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As a car enthusiast, personally I 1000% agree with the post. To me this is absolutely the right place for this post.
I want my pop up and down headlights back, and instead we have dumb SUVs with bumpers 6ft tall and zero appeal so that a soccer mom can plow over pedestrians with peak lethality
But the popups are "unsafe". Because then you might hit a pedestrian. At night. When everything being open at night in the US died during covid. Makes sense ๐
I want them back ๐ฅน
Guess I had a different takeaway from the graphic. I kinda see that now.
Updoot.
Was that the reason? I figured they faded away because they were an additional manufacturing and maintenance expense because of the moving parts.
Heck, they allowed for shallower hoods that seem to be safer for pedestrians when they are down!
The UNECE made it very difficult for pop-up headlights to comply with pedestrian safety regulations. But truth be told, pop-ups were also known to be unnecessarily complicated and prone to failure. The reason why they are no longer around is (as usual) a combination of multiple factors.