How do you use your headlights?

I don't have much awareness about the issue, however I have a habit of manually turning mine on / off.

 

Gen4 has LED lights and headlights standard. LED don't break. Their electronics can. But extremely unlikely. They are known to be a very reliable extremely efficient and long lasting technology.
In the same way I have never heard or seen a rear LED light in a Prius go bad, since it is essentially the same technology, there is no reason the front headlight will ever fail the lifetime of the vehicle.
I have to keep them in AUTO because there is no OFF in the EU version

 

Are you talking about Halogen or HID? I have HIDs on my 2009 Gen II (touring) and only use them when the driving conditions dictate (night, dusk, rain, fog, underground (tunnel, parking-garage)). I love my HIDs, better colour, pattern, more efficient than the old halogens, and far better than the pre-historic tungsten lamps (…are those still available, I wonder?) - Wil

 

I've always kept my lights on auto. I have yet to drive my Prius at night though. I understand that LED lamps last a very long time. I think that just about everything else in the car has a higher potential of failure.

 

Yes, the lights should last the life of the car - but TOYOTA has also said that they've worked on the entire car trying for continual improvements. Hopefully, it will last a long time. Prius, in all it's previous forms has been one of the most reliable cars on the planet.

THE NEW TOYOTA PRIUSTHE REBIRTH OF THE PIONEER

 

I rotate the light stalk switch to Auto/DRL when I enter the car. That's when the Daytime Running Lights come on.
When I exit the car, I rotate the switch back to Off.
I never leave anything in "Auto" mode.
I'm confident the LED lights will out-live ME.

 

We would not last long together - and it's not just your ears! I find that auto settings - lights, air-conditioner, gears, folding mirrors, etc - work well for me.

 

I just like to control everything manually. Lights, wipers, high-beams, AC, etc.
Otherwise, big Shrek will start snoring and the little woman will smack me.

And I absolutely hate the "artificial" feel of the cruise control. I tried it a couple days ago, and I turned it off after only a few seconds. I've never used it in any of my cars. I need to feel like I am driving the car. Give my old brain a little stimulation!

 

I love all the AUTO stuff - except the gearbox. I hanker for a 6 speed Manual again!! That makes you feel like you're really in control. OK - so Hybrid Synergy Drive can only be Auto.

 

As pakitt said above, in the EU version there is no headlight OFF setting at all - so AUTO it has to be - slightly surprised me when I first got the car, but now it doesn't bother me.

 

FWIW I leave the headlight switch in the AUTO position with our 2016 Prius v Three...

 

Auto-everything for me and cruise control any chance I get

 

The Two does not have auto DRL. But I do keep mine "ON" at all times. It is a good safety feature to have, IMHO.

 

My work car is a 2010 Prius, and it isn't as advanced as my GMCs are in the lighting department, so there is no auto option.
I'm glad that they fixed that because I see a lot of G2 and G3 Priuses motoring along when it's raining and after sundown sans headlights.

For the last 105,000 miles I've mostly just left my lights ON.
30 seconds after I park they automatically go off (Toyota at least got that part right.)
I have to check them whenever somebody else drives the car, but I'm a set it, and forget it type of person.
I've replaced 2 headlamps in 105,000 miles but since halogen bulbs are a lot cheaper than fender and body shop work I figure that my beloved company is money ahead, and besides I think that I remember that they want me to have my lights on all of the time anyway.

Whenever I drive a vehicle with automatic headlamps, I use them.

IHMO there is no reason not to.

YMMV

 

You're just control freak aren't you CC whatever you do don't buy a self driving vehicle

 

Here in California, if it rains, the lights must be on. The auto setting does that for me. I'm too absent minded to remember to do it.

 

Oh no, never a "self driver." I just dont trust the technology.