Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
In rain you should turn on:
- Your parking lights only
- Your high beams and hazard lights
- Your windshield wipers, low-beam headlights and defroster — correct answer
Why
Low beams, not high beams: high beams bounce off the rain. (Section 8, Slippery Roads.)
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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