Toyota Highlander Owners Manual: High beam automatic turning on or off conditions

Toyota Highlander Owners Manual / Driving / Operating the lights and wipers / Automatic high beam / High beam automatic turning on or off conditions

When all of the following conditions are met, the high beam will be automatically turned on (after approximately 1 second):

vehicle speed is above approximately 21 mph (34 km/h).
The area ahead of the vehicle is dark.
There are no oncoming or preceding vehicles with headlights or tail lights turned on.
There are few streetlights on the road ahead.

If any of the following conditions are met, the high beam will be automatically turned off:

vehicle speed drops below approximately 17 mph (27 km/h).
The area ahead of the vehicle is not dark.
Oncoming or preceding vehicles have headlights or tail lights turned on.
There are many streetlights on the road ahead.

Activating the automatic high beam system

Push the lever away from you with the headlight switch in the or position. Press the automatic high beam switch. The automatic high beam indicator will come on when the head ...

Turning the high beam on/off manually

Switching to low beam Pull the lever to the original position. The automatic high beam indicator will turn off. Push the lever away from you to activate the automatic high beam system again ...

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