Control unit for controlling the main headlamps of a vehicle with adjustable light distributions and with an adjustable vertical cut-off line in at least one light distribution, - with an input for reading in information about the location of those objects in the area in front of the vehicle off of which glare is to be suppressed, especially from the vehicles in front and/or oncoming vehicles, - with processing equipment, - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a light distribution - the setting of which can be set on the right main headlamp and/or on the left main headlamp - can be generated, and/or - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the right main headlamp and a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the left headlamp can be generated, - with an output at which the control variables for adjusting the light distribution and/or the vertical cut-off line can be provided, - wherein the control unit has a memory in which illumination intensities of areas in front of the main headlamps are stored for the light distributions from the main headlamps that can be configured using the control unit, - so that it is possible to ascertain - by looking that the illumination intensities that have been stored in the processing equipment - whether an illumination intensity less than or greater than a predetermined illumination intensity value is present in the area in front of the main headlamps on the objects on which glare is to be suppressed that is the result of the light distributions and - such that, when the predetermined illumination intensity value is exceeded by the illumination intensity predetermined for the location of the object on which glare is to be suppressed in front of the main headlamps, the settings below can be modified for the purposes of reducing the illumination intensity at the location of the object on which glare is to be suppressed using the processing equipment that is set on the main headlamps: • The cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps or • The light distribution set via the processing equipment at the main headlamps by dimming, or • The light distributions and cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps - with an input for reading in information about the location of those objects in the area in front of the vehicle off of which glare is to be suppressed, especially from the vehicles in front and/or oncoming vehicles, - with processing equipment, - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a light distribution - the setting of which can be set on the right main headlamp and/or on the left main headlamp - can be generated, and/or - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the right main headlamp and a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the left headlamp can be generated, - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a light distribution - the setting of which can be set on the right main headlamp and/or on the left main headlamp - can be generated, and/or - with which, based on the information that is read in, control variables used to set a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the right main headlamp and a vertical cut-off line of a light distribution set on the left headlamp can be generated, - with an output at which the control variables for adjusting the light distribution and/or the vertical cut-off line can be provided, - wherein the control unit has a memory in which illumination intensities of areas in front of the main headlamps are stored for the light distributions from the main headlamps that can be configured using the control unit, - so that it is possible to ascertain - by looking that the illumination intensities that have been stored in the processing equipment - whether an illumination intensity less than or greater than a predetermined illumination intensity value is present in the area in front of the main headlamps on the objects on which glare is to be suppressed that is the result of the light distributions and - such that, when the predetermined illumination intensity value is exceeded by the illumination intensity predetermined for the location of the object on which glare is to be suppressed in front of the main headlamps, the settings below can be modified for the purposes of reducing the illumination intensity at the location of the object on which glare is to be suppressed using the processing equipment that is set on the main headlamps: • The cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps or • The light distribution set via the processing equipment at the main headlamps by dimming, or • The light distributions and cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps • The cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps or • The light distribution set via the processing equipment at the main headlamps by dimming, or • The light distributions and cut-off lines set using the processing equipment at the main headlamps