Night driving headlights — North Dakota Permit Test
Night driving headlights on the North Dakota permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
At night you can only see as far as your headlights, so do not overdrive them: you should be able to stop within the distance they light.
If you drive faster than your lights reach, a dark car or animal appears too late to stop for.
You can only see as far as your headlights, and this cuts down on your time to react.
In North Dakota, use your headlights from sunset to sunrise, and at any other time necessary for safe driving.
After sunset other drivers cannot see you, and you cannot see the road, without your lights on.
Use your headlights from sunset to sunrise, and at any other time necessary for safe driving.
Use your headlights in bad weather when rain, snow, sleet, hail, smoke, or fog cuts visibility to less than 1,000 feet.
In fog or snow your lights let other drivers see you long before they could see your car alone.
Use your headlights during inclement weather when visibility is less than 1,000 feet due to rain, snow, sleet, hail, smoke, or fog.
Clean your windshield inside and out to reduce glare from oncoming vehicles, and clean your headlights to give more light.
A dirty windshield scatters oncoming headlights into a blinding glare, which hides what is on the road.
Clean your windshield inside and out; this will reduce the amount of glare from oncoming vehicles.
On the test
What does it mean not to overdrive your headlights?
Be able to stop within the distance they light. If you drive faster than your lights reach, a dark car or animal appears too late to stop for. North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, p.24: “You can only see as far as your headlights, and this cuts down on your time to react.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, published by the North Dakota Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/ND.pdf (North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, 2025-2027, Revised 2025, North Dakota Department of Transportation, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/ND.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://www.dot.nd.gov/driver/noncommercial-driver-license-manual (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://www.dot.nd.gov/driver/driver-license (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark for the Class D knowledge test)
- https://ndlegis.gov/information/acdata/pdf/37-03-01.pdf (N.D. Admin. Code chapter 37-03-01 and the rest of article 37-03, read 2026-10-04; states no knowledge-test figure)
- https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t39c06.pdf (NDCC chapter 39-06, read 2026-10-04; section 39-06-13 sets what the examination covers and states no figure)