{"id":9942,"date":"2013-10-23T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:02:27","slug":"pop-up-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/pop-up-headlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-Up Headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102313_1157_PopUpHeadli1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aisha Harris looked at the past, present, and future of pop-up headlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pop-up headlights have been around since 1936 when the Cord 810 Convertible first featured them.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re sold for their aerodynamic advantage, although the effect is extremely small.<\/li>\n<li>More likely they appeal to our predisposition towards anthropomorphism as they take the most human looking feature of the car \u2013 the eye like headlights \u2013 and add eyelids to them.<\/li>\n<li>The last real car to feature them came out in 2004 (pictured above).<\/li>\n<li>They seem to have been a victim of EU Regulations which require the front of cars to be more readily deformable for the sake of safety.<\/li>\n<li>While it&#8217;s possible to design pop-up headlamps around those requirements it&#8217;s expensive and not worth the cost.<\/li>\n<li>The regulations may only apply in the EU but since car manufacturers work globally those requirements have affected their designs around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Headlight innovation isn&#8217;t dead yet. Adaptive headlights are being developed that adjust light beams based on how the driver is driving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See some photos of pop-up headlights through the ages, the American regulatory framework for headlamps, and why they were most popular on sports cars in the 1970s over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2013\/10\/22\/pop_up_headlights_why_the_hidden_headlamp_has_disappeared.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2013\/10\/22\/pop_up_headlights_why_the_hidden_headlamp_has_disappeared.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aisha Harris looked at the past, present, and future of pop-up headlights: Pop-up headlights have been around since 1936 when the Cord 810 Convertible first featured them. They&#8217;re sold for their aerodynamic advantage, although the effect is extremely small. More likely they appeal to our predisposition towards anthropomorphism as they take the most human looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102313_1157_PopUpHeadli1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}