Night driving — North Carolina Permit Test

The law requires headlights from sunset to sunrise and whenever visibility is 400 feet or less.

Headlights are as much for being seen as for seeing. The law turns them on before full dark, when you are hardest to spot.

The law requires use of headlights from sunset to sunrise and when visibility is 400 feet or less.

At night in a city, use low-beam headlights; on the open road use high beams unless you are approaching or following another vehicle.

City streets are lit and full of other drivers to blind. The open road is dark and empty, which is what high beams are for.

When you drive at night in a city, use low-beam headlights. On the open road, use high-beam headlights unless you are approaching or following another vehicle.

If an approaching driver does not dim their headlights, blink your high beams once to remind them; if they still do not dim, keep your lights on low beam and look slightly to the right, using the road edge as a guide.

Answering glare with glare blinds two drivers instead of one. Looking at the road edge keeps you on the road.

If the driver still does not dim the lights, keep your lights on low beam;

Never drive at night at a speed at which you cannot stop within the distance you can see on the road ahead.

Your headlights set the edge of what you know about. Driving faster than you can stop inside it is driving blind.

Never drive at a speed at which you cannot stop within the distance you can see on the road ahead; and

Night driving is more dangerous because you cannot see as well, more impaired drivers are on the road, drivers are tired, oncoming headlights can blind you, and dirty windshields and poor lights add to the problem.

The dark hides hazards, and the hour adds drinkers and tired drivers to the road. Every factor points the same way.

There are more impaired drivers on the road;

When parking on or along a highway at night, turn on your emergency flashers, and never leave your headlights on when parked, because they can blind oncoming drivers.

A parked car with its headlights on looks like a car coming the other way, in the wrong place. Flashers say “stopped.”

When parking on or along a highway, turn on your emergency flashers; • Never leave your headlights on when you park at night — they can blind the drivers of oncoming vehicles.

By law, when must you use your headlights?

From sunset to sunrise, and when visibility is 400 feet or less. Headlights are as much for being seen as for seeing. The law turns them on before full dark, when you are hardest to spot. North Carolina Driver Handbook, p.71: “The law requires use of headlights from sunset to sunrise and when visibility is 400 feet or less.”