AFS Lighting system

I've ordered and bought a 458, 488 spider, and Pista all of which have the lifter. The lifter always comes with AFS (around $6-7K), you can not separate the lifter from AFS option.

You can, however, order just the AFS but never just the lifter alone.

 

You are totally correct

 

I've never seen any 458 with just AFS only on the sticker and not a front lift. Learn something new every day.

Back to the nitty gritty:

Beginning in the 2000s, there was a resurgence in interest in the idea of moving or optimizing the headlight beam in response not only to vehicular steering and suspension dynamics, but also to ambient weather and visibility conditions, vehicle speed, and road curvature and contour. A task force under the EUREKA organization, composed primarily of European automakers, lighting companies and regulators began working to develop design and performance specifications for what is known as Adaptive Front-Lighting Systems, commonly AFS. Manufacturers have released vehicles equipped with AFS since 2003.

Rather than the mechanical linkages employed in earlier directional-headlamp systems, AFS relies on electronic sensors, transducers and actuators. Other AFS techniques include special auxiliary optical systems within a vehicle's headlamp housings. These auxiliary systems may be switched on and off as the vehicle and operating conditions call for light or darkness at the angles covered by the beam the auxiliary optics produce. A typical system measures steering angle and vehicle speed to swivel the headlamps.The most advanced AFS systems use GPS signals to anticipate changes in road curvature, rather than simply reacting to them.

Now, I almost certain our AFS is made by HELLA and this is a great page that show exactly what these do and the advanced stages of what happens as you go faster, slower, etc.

https://www.hella.com/techworld/us/Technical/Automotive-lighting/Adaptive-headlights-663/