Headlight beams dimming — Oklahoma Permit Test
Headlight beams dimming on the Oklahoma permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
In Oklahoma, dim your high beams to low beams within 1000 feet of an oncoming vehicle.
High beams shining into an oncoming driver’s eyes can blind them for a moment, just as they reach you.
Dim your high beam headlights to low beams within 1000 feet of an oncoming vehicle or within 600 feet of the vehicle you are following.
In Oklahoma, dim your high beams to low beams within 600 feet of a vehicle you are following.
Your high beams glare off the mirrors of the car ahead and can dazzle its driver from behind.
Dim your high beam headlights to low beams within 1000 feet of an oncoming vehicle or within 600 feet of the vehicle you are following.
On the test
How close to an oncoming vehicle must you be when you switch your high beams to low beams?
Within 1000 feet. High beams shining into an oncoming driver’s eyes can blind them for a moment, just as they reach you. Oklahoma Driver Manual, p.59: “Dim your high beam headlights to low beams within 1000 feet of an oncoming vehicle or within 600 feet of the vehicle you are following.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Oklahoma Driver Manual, published by the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OK.pdf (Oklahoma Driver Manual, Copyright 2025, Updated 11/24/25, Service Oklahoma, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OK.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OK-exam.html (Service Oklahoma, Oklahoma Written Knowledge Test, https://oklahoma.gov/service/popular-services/written-test.html, read 2026-10-04; states both exam figures; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://oklahoma.gov/service/all-pages/driver-education.html (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- OAC 260:135-5-41 (Service Oklahoma's knowledge-test rule, read 2026-10-04 as reproduced at https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/oklahoma/OAC-260-135-5-41; a minimum of 20 questions and 75 percent to pass, corroborating the agency page)