[Luckypants]

It's just a gadget and could be turned off on the car I had it on. It is a quite useful feature for those numpties that drive in bad weather during the day with no lights though. But the system is fooled by fog so you need to manually turn on your lights.

Basically it is like all new things, answers one or two issues but creates new ones.

The 'inadvertent flashing' you describe is not an issue I ever had with automatic headlamps and I think it is quite easy to differentiate between dipped beam being switched on and a flash of main beam. I feel the driver who pulled across the Peugeot's path was not really paying attention and should have recognised the difference between dipped beam and a flash of the lamps. I agree with the comment that you don't act on other road user's 'signals'.