Headlight high low beams — New Mexico Permit Test

Use your high beams whenever there are no oncoming vehicles; high beams let you see twice as far as low beams.

At night you can only stop for what you can see, and high beams show you much more of the road.

High beams let you see twice as far as low beams.

It is important to use high beams on unfamiliar roads, in construction areas, or where there may be people along the side of the road.

On a road you do not know, more light lets you spot curves, work zones and people sooner.

It is important to use high beams on unfamiliar roads, in construction areas or where there may be people along the side of the road.

Dim your high beams whenever you come within about one block of an oncoming vehicle.

Bright lights in an oncoming driver's eyes can blind them just as they pass you.

Dim your high beams whenever you come within about a one-block distance of an oncoming vehicle.

Use your low beams within 200 feet when following another vehicle or when in heavy traffic.

High beams from behind glare in the other driver's mirrors and can blind them.

Use your low beams within 200 feet when following another vehicle or when in heavy traffic.

Use low beams in fog or when it is snowing or raining hard; light from high beams reflects back, causing glare.

In fog or heavy snow, bright light bounces off the drops and flakes and makes it harder to see.

Use the low beams in fog or when it is snowing or raining hard.

Do not drive at any time with only your parking lights on; parking lights are for parking only.

Parking lights are too dim to light the road or let other drivers judge where you are.

Do not drive at any time with only your parking lights on.

How much farther do high beams let you see than low beams?

About twice as far. At night you can only stop for what you can see, and high beams show you much more of the road. New Mexico Driver Manual, p.18: “High beams let you see twice as far as low beams.”