From doing some research, I note that CPF has a dim opinion of Consumer Reports headlight testing.
It seems that CPF has a slightly higher opinion of IIHS' headlamp tests.
However, this part of Virgil's post from 2016 stood out to me:
I'm looking to get a new car soon, and I live in upstate New York. Most of the highways here aren't lighted at night. I want a car with decent headlights. Can I trust IIHS testing? I'm curious as to what the assumptions and pseudoscientific numbers are in the IIHS testing protocol.
It seems that CPF has a slightly higher opinion of IIHS' headlamp tests.
However, this part of Virgil's post from 2016 stood out to me:
No, it really doesn't. Not once you've seen the stackup of guesses, assumptions, and apparently random, pseudoscientific numbers that have gone into the test protocol.
I'm looking to get a new car soon, and I live in upstate New York. Most of the highways here aren't lighted at night. I want a car with decent headlights. Can I trust IIHS testing? I'm curious as to what the assumptions and pseudoscientific numbers are in the IIHS testing protocol.
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