Night driving safety tips — Alaska Permit Test
Night driving safety tips on the Alaska permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Wear sunglasses in bright sunlight to protect your night seeing ability, and do not wear sunglasses in the dark.
Sunglasses cut the light your eyes need after dark, so wearing them at night makes it harder to see people and hazards.
Wear sunglasses in bright sunlight to protect night seeing ability.
Tinted windshields and front windows affect night vision and increase crash risk.
Dark glass blocks some of the little light there is at night, so you see hazards later.
Tinted windshields and front windows affect night vision and increase crash risk.
Do not use any lights, including headlights, marked or intended for “off-road use only” while traveling on the roadway.
Off-road lights are built to light up a trail, not to share a road, and they can worsen the glare for other road users.
Use of off-road lights on the roadway could worsen the effects of glare for other road users.
Alaska’s night-driving tips say to carry a flashlight and flares.
A breakdown at night leaves you hard to see and unable to see, so light and warning flares protect you and warn others.
Carry a flashlight and flares.
On the test
When does the Alaska manual say to wear sunglasses to protect your night seeing ability?
In bright sunlight. Sunglasses cut the light your eyes need after dark, so wearing them at night makes it harder to see people and hazards. Alaska Driver Manual, p.66: “Wear sunglasses in bright sunlight to protect night seeing ability.”
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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)