Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
When driving at night, how should you use your headlights?
- Drive without headlights until you see another car
- Keep high beams on at all times
- Use high beams on dark roads without traffic and low beams for oncoming or following vehicles — correct answer
Why
High beams on dark open roads, low beams whenever there is a vehicle coming toward you or one you are following closely.
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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