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Photo : trambler58 ( Shutterstock ) Like everything else in the modern age, car headlights have enjoyed a steady advance in terms of technology and function. Back in the earliest days of cars, headlights used to be called head lamps because that’s what they were—gas-fueled flames inside a glass enclosure. Eventually, car makers migrated to electric headlights, and these have progressed from relatively weak “sealed-beam” lights to today’s LEDs—which are great for lighting up the night in front of your car, but also terrible because they are so bright they can effectively blind oncoming traffic. Combined that with the SUVs and pickup trucks that now sit so high up you need a ladder to get in and out of them, and you have a plague o f super-bright, blinding headlights upon our roads. The problem is exacerbated by drivers who don’t seem to understand the rules around high beams . Progress is going to save us again, because “ smart” headlights are going to hit the market soon t...