Approximately when did car makers stop using two headlights (and start using one with a high beam filament)?

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I’m sure that I’ve seen late-model BMW and Chevy cars with separate high/low beam headlights. And I’ve seen models from the 1970s which had single-lamp assemblies with the high and low beam filaments built into the lamp, as you suggest.

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