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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.[/quote]

Yes, you click them off when someone is approaching. I grew up in the country, and high-beams are a necessity on back roads, but I have rarely used them since moving to the DC metro area, because the streets I drive on at night are usually well-lit.

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You want them when you're on back roads because there are no street lights and the high beams allow you to see further and wider.

But you need to click them down if you see large game animals like bear or deer because the high beams can cause deer to freeze or startle and that is an extreme safety hazard for both you and the animal if they freeze/startle in your path and you hit them with your car.

Two other uses of high beams:
- if someone blinks their high beams at you as you're approaching them in your car from an opposite direction then it is a signal to you that there is a speed trap coming up for your lane/s of traffic, and
- if you are behind an 18-wheeler in an adjacent lane and the trucker needs to move into your lane but is unsure where you are relative to the end of his truck, then you can blink your high beams at him to indicate that there is space for him to pull in front of you.[/quote]

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