The much advertised Intelligent Lighting System doesn't work in the US because of regulations requiring separate or switchable high and low beam lights. Still, it does switch between low and high beams automatically, if somewhat slowly at times (speed sensitive and very light sensitive). Plus it has cornering lights of sorts. It is definitely a step up from the standard LED system, but a step below the fully automatic intelligent European version. Maybe there can be a software upgrade if the US gets it act together...not holding my breath.

You might want your dealer to check yours.

 

I have a 2017 E300 and my automatic high beams works just fine.

Regards

 

@Cao_Black,

Thanks for your reply. So far, the dealer is refusing to check my car. On the telephone, their Service Department pushed me off to a Delivery Specialist, who told me, "That's just the way the car works."

(I believe I can see the cornering lights to which you refer. The lighting somehow gives more emphasis to the direction in which I'm turning.)
@Helo pilot,

Would you be kind enough to identify what settings you're using for the various knobs and switches while your automatic high beams are operational?

Thanks,

Mark

 

The car manual should explain how to operate automatic high beams.

Put the light switch to auto and the stalk forward. Auto high-beam has to be set on from the cluster menu (if I remember all correctly). It works just perfectly on all of our cars. There is a minimum speed before high beams turn on but I understood this is not the issue here.

 

@Diesel Benz,

My car manual says nothing about "automatic high beams." It refers only to Adaptive Highbeam Assist. I am following those directions as accurately as I can, and the feature does not appear to be working.

My rotary light switch is set to the "Auto" position, and the light stalk is pushed forward, just as you say. When I do push the light stalk forward, I get the "A" icon on my dashboard display, immediately to the left of the green low beam icon. I am driving much faster than 19 mph (the minimum speed according to the manual) on a dark road with no other traffic. I cannot get high beams to turn on.

Mark

 

I checked the positions of my knobs and you have it correct and that is the indication that I get. When the bright headlights come on the A icon will turn blue. The only thing I can think of is that the roads you are driving on are too well lit. Take your car out to a dark country road and try it.

The comment that it will not work in the USA is wrong. Nothing more USA than Oklahoma and mine work fine.

Regards.

 

Just to clarify, the USA adaptive LED multi-beam headlights work great. IMO they are much better than the standard US version, and worth the extra money.

However, they are not the European version, which are a step up from the US lamps. US regulations do not permit the European style, but Mercedes ads often depict them.

 

@Helo pilot,

In the last few nights, I have seen the high beams come on a few times. But the car is way too quick to dim them again. It appears to be reacting to street lighting that isn't (IMHO) very bright, or even bright stadium lights a mile away on a hill at a 30-degree angle from the direction of travel. I wish I could somehow get the sensor to be a lot less sensitive. The feature as it is currently working on my car is next to useless.

(Note: on my car, the indicator for high beams is the green headlamp indicator turning blue. The "A" indicator stays gray throughout.)

Mark

 

The "A" indicator should turn blue when the high beams are on. The headlight indicator stays green.

Since my last post I have purchased a 2018 E400C and the automatic high beams work fine.....just like on my E300.

Good luck.

 

Hello, what do you exactly mean by your lights work “just fine” can you please elaborate on the functions that work fine? Do your lights just switch from high beam to low beam when it senses a car approaching your car? Or it projects a shadow on that coming car while keeping high beams on ? (see the video about on how individuals LED cells turn off to project a shadow on incoming traffic) thanks

 

Saed20,

When I have my high beam on they switch to low when it senses a car approaching, after the car has passed it switches back to high beams. They also switch to low when I am overtaking another car, then switch back to high after I have passed the car.

Even with low beams, driving on a narrow two lane road there is some light projection on the oncoming lane. Mercedes tries to mitigate the light in oncoming driver's eyes by a "shadow" in the oncoming lane.

Regards.

 

If anyone found the adaptive high beam (IHC) sensitivity settings in vediamo. I've tried playing around with SAMF172 module but doesn't seem to make much difference. My problem is my W204 adaptive high beam is often slow to automatically turn off when oncoming vehicles and streetlights.