Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Jason Marker)

JoshBryan/Shutterstock As a baby of the Nineteen Eighties who got here of age within the early ’90s, pop-up headlights are, in my mind, the height of automotive cool. All of the raddest, most interesting cars of my childhood — Lamborghinis, Starions, Trans-Ams, Fieros — had pop-ups. Heck, even mom cars like Honda Accords had ’em. I once even had the pleasure of owning a automobile with flip-up headlights, my 1990 Dodge Daytona. Unfortunately, you only don’t see pop-up headlights anymore, which is an actual bummer. Why, though? Why don’t cars have flip-up headlights anymore? Is it forgotten knowledge? Nah. Is it a…