Lighting safety suggestions — Alaska Permit Test
Lighting safety suggestions on the Alaska permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Use low beam when driving in rain, fog, snow, or dust.
High beams bounce off falling snow and fog back into your eyes, so low beams let you see farther.
Use low beam (dim) when driving in rain, fog, snow, or dust.
When meeting vehicles at night, do not stare at their headlights; use quick glances instead.
Staring into headlights blinds you for a while afterward, while quick glances keep track of the other car without the glare.
When meeting vehicles at night do not stare at headlights.
When meeting vehicles at night, use quick glances to check the right edge of the road.
The right edge is a guide you can follow while oncoming lights are bright, keeping you in your lane.
Check right edge of road.
On the test
Which lights does the Alaska manual say to use when driving in rain, fog, snow, or dust?
Low beam headlights. High beams bounce off falling snow and fog back into your eyes, so low beams let you see farther. Alaska Driver Manual, p.67: “Use low beam (dim) when driving in rain, fog, snow, or dust.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Alaska Driver Manual, published by the Alaska Department of Administration, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pdf (Alaska Driver Manual, REV.10/2025, Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/drivermanual/ (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/instruction-permit/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/your-first-alaska-drivers-license/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp?media=print&secStart=2.90.010&secEnd=2.90.990 (2 AAC 90, read 2026-10-04; 2 AAC 90.420(h)(2) sets the knowledge test's retest wait and no figure)