Night driving — Missouri Permit Test

Turn your headlights on from half an hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise.

Half an hour either side of the sun is when the light fails but the sky still looks bright enough to a driver.

Turn your headlights on from ½ hour after sunset until ½ hour before sunrise.

Your headlights only let you see about 350 feet ahead, so be sure you are driving slowly enough to stop or turn if needed.

Overdriving your headlights means arriving somewhere before you can see it. The distance is fixed; the speed is not.

Your headlights only let you see about 350 feet ahead.

Use your low beams when you come within 500 feet, about one block, of an oncoming vehicle.

High beams blind the driver coming toward you at exactly the moment you are closest.

Use your low beams when you come within 500 feet (about one block) of an oncoming vehicle.

Use your low beams when following another vehicle within 300 feet.

High beams fill the mirror of the car in front and take away their night vision too.

Also use your low beams when following another vehicle within 300 feet.

Use your high beams when there are no oncoming vehicles.

The extra reach is free when nobody is coming, and it is what finds the deer and the pedestrian.

Use your high beams when there are no oncoming vehicles.

Slow down when nearing a curve at night if you are driving the maximum posted speed limit.

The limit was set for a driver who can see the whole curve. At night you cannot.

Slow down when nearing a curve if you are driving the maximum posted speed limit.

Use the edgeline as a guide at night, or the center line if there is no edgeline.

A line close to your own wheels is easier to hold than the road ahead you cannot see.

Use the edgeline as a guide. If there is no edgeline, use the center line to guide you.

You must use your headlights any time weather conditions require the use of your windshield wipers.

The rule ties one switch to another. If the wipers are on, the lights are on.

You must use your headlights any time weather conditions require the use of your windshield wipers.

Watch carefully at night for highway signs, because they are harder to see, and for people and vehicles stopped at the roadside.

Both are unlit and both matter, and they are easy to pass without ever registering.

Watch carefully for highway signs, as they are harder to see at night.

When must headlights be on in Missouri?

From half an hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise. Half an hour either side of the sun is when the light fails but the sky still looks bright enough to a driver. Missouri Driver Guide, p.62: “Turn your headlights on from ½ hour after sunset until ½ hour before sunrise.”