Get ready, folks, the federal government has been busy cutting through some red tape in an attempt to make night time driving safer.
In the process they’ve shortened an unnecessarily long name into three short letters, ADB which stands for Adaptive Driving Beams though its full name is Adaptive Driving Beam Headlight Systems.
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