Just another channel with cat videos and some other random stuff :) My 2 Cats: Lilla: Female, born at an unknown time in the summer of 2014, adopted her in December 2014. Trold: Male, born in April 2016, adopted him in July 2016.
I have a Tesla model 3 2024, and as you may or may not know they have a referral system that gives the person who gives referral credits to buy things from them like free supercharging etc and the person who buys get something(it changes), so If you want to buy a Tesla or just book a test drive, you are more than welcome to use my referral link, ts.la/bjarke141104
I don't know anyone personally who can buy a Tesla, that's why I've posted the link here on my little channel, even though it's probably very very unlikely that anyone reading this is about to buy a Tesla or book a test drive, but I'll try anyway, if it should happen that you, who are reading this, use the link, thank you very much :)
Danke und für Ihren Kommentar :) Ich bin nicht ganz sicher, ich verstehe Ihre Frage, es kann falsch übersetzt werden. Aber wenn ich es verstanden habe, nein, es ist nicht die gleiche Hardware in den Lichtern, Modell 3 von Modelljahr 2021 bis 2023, hat Projekte (DE-Objektiv), die in Zusammenarbeit mit Hella gemacht werden sollte, HIghland hat eine einfachere Licht ohne Projekte (DE-Objektiv) Ich habe keine Informationen, wenn diese auch zusammen mit Halla gemacht werden. Ich spreche kein Deutsch, dies ist mit deepl.com übersetzt, mit den Einschränkungen, die das mit sich bringt.
FYI uploaded a video showing how it works with Lazer linear elite 18 on the M3 highland: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tA693IXWq2Y.html
Exposure adjustments are misleading as 2024 car seems to have brighter headlights. From someone who has had both - they really are not. 2024 high beam is terrible compared to the 2021 ones. 2024 headlights would never allow driver to spot animals on/off road. 2021 headlights would.
It was recorded on the same phone with the same settings. The Highlands light is directed more towards the ground than in the old 3, I guess that's why it looks brighter in the clips I made. I agree with you that in most cases the Highland's high beam is worse than the old 3.
NHTSA will never allow fully adaptive European style headlights in the United States. Very sad fully adaptive headlights have been around in Europe for more than 10 years now. all that is permitted in the United States is automatic high low beam and turning headlights, and these have been around for more than 30 years in the USA
Thanks for your comment :) I never quite understood why it's not legal in the US, it provides more/better light on the road and if it works properly, dazzles other drivers less.
The design of the new headlight is marvelous, it has by fat the most segments among all the matrix headlights which do not have a lens in the highbeam section.
Thanks for your commentary :) I do not think there is anything physically moving in the headlight, as for example on the old Golf 6 with xenon that I have previously had, without being sure, I think they have made the turning effect using the matrix part in the headlights. Have not noticed that the light turns with high beam on, only with low beam. Has a 33 sec clip here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bZF5IHPadpc.html showing the effect of it with low beam :)
Thanks for your comment :) I have the same experience as you, this one seems a bit worse than 2024.20.9 when it comes to recognising other cars at long distance. It is also the first time since 2024.20.6.2 that another car has flashed at me.
@@CatsAndRandomStuff Thanks for the super fast reply! Amazing! I thought it would be better but apparently it's worse ahaha. Im still stuck at .20.9. We'll see when I get the new one. with the current one I get flashed like 10 times in a 30 minute drive 😅
Np :) Haven't experienced it as bad as you, have driven about 1.5 hours in the dark with this update and I have only been flashed once, but have noticed times when it didn't dim the lights fast enough IMO, but the other driver didn't flash. They have definitely done something to the way the car "sees" the world in this update, have had significantly more phantom braking against oncoming cars on roads without a central reservation with this than I have had in a long time. But fortunately, it won't be long before the next update comes, where it might be better, we never know what they change in the background :)
Thank you, and thanks for the comment :) I don't think there are any significant differences in most updates, but this type of video gets a fair amount of views and with a good watch time, for my small channel, so my conclusion is that people find it interesting, and I keep making them :)
Was the camera exposure the same on both clips? If so 2021 headlights seem to illuminate trees and higher objects better whereas Highland is brighter on the road surface and very low. Makes me wonder if the lights were properly aligned as Tesla is notorious for factory misaligned headlamps. Whenever a car is blinding me it is usually a Tesla... Great content btw.
Thanks for your comment :) I actually don't know if they are shot with the same exposure. Both clips are shot on the same Pixel 7 and I haven't changed the camera settings, but I don't know if the phone changes exposure automatically. I agree with you that there are a lot of Tesla's driving around with incorrectly set headlights, and on the difference between the new and old. Don't know if they have changed their settings to try to get rid of the problem, the only time someone has flashed me in the new one is the few times when the maxtrix part has not been fast enough, in the old one I have experienced a number of times being flashed without having high beam on, and the car had been for inspection before it was registered in Denmark, as it was imported from Germany, so the lights should have been set correctly.
Here's a flavour of where Audi got to 3 years ago with this tech...they even have lane projection ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hDJi240E_ZA.html
The new headlights do seem brighter, and there's no more 'lines' in the highbeam. I upgraded from a 2019 Model 3 with no matrix or 'kick up' on the beam so going to a 2024 Model 3 was a hugeeeeee jump for me.
Wish they would get them more like Vw and Audi where it dims around objects, selectively highlights signs and animals in the road, dims around cars in front of you, etc
@@CatsAndRandomStuff I know one of the advantages of Tesla. Vw and Audi even if the next year has the same hardware and enables new features they won’t so much as add the software to the previous year.
I suppose the top vidéo is from a newer model that have no front fog light but have an improved lower spread The bottom frame is from an older but without fog light on, i ll be curious to compare with front fog light on :)
Why? Havent tried foglights on M3. But on all other cars they illuminate about enough to see what you hit, not to be able to avoid it.. Other than that, they blind oncoming trafic and makes you see shorter. To see far you need more light far ahead, and less right infront of your car, the light right infront (foglights) just blinds you as well.
@@therandomtester9561 Sorry my sentence may have been not that clear, let me add context and rephrase my sentence For conext : - fog light can provide more safety during poor visibility ; - the refreshed M3 has no more front fog light ; > no matter premium or not ; > what we can see on the top video is that the spread is large, we have a good visibility on sides ; => i suppose that by default the side visibility is improved for mitigate the lack of front fog light, hence i would appreciate to compare the new M3 and the old + front fog light. To go forward, i ll appreciate a video of the different light spreading over differents situations and distances and why not a draw with the ground aera for each light source and also how high and far the light source can illuminate
and a side note, some auto maker implemented a behaviour i think is good : While turning in a direction, while the head lights are on, it turn on the fog light in the turn (right turn => right fog light) It can improve safety while cornering into a dark road or while driving on mountain roads, Perhaps it still can blind other people but at least it is just during the turn
@@cyrilyxe yes, "foglight" as cornering lights makes sence, in tight turns at low speeds. But for driving fairly straight in anything above around 40 kmh just makes for a blinding-effect.
You're right :) But the old 2021 is an SR+ which doesn't have fog lights. Had fog lights on some of my earlier cars but hardly ever used them, so don't miss them.
The top part of the clip is Highland 2024 I probably should have added it after the software version, I'll include it next time. Thanks for the comment :)
Tesla has taught their customers to be happy with being beta testers. This is a brilliant business strategy that allows them to deliver half baked software and hardware and still be praised.
Thanks for your comment :) I would agree with you on some points about their beta software, though not about the headlights, they are neither worse nor better than so many other matrix systems on comparable cars. They have the advantage over many other car manufacturers that they are very active in their development and rollout of their software, so they can fix bugs relatively quickly, like the one shown in this clip.
I don't think there are any significant differences in most updates, but this type of video gets a fair amount of views and with a good watch time, for my small channel, so I think there are some people who find them interesting :)
@@CatsAndRandomStuff well i do like the video and i also have the model 3 highland but i just wondered what differences there would be as i thought i would have missed something. Although i'm on the 20.9 even
OK, Thank you 🙂 The only small thing I've noticed that has been changed lately is that it doesn't turn on the high beam if you activate the auto function when there are street lights, as it did before. But apparently it doesn't turn it off again when you drive into an area with street lights.
@@CatsAndRandomStuff oh for me it turns of the high beams when i'm going in a street with enough lights and turns in on when i'm in a darker street, so no issue there for me though :/ i did notice that with high beams on and you swerve on a straight street that it does light up the corners a lot
100% agree. I have a LED bar on my 2024 M3 LR, and I have to manually dim my headlights often when driving on highway behind others, because it is not sensitive enough. Cars in the opposite direction are not an issue.
My own theory is that they are missing training data for HW4 cameras, as it works almost perfectly on the old HW3, which has been “running” in many cars for a good number of years now.
I don't mind it dimming the high beam because of the reflections in signs or on the truck trialer in the clip, it's perfectly fine :) The problem is that it often has difficulty recognizing the taillights of cars in front and does not dim the high beam in the area they are in.
@@CatsAndRandomStuffI feel like for markets without the matrix high beam (where I’m at), the flashing/dimming from reflector makes auto highbeam unusable. At least with matrix there are other segments on but AHB just turns off the entire light. I call it disco mode.
Didn't use AHB before the matrix feature was enabled, my routine was always to turn it off when it turned it on as AHB used to be useless here too, but it got better up to 2024.8.x where mantrix was enabled where it is legal and so I see your point and that it is still pretty much useless in your region.
I found this example in my old videos which clearly shows how adaptive headlights should work with dimming when you have cars in front, which it does not do on 2024 Model 3 Highland currently on Software 2024.20.9. Have a video showing the issue on my Model 3 2024 Highland here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mn7d9flVL00.html
not sure, but I'd guess the following: 1. there was quite some time between the 2 videos, as the grass has a different length. long grass seems to reflect the light on the upper video (2024.20.6.2) more, than the emptyness, which is obvious. it makes the impression though, as the upper lights are bighter. 2. at 0:37 - where the length of the grass doesn't matter, but the terrain does, it seems to me that the lower model (2024.8.9) gives a tiny bit more brightness, depth and width of the light beam. but hey - to me it's nitpicking, both are just fine, better than many. I've paid over 1200€ for a matrix option for an Opel Astra K, here it's free and seems even better
Finally after three years, other manufacturers installed this technique already a decade ago. The head up display is still missing though, even on the X and S models
Yes it took a while before it was activated, I drove 2 years with my first model 3 before it was activated. But I'm pretty sure if it had been one of the other brands, they would have charged a good amount of money to activate it, Tesla just said here it is and it's free, their constant development of the software and features is one of several reasons why I bought a new Tesla when I replaced the old one. I don't really see the problem in having only one screen with all the info, and no HUD, it took me less than a day to get used to it, and I haven't really thought about it since. But people are free to think what they want about it.
HUD isn’t coming any time soon. Why spend money and add complexity for a feature that few people use on a vehicle that is approaching “don’t need to do anything” autonomy?
Both cars have the matrix function enabled, the new one, the one at the top, has the advantage of being able to turn the light beam when cornering. Otherwise, most people think the old one is better :)
No, I don't think there are any significant differences in most updates, but this type of video gets a fair amount of views and with a good watch time, for my small channel, so I think there are some people who find them interesting.
I checked the project file in davinci, and you're right, I swapped them around, so I've added a couple blur boxes so it no longer appears in the video. Thanks for the info :)
Sooooo......basically using the same technology Audi has been using for over 10 years and pretty much the same tech I've had in my BMW for the past 12 years.
You're absolutely right, it's certainly nothing new, and Tesla doesn't have the best headlights on the market, that title probably goes to the V.A.G group or BMW. The point of the videos I post is to show people what they can expect if they buy a Model 3 and to show the development overtime when new software comes out, and I think it's interesting to learn more about video editing, and the best way to learn something is by doing it :)
Both things are better on the old model, the old lights' spread is greater with high beam, imo, and they have higher resolution for the matrix part, as far as I know, and can therefore dim more accurate than the new one. It also seems that the recognition of other cars, especially those you are catching up from behind, works better with the old cameras. But I guess that makes sense, as they don't have as much data on the V4 cameras yet, compared to the V3 which has been used for a number of years now.
