One problem related to headlights has been reported for the 2021 Honda Ridgeline. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving at night even with no traffic ahead, the automatic high beams rarely turn on. When they do, they turn off almost immediately due to reflections from road signs and even small road markers. Occasionally, they'll fail to dim in a timely fashion or will flash causing other drivers to think I'm doing this on purpose. Other owners of 2020 and 2021 Honda Ridgelines are reporting the same useless and unsafe operation. I owned 2017 and 2019 Honda Ridgelines with automatic high beams and the feature worked reasonably well. From 2017-2019, Honda used a dedicated camera for the automatic high beam function. For the 2020 model year, Honda eliminated this camera and merged the automatic high beam functionality into the "multi-purpose camera unit" that is also used for other functions such as the lane keeping assist system feature of Honda sensing. In short, the new automatic high beam system is not only useless, but offensive to other drivers. I'm afraid the flashing will induce road rage or gain unwanted attention from law enforcement officers. For now, I have disabled the automatic high beam system. The 2021 Ridgeline's headlights are already a step backwards according to iihs testing (and my own observations) and I feel like the "high beam assist' credit they apply should be removed since this feature is next to useless since the 2020 model year.
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