the "parking lights" all you see is the amber or yellow lights.

But in the Prius, the bright white LED light stays on. It may dim a little, but it's still on. I don't understand that part. I guess they don't want people driving around with just yellow lights on. (Can't take a Prius to an outdoor Drive-in movie. You'd blind people. )