Why we don’t have those anymore?!

because it's illegal to not have daytime running lights now in north america.

Because for decades we've had compliant, conformal, good-looking fixed lights that don't require motors, which represent another failure point.

Im sure all the moving parts probably made them break down faster? 🤔

They're useless. They do add more mechanics, servos, gears, & areas to get broken.

Ahh yes, I remember those. Mechanical nightmares that broke down on a regular basis.

The 2nd car on this video could be a batmobile if it was black.

@UniverCurious Because they break.

Because the law stated that headlights still had to be functional and light the road even when the mechanical device failed, which they frequently did. When they broke, you had no headlights -- bad thing.

Because safety regulators prefer pedestrians with working legs after an accident over pop up headlights. The regulators are wrong though.

They always broke after a year or two