Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. You can't help but notice high-intensity discharge (HID/xenon) and light-emitting diode (LED) headlights—the light they ...

Cars' headlights have come a long way since charming yet potentially dangerous acetylene headlamps debuted in vintage automobiles. The later halogen headlights are still around, but the world has ...

Reliably generating light with the limited resources at a car’s disposal was a problem for early automotive engineers. Tungsten filaments, similar to the kind found in household incandescent light ...

Modern headlights are a technology that is hardly explained or discussed. It's mainly due to their complexity and also as it's no where near as sexy as say power or torque figures, but when it comes ...

When driving off-road at night or even down rural roads, it becomes very apparent that the factory headlights and fog lights leave a lot to be desired, even with the high beams on. In the past, ...

Nighttime driving these days can turn into a dazzling — even blinding — light show from the different types of headlights available on newer vehicles. The familiar warm, yellow glow cast by halogen ...

Some of Jeep’s headlights leave a lot to be desired – namely light output. In particular, the halogen lamps on the Wrangler and Cherokee have been called out by the IIHS as among the worst on the ...

Check the sales brochure of a high-end new car and chances are you’ll find that the headlights are HID units. But let’s start at the start: What are HID headlights? HID actually stands for High ...