If all 6 were on then the idiot had his high beams on. The two inner ones closest to the center of the car are the high beams on the touring models with the full LED headlights.
Sadly I think the problem is a lot of people having zero concept of how their car works as daily I see easily 10 cars that either A) are driving with high beams on 2) driving with NO lights on because they mistake the light given off by the DRL as meaning the headlights are on.
It’s so bad, at least where I am that I honestly wish it was mandated that every single car have auto headlights where the only option is off or on/auto and if the car senses it’s night and the lights are off but you are driving it gives you an audible warning and notice. Same for high beams where if you leave them on for longer than a few minutes a notice comes up saying they are on and if you ignore it the car disables them. If you click ok then it leaves them as is.
It was a non-Touring (I think it was an LX), so it had halogen high beams. The low beams on all 10th gens (and 9.5 gen Touring models) have 6 LED reflectors in each headlight, while the Touring has 3 additional LED reflectors dedicated to the high beams in each headlight (for a total of 9). The outer 4 looked normal enough, but those inner 2 LED's on each headlight seemed much brighter since they were pointing right at my mirror.
It's interesting to note that in some Honda press materials, only 4 of the 6 LED reflectors in each headlight are lit. Like in this accessories video by Honda:
In that front-end shot at 0:13, you can clearly see that the inner LED low beam reflectors are off. You can also see that it's a non-Touring model with halogen high beams if you look closely enough. I wonder if they somehow disabled those two inner LED's just for this video because they were afraid that they would glare too much for the camera? Hmmm...
But I completely agree with you that many people are completely oblivious to their car's lighting at night. It all started when DRLs became a thing, along with electro-luminescent gauge clusters that are always on, even during the day. People see that there's some light coming from the front of the car and that their gauges are lit, and are convinced that their headlights are on. Combine that with the fact that many people are extremely dense, and there's the problem.
I pass a newer Civic almost every night on the same stretch of road, going along with just their LED DRLs and parking lights on. I flick my lights off and on every time I pass them, trying to get them to turn their headlights on, and they ignore me every single time. I'm not sure if they're stupid, or if they're just some ignorant kid that probably thinks that driving with only the DRLs at night looks cool or something (it is a Civic, after all). I even watched them pass right by a cop one night, and the cop did nothing. I probably wouldn't care so much if, 1) LED DRLs at night weren't so blinding, and 2) if that particular road wasn't infested with deer. Unfortunately, it will probably take them hitting a deer or getting pulled over to finally realize what an idiot they've been.
And don't get me started on the morons who drive around at night and never turn off their high beams (mainly Yellow Cab drivers, it seems). There's a special place in you-know-where for them. I usually give them one solid courtesy flash with my high beams, and if they don't turn theirs off within 2 seconds, I flick mine on and leave them on until they pass (unless there are other cars around them). I have no patience when it comes to inconsiderate people, especially when they put myself and others at risk. I even upgraded my high beams to LED just to make the payback more severe.
I think that headlights should be made completely automatic to the point that the driver can't turn them off at night unless the parking brake is engaged. That would at least eliminate the people who drive around with only DRLs. As for the high beams, those should be made completely automatic as well with only the ability to "flash to pass" when other vehicles are nearby. It is nice that more and more cars these days are coming with automatic high beams, and that they seem to work pretty well most of the time. Unfortunately, they can still be overridden, allowing people to keep them on whenever they like. Take that away, and they'd be perfect.
