Headlight beams — Vermont Permit Test
Headlight beams on the Vermont permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Use high beam when driving in open country with few other vehicles. Even on high beams your speed must be lower at night than by day.
High beams buy you distance, and the point of the distance is to be able to stop inside it.
Use high beam when driving in the open country with few other vehicles.
Always use low beam when approaching other vehicles or pedestrians, and in areas with streetlights or fog, and when following another vehicle.
High beams in somebody's mirror blind them as thoroughly as high beams in their eyes.
Always use low beam when approaching other vehicles or pedestrians so as not to blind the driver or pedestrian.
When driving at night you should promptly dim your headlights when meeting or following another vehicle.
Promptly matters: waiting until the other driver flashes you means they have already been blinded.
When driving a motor vehicle at night, you should promptly dim your headlights when meeting or following another vehicle
If you look directly at oncoming lights you could be blinded for several seconds.
Several seconds at highway speed is a few hundred feet of road covered with your eyes useless.
If you look directly at oncoming lights, you could be blinded for several seconds.
Looking toward the right edge of the highway until bright lights have gone by also helps you detect bicyclists or pedestrians who may be close to the edge of the road.
It keeps your eyes out of the glare and pointed at the part of the road somebody is most likely to be walking on.
This practice will also help you detect bicyclists or pedestrians who may be close to the edge of the road.
On the test
Where does Vermont say high beams belong?
In open country with few other vehicles about. High beams buy you distance, and the point of the distance is to be able to stop inside it. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.49: “Use high beam when driving in the open country with few other vehicles.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, published by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pdf (2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, form VN-007, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pages.txt (pdftotext -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 1, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)