Automated control of headlight illumination by onboard vehicle-to-everything (V2X) device

A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) device onboard a vehicle, comprising:

• a memory;
• at least one transceiver;
• and
• at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
• receive, via the at least one transceiver, one or more V2X safety messages indicating a potential safety condition related to illumination of an object, wherein the one or more V2X safety messages indicate information relating to a location of the object;
• determine, in response to the information relating to the location of the object indicated by the one or more V2X safety messages, that the object is within or approaching a target area in which illumination of the object by headlights of the vehicle can be adjusted;
• determine one or more occluded regions of the target area based on topographical features identified by the V2X device;
• determining whether the object is within or outside of the one or more occluded regions based on the V2X safety information indicating the location of the object and control an illumination intensity and/or an illumination pattern of the headlights of the vehicle in response to determining that the object is within the target area.