Prius Head Lights

With the greatest respect, if all this various traffic flashes you when on dipped headlights it is most likely that your lamps are very slightly out of focus. They recognise that you are dipping when they see you drop from main beams, but I'd suspect they were still somewhat dazzled. Maybe even cussing you into the bargain as LEDs are super bright. If it were me I'd either adjust them myself, or better still complain to your dealership and get them to reset them properly. If they decline, take the matter up with Toyota as they weren't correctly aligned in the factory.

We all hate to be dazzled by by oncoming vehicles, so I'm sympathetic to your situation here and wish you luck.

 

There's a long thread on the topic:

Constantly flashed while low beams are on | PriusChat

I believe the cutoff could be adjusted down a little, then you won't be irritating oncoming traffic as much.

 

At what distance & elevation above the ground? This detail is critical.

As distance in front increases, that line should be slightly falling, or level at the very most. If it rises at all, it will glare into the eyes of oncoming drivers. This problem clearly showed in the illumination pattern on a wall posted in another thread several years ago. The cutoff line on the wall was clearly higher than the height of the headlight mounting on the car.

 

maybe you should have also flashed your high beams one time when he was switching off his lights to let him know that your brights are already off? unless the only other way would have to be driving with your lights off or on parking lights whilst following him. I'm guessing in usa you guys don't have the fogs and drls..


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I think we can all conclude that the lights are angled correctly on all the Prii and the headlights are just very bright.

 

How'd you come up with that conclusion? Someone in the thread I linked previously adjusted their lowbeam aim downward and people stopped flashing him as frequently, so another conclusion could be made off of that.

Edit:
I have HIDs installed, which are about 3x brighter than the halogen bulbs it replaced. I ensured that they were aimed properly, and no one has ever flashed me. Even halogen bulbs can be dazzling if they're improperly aimed, take a raised pickup truck with lights shining right at your eyes for example. So it's not the brightness of the light so much as the aim and cutoff that's important when sharing the road with other drivers. Be considerate.

 

Everyone has there own opinion. This topic has been going on since the beginning of the year!

 

There's a thread about the LED headlights on the level 5 gen 3 being aimed too low out of the factory.

It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the gen 4 LEDs are coming out of the factory aimed too high.

 

If they're as bright as everyone says they are, it shouldn't be a problem to see the road at night with dipped beams lowered by one or two degrees. That could make quite a difference for oncoming traffic

Just sayin'...

 

Are you usually getting flashed when you're on a hill and the nose of your car is aimed towards the sky? You can't prevent that from happening and aiming your headlights won't help as the car at the other side of the hill will still be below your beam.

I never understood why people flash their brights at HID\LED headlamps in proper projectors. I would think the factory would aim them within the proper legal height. I have aftermarket HIDs in an aftermarket projector and aimed them within legal limits. I'm actually a little lower than legal, but I'm not going to sacrifice all of my viewing distance.

The only time I flash are when people have HID kits in a halogen reflector. Those are illegal and are blinding 24\7 going over a hill or not.

 

I think a lot of it also has to do with hills or incline/decline. With headlights that bright, others might perceive them as having the high-beams on, but in reality they are just inconveniently placed within the beam due to not being on a level plane. In that case there isn't much you can do.