I 1000% agree with you about your view on other posts on this sub.
we should make these cars how we wish them.
I also 1000% disagree with you about lights, but that's okay!
A. you can remove the switch and it becomes on/off with the car
B. you can get an autoswitch.
but its my view auto on/off headlights are bad (and of course their are various degrees of bad).
the worst way of doing it, is the way ford does it. an "auto" function on the switch, with a light senors, and a dashboard that glows exactly the same with the lights on or off.
auto headlights will take people out of the habit of thinking/controlling their lights.
and using the light sensor means that day time rain, or downtown enviroments, will keep the headlights off.
and a driver will not realize thier lights are off as they can read their dashboard perfectly fine.
ford has started putting a little green light to tell you your lights are on, but on some, you literally have no way of knowing what the lights are up to in auto mode.
so because someone is used to auto, they will be inclined to forget they turned on their lights when they realize they should have them on in the rain etc.
if you want to maintain your manual habit, you'll have an extra worthless setting you always have to avoid when turning on off your headlights.
the worst is having the "auto" feature all the way to the right.(one past the headlights).
VW does the auto headlights the least dumb way possible.
auto function left of the OFF.
lights on/off when the car is on/off.
and you should always have a switch to at least override, because of situations where light is bad.
approaching heavy security gates, star gazing, drive-in movies, etc.
VW dropped the ball in NA without having "parking lights" in these situations.
