Tesla confirms rollout of critical feature, but Cybertruck misses out

Tesla’s S3XY lineup will get the Adaptive Headlights, but Cybertruck will not


Tesla has confirmed the rollout of a new, critical feature that is coming to the United States for the first time.

However, the Cybertruck will unfortunately miss out on it.

Tesla has a distinct advantage among many automakers as their Over-the-Air updates make their vehicles better over time. While many automakers have the ability to roll out new features through these updates, Tesla has been shown to be one of the companies that can truly make things significantly better with their cars.

A new feature coming to the United States and now rolling out is Adaptive Headlights. This feature will be applied to Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y vehicles with the proper hardware.

Adaptive Headlights are different than your typical auto highbeams in the way that they can dim certain pixels of the bulb to keep visibility for the Tesla driver high, while eliminating glare for those who are in oncoming cars:

For the first time, Tesla is rolling out the feature to these vehicles in the United States. European Tesla owners were able to use the function several months back, but it was pending approval in the U.S.

At first, Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering, Lars Moravy, said that the Cybertruck would have this feature. However, in late February, he confirmed that he was incorrect and the all-electric pickup will not have the ability to get Adaptive Headlights, as the company could not fit the correct hardware in the Cybertruck’s module:


The feature certainly makes visibility better for everyone on the road and will improve overall safety while eliminating the pesky and annoying feeling of being blinded by high beams.

The Adaptive Headlight feature for Tesla is part of the company’s Spring Update for 2025

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^^^. Great news on the adaptive headlights and kudos to Tesla for allowing it. My old X7 had some awesome laser lights but the functionality wasn’t enabled and BMW never allows for new functionality to be retro’d back even if it is something simple to be coded like this.

My Cayenne has some pretty cool lights and while the matrix lights aren’t enabled I can see it doing something cool when an oncoming car appears.

 

That's just the brights turning on and off when detecting oncoming cars This is a whole new ballgame, brights will always be on but oncoming and cars you are behind won't get blinded

 

Yep 👍. Got another pic. He's on 12.6.4.

I guess he will get a free upgrade to Hardware 4 (processor anyway)?

 

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

 

Yes I get that but the way it does it seems like what would happen with matrix lights. It’s like it cuts the light of from the oncoming cars and then the lights disappear around it. Hard to explain.

 

Maybe you posted about this and I missed it, but were these issues fixed in the 2025?

 

Code them on, you could do so with any German car all the way back to 2014 that had the hardware.

 

This is 10 year old tech lol!

 

Matrix headlights have been on Tesla's since 2022, they just never turned them on due to them not being legal, and for the same reason, waited to add them when it became clear they would become legal. My Tesla's have hardware and software that is superior to most modern cars, an infotainment screen no other car comes close to, and their vehicles keep getting better via software updates. Lets see any of your German cars drive themselves, using nothing more than camera's. They drive so well, you can't even tell a human is not driving

 

I looked and they actually did fix it! Don’t really understand how something so simple could be screwed up but it wasn’t a big deal to me because I didn’t use the lower storage much.

 

This is totally a US problem. Germans have had matrix headlights in the EU for ages now. Good to see us finally catching up. Gen 2 Rivians have some pretty nice ones, but Gen 1s just have traditional auto HBs which is a bummer

 

Exactly. My Polestar had them, as it's a European car, but they weren't enabled due to not being legal in the US. I believe they still haven't been enabled yet for US Polestar owners. My understanding is that until very recently, neither American cars or Japanese cars have Matrix headlights.

The difference between Tesla, Polestar, and I'm guessing Rivian from traditional cars is, you don't have to code them to activate them. They will be activated by an over the air update. Also Tesla can make changes to them (since they are LED's) on the fly, while "traditional cars" have to be coded, meaning having the proper software and plugging in a laptop, and of course knowing what you are doing

 

Don't get defensive that your mainstream car is behind the cutting edge of light tech, I'm just pointing out the reality that a lot of these "advanced" features are just marketing pushes and nothing actually new.

I have zero interest in self driving so that's a pointless thing to bring up to someone who actually loves operating the machine.

 

Peak consumer product is what it comes down to