That’s not new, either. My '85 Camry did the same thing. My '92 Miata doesn’t. I’ve killed the battery once, and I now carry jumper cables in the trunk.
To be fair, the French invented swiveling headlights: they were on a luxury Citroen in the early 70’s, although I gather they didn’t work very well, being mechanical and not electronic.
And French.
Okay, okay … I’ll grant credit where it’s due, the Germans haven’t necessarily “thought up” everything. In fact, now that I give it some thought, I believe it was Volvo that began most of the pioneering research into airbags during the 70’s. Their claim to fame has always been their efforts into researching safety technology. But the Germans are the ones who take it mainstream and improve upon it tremendously. 
Here in America we don’t do much except trail behind Japan. Germany sets the benchmark, Japan makes a fantastic copy, and then America struggles desperately to tread water and decides building trucks and SUVs is easier than packaging a decent passenger car. Here I go again, I’ve hijacked my own thread …
Do we ignore that Tucker put a swivelling center headlight in his cars in 1948?
Tucker beat that by several centuries. I mean, decades.
10 minute gap on a simulpost? Weird. **Cheese[/]b’s post wasn’t there when I posted. Maybe I should turn off the autoreply switch.