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I checked managements Kia Niro this evening. MY 2021.Last of the old shape after facelift. (The car, not the wife).
Driving lights (front only) do not come on after startup until Drive is engaged (Auto box with manual control options but no clutch.)
They stay on until the car is put into Park OR the Handbrake is applied.
They stay turned off if the car is put into ignition mode only.
So the only way for a solo driver to check what is and is not working, absent a bright coloured wall or a mirror effect in front of them, the only way to undertake a check is to have the engine running and be in Drive mode OR Neutral but without applying the parking brake.
"Auto hold" seems to act as a variant of the parking brake function - which is what it is.
Whether all Kia's (By age) have the same modus operandi I can't say.
How I ever drove without all of these clever features I cannot imagine ....
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