I don't drive much in the dark but my and I went out to dinner last night and oncoming traffic kept flashing their high beams at us.

I confirmed my high beams weren't on but we continued to get flashed while driving home

Does anyone else have this experience?

I have the standard headlights. 2021 ES300H

 

Not unusual with leds. I have the adaptive triple beams which I always have on AUTOHIGH and I rarely get the flash.

 

Judging from just the amount of light on my garage wall when I start it up, those triple beams are ******* bright. They're obviously within gov't reg, otherwise they wouldn't be OEM.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-worl...ight-less-safe

Also, some of these buggy rides with the blue beam "wannabees" are totally annoying.

 

OP doesnt have the triple beams.

 

Well, in that case, he lives around a bunch of whiners.

 

I had the exact same thing happen to me a few days back. I rarely drive at night but had 2 different cars flash their headlights at me within 30 seconds of each other but my high beams weren't on. I do have the triple beam LED headlights though. I was going over speedbumps in a parking lot though and that may have made them seem brighter.

 

Thank you for the responses.

I'm going to keep a list of things as they come up and give it to the dealership when I get my 1st 5k maintenance done

 

Triple beams as well as BI-LED tend to have soft-ish cutoff when compared to most Xenon/HID setups. It's not well defined as compared to older Xenon headlight projectors. There is light bleed that causes glare. though latest gen LEDs are a lot better at cutoff than prior gens, specifically 1st and 2nd gen.

I had personally tuned BI-XENON RX350 projectors in a prior car w/ with extremely laser sharp cutoff and rarely got flashed. however the downside with that setup is since there is zero bleed, bounce/jostle of the car can appear as if the driver is flashing when reality it's going in and out of the cutoff instantly.

Generally it's people who don't know about cars/grandmas/civilians that flash. When they do that just flash highs to let them know hey buddy these are my actual highs... lol. Today if I see bright LEDs or even Xenons that may be on the "high" mode, i don't even bother flashing them. i take it as the cost of doing business, par for the course. could just be a car going up an incline, to which they have zero control over. so not fair to flash them.

when i do see halogen cars in high mode, i'll flash them cause it's obvious when they're in dummy high beam mode.