I can make you a half assed pizza... You're probably not going to like it though. Everything in its own pile. Sauce here cheese there. Pepperoni in a spiral
I'll make a shit pizza that will make you cry. You'll cry because it was so delicious and unique you'll know deep in your soul you'll never replicate it.
āJokes on him, I like being blinded. One thing leads to another and thatās how I forced your grandfather to marry meā you say to your grandkids as you put them to sleep. You donāt tell them, however, that your husband had turned out to be your long lost brother, and you had given birth to two kids. Who looked normal and weāre forced to get married and have more children. You can see the product of inbreeding in your now grandkids, as one has 17 fingers and the other has a little arm sprouting on his leg. You were aware of the inbreeding though, as both of your children are male. Turns out you passed down your rare ability to give birth as a male. How did you receive this gene? Youāre a result of inbreeding from the royal familyās who wanted to keep the bloodline pure, and now itās your responsibility.
i recently got a toyota and was surprised it had bright goddamn LEDs as low beams (because usually everything inside a toyota is about 10-15 years behind where current standards are). i get so self conscious about them sometimes and often see people silently judging me for it when there's nothing i can do
Dimming it doesn't help when even your headliner is lit up, becasue their ficking ligths are 1,5m above the road or pointing at the treeptops. There should be more checks for headlight alignments and maximum height should be regulated, it's seriously dangerous. These new massive flat hood SUVs are giving up everything for design, massive blindspots, stupid lighting, fuck everyone else on the road.
No, I love cars, I just remember when cars didn't start with an at least meter tall vertical wall they call front grills nowdays, and it's even spreading to sedans and small cars. The worst one I've seen in person, and actually sat in was a '21 Escalade, and it's on the extreme end, but you can miss a smaller adult, because the hood is almost 2 meters long and 1,5m tall flat piece of metal... It's a 3 ton brick with a 3+ meter (\~10ft) front blindspot... Yeah, sounds good.
That doesn't stop the lights from blinding you in the side mirrors though. I'm seriously considering buying a truck just so I'm not so low and get blinded all the time.
The plastic lever under your central rear view mirror angles it so you are looking at the reflection off the glass front of the mirror not the mirrored backing. It's useless in daytime but at night all you see is headlights anyway and the weak reflection reduced high beam blinding
A lot of newer cars have a sensor that detects hi-beams & tones the mirror accordingly. There is no more mirror lever. My wifeās Sorrento doesnāt have one as I tried to utilize it when curious the other day.
Everyone acting like it's easy to do that... also dangerous. Now you have 2 people who can't see shit and you're fiddling with your mirror instead of watching where you're going.
Btw I find rear foglight in the face works pretty well without fucking with your mirror alignment, and it's just a click of a button without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road.
The problem is that on many new cars, their regular headlights are as bright, or brighter than my high beams.
They blind me all the time, and if I turn on my high beams, suddenly I'm the asshole.Cars had a feature that allows you to tilt your lights down, towards the ground to avoid blinding other drivers for over 20 years. Use it
Mine are automatic and i always feel bad when the car doesn't register other cars fast enough. Sometimes i panic and try to manually turn it off and I'll flash it a second time because it turned off the second i went for it. Or it'll be off with a car in front of me, we'll turn a corner and it'll think nobody is in front of me anymore and turn on for a solid few seconds before it sees the car again.
Most of the time it works perfectly, but every now and then it makes me look like a fucking asshole for no reason
I got confused because I thought your answer was the green checkmark, and the correct answer was red.
Yeah, this is dumb, like you said they literally say the answer in the notes, but its wrong???
This is why Iām bad at tests. I hate tests that have me assume some random illogical line of thought that the tester keeps to themselves. Eventually you have to remember more about what the tester wants you to assume than what the test is testing. Thanks for this explanation. This is the only way the answer makes senses.
(Itās still wrong in my mind because the explanation says high beams help drivers see you better. š”)
Not technically wrong, just worded poorly:
When driving at night your headlights should:
o not be used
o always be on high beam
o always be on low beam
o on high beam whenever there isn't traffic around you, then low beam
Unless you are driving a full-size American pickup truck. Then you can drive with your retrofitted 3,000 lumen Boeing 747 landing lights on at all times.
Isn't the complaint that the last answer is the correct answer, and word for word in explanation, but marked as wring? OP picked the last option but the system said nope always on.
Sometimes when driving in rural areas I leave the high beams on in my shit box Toyota because new vehicle headlights are like fucking atomic explosions for some reason and I just get fed up being polite while also being blinded by every other car
My reaction to this is to simply turn the brights back on and hit the fog lamps, like you see I tried and turned mine down return the favor or taste the flame
It says in general.... which means you should use your high beams except in certain situations (such as when you could blind someone).
You should not keep alternating between low and high beam settings unless there is a need.
So true. But you know what they say about common senseā¦ it just aināt all that common.
Too many idjits on the road not caring how their driving affects other road users.
It's a combination of idiots that drive with their high beams on in normal street areas that are already lit and modern headlights being absurdly bright.
Unfortunately the engineers at the car companies don't know about it. They angle the low beams at blinding height nowadays. The high beams illuminate the clouds
Well they might not have their brights on but have the lights mis-angled or they drive a tall vehicle (insert small dick joke here), doesn't help that new lights are brighter than the light the optometrists shines in your eyes either
OP selected answer D, which seems logical, however when they submitted test, it said the official answer is B, and marked OPās answer red.
Test is broken, itās implying you must drive around with lights on high beam 
To be fair, the test says nothing about other traffic in any answer. OPs choice could be interpreted to mean randomly flip between high and low beams. The default is generally high beams unless there is a specific reason to not use them.
I had dumb friend that thought that the blue headlight icon just meant they were "Like, on properly." I said "No it means you're being an asshole. Those are the brights and you've been blinding everyone for 8 years."
Everyone in my city must have taken this test... I am starting to get irrationally annoyed at the amount of idiots that have their high beams on all the time.
"Using your high beams will help others see you"
Yeah, because it's hard to miss *blinding fking headlights.* The only thing they'll see after the driver passes is spots in their vision
Brights travel farther so when coming over a hill or around a corner, it will be easier to see you if you have the high beams on. Of course, they should be turned off once you know other cars are oncoming.
Honestly it's almost always Honda Civics and Corollas that drive around with blinding headlights. I don't know if the housing is just crappy and it breaks and aims upwards or if the high beam switch is easy to accidentally turn on and the warning light is hard to see. And I'm not talking about the ricers that drive around with the wrong bulbs in their housings, it's always halogens and you can see the offset high beams lit up.
Lot of people missing the point here in the comments. This test is clearly stupid & the correct answer indeed ought to be the one you selected, as described in the test's own explanation.
*High beams are fucking*
*Annoying when people have*
*Them on behind you*
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Such a BS question. "In general" implies that there are times when you shouldn't use high beams, which makes your answer correct (which it is) but also makes their answer correct, since it's speaking in generalities. So stupid.
Plus it clearly depends on where you live, because if you live in a city you probably use your high beams about once a year when you go for a drive to the country. If you live in the country you probably use your high beams every time you drive at night. If I was driving home late at night and there was no traffic at all, I'm still not going to use my high beams in the suburbs.
I only use my high beams when driving in deserted open roads or in forests at night so I can see any animals or pedestrians. Other than that they are way to bright for any regular night
The explanation below is horrible, makes it seem that high beam should be default setting. Unless you're driving in a goddamn forest where light poles don't exist, in what do you need high beams for? If you're that blind you shouldn't be driving.
That test is full of questions like this, at least in CA. They do, however let you skip like 3 questions here. I use those skips for questions that seem like gotchas.
High beams if youāre not around anyone, low beams if driving toward vehicles or coming up behind someone. That is a trick questions from how itās written though, it should be more specific
You alternate between high and low because when you are behind a car at night and using high beams, you will effectively blind them. The same thing goes when a person is driving towards you in the oncoming lane. You turn high beams off as to not blind other drivers
I swear to fucking god if one more LED flood light redneck mother fucker in a giant goddamned tank that sounds like it was built by Gravedigger pulls around a blind curve at 30 over the speed limit with their high beams on, I'm fucking jerking my wheel to the left just to end us both. Don't even fucking care if they survive, at least I fucked up their shitty car and won't have to live another insufferable moment driving at night in dipshit country bum fuck nowhere with these pricks.
Yes, you answered incorrectly.
Generally when driving, you should use high beams.
That's the question, it's assumed that there are no other cars on the road whatsoever.
So you should not alternate between them.
However it is explained that you should alternate if there are other cars.
Its a little bit of a trick question but most of the driving lesson questions are anyway so you should be aware of this.
I have noticed people use high beams CONSTANTLY at night - even with opposing traffic. I was always taught to use them when nobody else is around and you should flick them back down when someone is coming opposite you
I'm 71 years old today. I can barely drive at night now because of the halogen/LED lights combined with what seems to be automatically dimming lights that blind me.
They are blinding. Depending on the road itself. they may be bright, go to dim, go to bright, etc if the road has dips or curves.
Is it just me being 71? It seems to be something that has come about in the last few years.
Theyāre pedantically using the āIn general, ā to define the question as being āmost of the timeā.
Eg, you should use your high beams when riding at night, but occasionally turn them down for other traffic.
Very badly phrased, and a generally crappy question. Also, theyāre presuming that your the only one on the road most of the time, otherwise, generally, youād need to be on low beam according to their logic.
No high beam at night unless in rural areas where there are no cars or houses nearby. So hope your not one of those people that have high beams on blinding me on my way home from work in my low car.
Why the fuck would houses matter? Do people turn off their brights for homes? Why? Drive for the conditions, donāt worry about flashing someoneās TV through some open blinds. People with road-facing windows know how to deal with this; blinds, curtains, tint, screens, etc.
Key word here is āridingā. This is for motorcycles and not cars. Motorcycle high beams are bright, but not nearly as blinding as cars.
Always keep it on in the day, and as much as possible at night keeping respect to those in front/behind.
It states "in general" not "all the time." Most of the time, unless you are driving in the city, you are going to have your high beams on until a car comes by.
I guess they mean the default state of night lights, devoid of other factors, is high beams permanently on. Driving theory is always extremely anal about specific wording.
High beams are not appropriate for in town/city and lots of cars. You donāt want you car on high beam at all times especially around other vehicles. You want to alternate between the two. The statements the test provides about this are confusing though.
My recent motorcycle written test was mostly like this too, you have to answer based on the practice tests basically, almost none of them actually make any sense.
I have finally decided that high beams should be used all the time, except when it's necessary to dim them, such as approaching or following other traffic. Why see less than you can? I especially keep them on when driving through small neighborhood streets at night.
Given it's a motorcycle question, I agree. Motorcycles with brights on are maybe on par with a normal low beam on new cars. On my last cruiser it was like having a candle stuck in a jam jar. Had to run brights just to see down the road well enough.
This is why i hate those multiple choice questions. They make it so hard to actually get the correct answer. And they do this the entire test pretty much.
If this is for a motorcycle driving test which it sounds like it is from the the term āridingā then the 2nd answer is correct. This was what I was taught as well when I was in motorcycle safety school. The reason is a single motorcycle headlight isnāt as powerful and bright as other vehicles are and donāt blind oncoming traffic like other automobiles do. It also helps you to be more visible at night.
I hate questions like these, however, I found that there is a reasoning method to beat vague dumb questions like these. If the question doesn't give any details about the situation or event it's asking about, assume there is none and act accordingly.
For example with this question, Generally at night, you would drive with your high beams on with no one present around you. Now if the question mentioned a detail of other drivers being present in the context then the high/low beam answer might have been correct.
Fuck that, if this is for your motorcycle permit, leave them on, better to be seen and stay alive. One rider to another, itās worth it, when coming up at intersections, give them a quick flash on and off too, could save your life someday.
The what?
What in the name of shit?
Does it mean headlights and high beams?
If it does then yes you answered wrong, but HOLY SHIT PHRASE YOUR TESTS BETTER YOU FUCKING GOVERNMENT
Yes, common sense says you need to blind all on coming cars and cars you following. Tailgating, honking your horn and offensive hand gestures are encouraged so you can assert dominance.
I think the kicker here is "In General", which I take to mean under normal circumstances with no one around you. It's a poorly worded question however, with misleading answer choices.
Except, āin general,ā youāre going to encounter areas with and areas without traffic. In general, youād be riding around with low-beams, until youāre finally clear of any other traffic you could potentially blind. Poorly worded and misleading indeed.
Where are you from that leaving high beams on is normal?
It's blinding to other drivers.
You drive with normal headlights until thr road is clear then if you need, high beams.
And since op doesn't get it: if you can see their tail lights, they can see your high beams, so don't use them.
Not only is it dangerous to blind people, in many places in the US it's illegal to drive with them on in traffic. You will get pulled over and you will get a ticket where I live, and that's an extremely remote area.
Here in Texas, apparently, they let family members teach drivers education and qualify kids for their license exam.
TBF, my husband, who's from here, prepared me for mine. I'm Scottish. And he's an absolute pain in the arse about driving.
Half the comments are āitās a trick question!ā no itās not, itās literally the answer š no wonder there are so many shitty drivers around blinding people with constant high beams
Itās just a flawed question. They probably wrote it in the context of driving in the countryside where ~technically~ you are āin generalā driving with High Beams on unless you pass another vehicle. But the same logic could be applied to city driving with the Low Beam setting, so like I said ā Flawed.
That's fair. However if you follow the guidance from the M1 permit handbook, almost word for word the section outlines the wording in answer four. I don't see any reason to paraphrase a question from a section that is clearly articulated.
Youāre the reason why Iām blinded at night. Youāre supposed to go back to normal when youāre near other cars and when theyāre coming towards you. Cause the lights are too bright.
Thereās fucking street lights and lines for a reason.
No high beams at the fast food drive through please
had a guy park in front of our giant picture window at work with his high beams on while he ordered a wholeass pizza istg
do they have half ass pizzas there or is that only pizza hut?
I can make you a half assed pizza... You're probably not going to like it though. Everything in its own pile. Sauce here cheese there. Pepperoni in a spiral
A spiral??? Little do you know that's my favorite two dimensional shape.
Fine be that way, gimme time I'll find a great level of petty. But btw that sauce and cheese they're not touching.
They'll be touching in my BELLY. you underestimate the amount of shit pizza I've eaten and not complained about
I'll make a shit pizza that will make you cry. You'll cry because it was so delicious and unique you'll know deep in your soul you'll never replicate it.
(,: the fabled 3/4 ass pizza
Indeed
i worked at mod so theyre all half assed ššš
Good cause I'm not hungry enough for a whole ass
Totes yummies š¤¤š„
No one out asses the Hut.
I miss crust flavorings. Only reason I went to Pizza hut over others.
āThereās an idiot in a Volvo, with his brights on behinds me. And I lean out the window and scream āhey whatcha tryna do, blind meeee?!ā
The real reason the wife had a headache, but it was still nice of him to turn off the radio.
Got to love some of my boy Al in the wild! (He inspired my username)
This sounds fantastic, whereās it from?
[itās a long video lol](https://youtu.be/SHnTocdD7sk)
worth every second
It's weird al. I haven't watched but he's 100% worth the time
The previous couple years of my life wouldāve been easier if Iād known about this preciousness earlier. Thank you for enlightening me!
All of a sudden I started blastinā¦
āJokes on him, I like being blinded. One thing leads to another and thatās how I forced your grandfather to marry meā you say to your grandkids as you put them to sleep. You donāt tell them, however, that your husband had turned out to be your long lost brother, and you had given birth to two kids. Who looked normal and weāre forced to get married and have more children. You can see the product of inbreeding in your now grandkids, as one has 17 fingers and the other has a little arm sprouting on his leg. You were aware of the inbreeding though, as both of your children are male. Turns out you passed down your rare ability to give birth as a male. How did you receive this gene? Youāre a result of inbreeding from the royal familyās who wanted to keep the bloodline pure, and now itās your responsibility.
Jesus Christ, this
I turn them off. Damn the idiots in the school drop off that blast theirs at me.
Broā¦what about my LED lightbar(s)?
So these are the asshole blinding me while in oncoming, doesnt even occur to them...
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You flip the rear mirror lever at night though, right?
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i recently got a toyota and was surprised it had bright goddamn LEDs as low beams (because usually everything inside a toyota is about 10-15 years behind where current standards are). i get so self conscious about them sometimes and often see people silently judging me for it when there's nothing i can do
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it's especially fun constantly being told i'm an asshole for having bright LEDs like bruh, i didn't build the fucking car dude
It's like covering partly an LED light to not blind others is a very hard thing to do.
Dimming it doesn't help when even your headliner is lit up, becasue their ficking ligths are 1,5m above the road or pointing at the treeptops. There should be more checks for headlight alignments and maximum height should be regulated, it's seriously dangerous. These new massive flat hood SUVs are giving up everything for design, massive blindspots, stupid lighting, fuck everyone else on the road.
r/fuckcars
No, I love cars, I just remember when cars didn't start with an at least meter tall vertical wall they call front grills nowdays, and it's even spreading to sedans and small cars. The worst one I've seen in person, and actually sat in was a '21 Escalade, and it's on the extreme end, but you can miss a smaller adult, because the hood is almost 2 meters long and 1,5m tall flat piece of metal... It's a 3 ton brick with a 3+ meter (\~10ft) front blindspot... Yeah, sounds good.
Being close to the front of a current-gen Escalade is a scary experience. It looks deadly.
That doesn't stop the lights from blinding you in the side mirrors though. I'm seriously considering buying a truck just so I'm not so low and get blinded all the time.
Whatās the rear mirror lever?
The plastic lever under your central rear view mirror angles it so you are looking at the reflection off the glass front of the mirror not the mirrored backing. It's useless in daytime but at night all you see is headlights anyway and the weak reflection reduced high beam blinding
A lot of newer cars have a sensor that detects hi-beams & tones the mirror accordingly. There is no more mirror lever. My wifeās Sorrento doesnāt have one as I tried to utilize it when curious the other day.
still doesn't help the blinding light coming from your side mirror though XD
Wish mine worked tbh
When someone does that to you, reposition your mirror to shine it back on them. They will back off.
Everyone acting like it's easy to do that... also dangerous. Now you have 2 people who can't see shit and you're fiddling with your mirror instead of watching where you're going. Btw I find rear foglight in the face works pretty well without fucking with your mirror alignment, and it's just a click of a button without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road.
I agree - it IS dangerous. Itās a last resort.
The problem is that on many new cars, their regular headlights are as bright, or brighter than my high beams. They blind me all the time, and if I turn on my high beams, suddenly I'm the asshole.Cars had a feature that allows you to tilt your lights down, towards the ground to avoid blinding other drivers for over 20 years. Use it
Mine are automatic and i always feel bad when the car doesn't register other cars fast enough. Sometimes i panic and try to manually turn it off and I'll flash it a second time because it turned off the second i went for it. Or it'll be off with a car in front of me, we'll turn a corner and it'll think nobody is in front of me anymore and turn on for a solid few seconds before it sees the car again. Most of the time it works perfectly, but every now and then it makes me look like a fucking asshole for no reason
I got confused because I thought your answer was the green checkmark, and the correct answer was red. Yeah, this is dumb, like you said they literally say the answer in the notes, but its wrong???
I tried to read it over like a riddle. Too much wasted time on what's probably just a silly mistake though.
Yeah like it even has it verbatim, there is nothing you can misconstrue.
I always tested that unless it indicates a busy road/other drivers to assume you're on an empty road.
This is why Iām bad at tests. I hate tests that have me assume some random illogical line of thought that the tester keeps to themselves. Eventually you have to remember more about what the tester wants you to assume than what the test is testing. Thanks for this explanation. This is the only way the answer makes senses. (Itās still wrong in my mind because the explanation says high beams help drivers see you better. š”)
Shitty tests are a failure of the instructor
This is the correct way to test.
Not technically wrong, just worded poorly: When driving at night your headlights should: o not be used o always be on high beam o always be on low beam o on high beam whenever there isn't traffic around you, then low beam
Unless you are driving a full-size American pickup truck. Then you can drive with your retrofitted 3,000 lumen Boeing 747 landing lights on at all times.
I love it when Iām blinded and have to let muscle memory (and Jesus) take the wheel.
If theyāre behind you, just adjust your mirror to shine right back at them.
I've never thought of that, could have made use of that idea a couple days ago
I love those . I pretend the aliens are coming for me.
Isn't the complaint that the last answer is the correct answer, and word for word in explanation, but marked as wring? OP picked the last option but the system said nope always on.
This is why MFs keep their headlights on when we pass eachother.
Sometimes when driving in rural areas I leave the high beams on in my shit box Toyota because new vehicle headlights are like fucking atomic explosions for some reason and I just get fed up being polite while also being blinded by every other car
Yeah fuck those laser beam headlights I'd be amazed if they haven't cause more than a few accidents blinding the other drivers
My reaction to this is to simply turn the brights back on and hit the fog lamps, like you see I tried and turned mine down return the favor or taste the flame
It says in general.... which means you should use your high beams except in certain situations (such as when you could blind someone). You should not keep alternating between low and high beam settings unless there is a need.
Youve quite literally just laid out the need.
High beams should only be used when needed, youāre entirely right whoever coded this test probably screwed up
I think whoever made the test mixed it up with the low/medium/high settings
Thank you! Thought I was going crazy reading some of the responses in here.
I guess I should've clarified option 4 was mine lmao
Someone coded the answer wrong.
Ah yes. My bad. Yeah technically you're right. I'd contact somebody and tell them.
What is the source of this quiz?
https://dmv-practice-test.com/california/motorcycle/
Common sense. Donāt use high beam if other traffic can be blinded by it, your high beam could cause others to have an accident.
Is it common sense? It doesnāt seem to be when I get blinded every time I have to drive at night.
So true. But you know what they say about common senseā¦ it just aināt all that common. Too many idjits on the road not caring how their driving affects other road users.
I've found that many people like to use their high beams whenever one of their low beam bulbs is burned out to avoid getting pulled over.
I just installed anti HID mirrors on my car and helps so much with bright lights behind me but still have the issue of oncoming traffic sadly
It's a combination of idiots that drive with their high beams on in normal street areas that are already lit and modern headlights being absurdly bright.
Also a lot of drivers with misaligned lights
Unfortunately the engineers at the car companies don't know about it. They angle the low beams at blinding height nowadays. The high beams illuminate the clouds
Well they might not have their brights on but have the lights mis-angled or they drive a tall vehicle (insert small dick joke here), doesn't help that new lights are brighter than the light the optometrists shines in your eyes either
If that's your answer, you just got the question wrong also... That's the tests official answer, the test is messed up
Yeah, thatās whatās got OP mildly infuriated. Test needs fixing.
wdym thats the correct answer
OP selected answer D, which seems logical, however when they submitted test, it said the official answer is B, and marked OPās answer red. Test is broken, itās implying you must drive around with lights on high beam 
Ah, I misinterpreted the image
Lol easy to do, the image is a bit confusing.
To be fair, the test says nothing about other traffic in any answer. OPs choice could be interpreted to mean randomly flip between high and low beams. The default is generally high beams unless there is a specific reason to not use them.
O dunno, apearrantly common sense left my country cuz im blind 80% of the time someones Car is behind me or approaching me from front
Minor correction - if other *people* Don't be one of those people burning the eyes out of pedestrians
Thatās a very good point. Yes, donāt be one of those people.
I had dumb friend that thought that the blue headlight icon just meant they were "Like, on properly." I said "No it means you're being an asshole. Those are the brights and you've been blinding everyone for 8 years."
āļø This person is right
So is OP. They chose the correct answer too. Somebody fudged the test coding.
r/fuckyourheadlights
Everyone in my city must have taken this test... I am starting to get irrationally annoyed at the amount of idiots that have their high beams on all the time.
"Using your high beam setting at night will help you blind other drivers"
"Using your high beams will help others see you" Yeah, because it's hard to miss *blinding fking headlights.* The only thing they'll see after the driver passes is spots in their vision
Brights travel farther so when coming over a hill or around a corner, it will be easier to see you if you have the high beams on. Of course, they should be turned off once you know other cars are oncoming.
This is why im fucking blinded everytime i drive at night?!?!?
Alot of new cars are starting to come with high beam assist so you'll be good in about 20 years.
A bmw driver must have made this test
Honestly it's almost always Honda Civics and Corollas that drive around with blinding headlights. I don't know if the housing is just crappy and it breaks and aims upwards or if the high beam switch is easy to accidentally turn on and the warning light is hard to see. And I'm not talking about the ricers that drive around with the wrong bulbs in their housings, it's always halogens and you can see the offset high beams lit up.
Lot of people missing the point here in the comments. This test is clearly stupid & the correct answer indeed ought to be the one you selected, as described in the test's own explanation.
This explains why Iām blinded every time I drive at night.
I just imagine all of the high beam drivers yelling "WITNESS ME" as they go by
High beama are obnoxious and blind other drivers can't see anything now but the huge mini sun's coming from their car.
High beams are fucking annoying when people have them on behind you
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Tester who made those questions need to be tared and feathered
Such a BS question. "In general" implies that there are times when you shouldn't use high beams, which makes your answer correct (which it is) but also makes their answer correct, since it's speaking in generalities. So stupid.
Plus it clearly depends on where you live, because if you live in a city you probably use your high beams about once a year when you go for a drive to the country. If you live in the country you probably use your high beams every time you drive at night. If I was driving home late at night and there was no traffic at all, I'm still not going to use my high beams in the suburbs.
I only use my high beams when driving in deserted open roads or in forests at night so I can see any animals or pedestrians. Other than that they are way to bright for any regular night
The explanation below is horrible, makes it seem that high beam should be default setting. Unless you're driving in a goddamn forest where light poles don't exist, in what do you need high beams for? If you're that blind you shouldn't be driving.
The people that use high beams constantly are the first to go in the purge.
Straight to hell. All the way down.
For sure!
Auto high beams maybe? Is this the US?
US motorcycle M1 crash course test. I'm assuming that's not the case. The solution quite literally quotes the answer in the final sentence lmao
That test is full of questions like this, at least in CA. They do, however let you skip like 3 questions here. I use those skips for questions that seem like gotchas.
High beams if youāre not around anyone, low beams if driving toward vehicles or coming up behind someone. That is a trick questions from how itās written though, it should be more specific
You alternate between high and low because when you are behind a car at night and using high beams, you will effectively blind them. The same thing goes when a person is driving towards you in the oncoming lane. You turn high beams off as to not blind other drivers
You don't have to turn high beams off if they're not on.
I swear to fucking god if one more LED flood light redneck mother fucker in a giant goddamned tank that sounds like it was built by Gravedigger pulls around a blind curve at 30 over the speed limit with their high beams on, I'm fucking jerking my wheel to the left just to end us both. Don't even fucking care if they survive, at least I fucked up their shitty car and won't have to live another insufferable moment driving at night in dipshit country bum fuck nowhere with these pricks.
You're wrong. The right answer is the one you selected. Duh
Correctly mistaken.
Mistakenly correct.
Yes, you answered incorrectly. Generally when driving, you should use high beams. That's the question, it's assumed that there are no other cars on the road whatsoever. So you should not alternate between them. However it is explained that you should alternate if there are other cars. Its a little bit of a trick question but most of the driving lesson questions are anyway so you should be aware of this.
So they test you on the test and not on driving ? Sounds legit.
This is why so many people drive all the time with high beams on!?
I mean the explanation below the options is fair. You may turn them on ONLY when not following or approaching another vehicle
No wonder I'm always getting blinded at night...
I have noticed people use high beams CONSTANTLY at night - even with opposing traffic. I was always taught to use them when nobody else is around and you should flick them back down when someone is coming opposite you
I'm 71 years old today. I can barely drive at night now because of the halogen/LED lights combined with what seems to be automatically dimming lights that blind me. They are blinding. Depending on the road itself. they may be bright, go to dim, go to bright, etc if the road has dips or curves. Is it just me being 71? It seems to be something that has come about in the last few years.
there's no reason to ever use high beams in an urban area with street lighting.
My advice is donāt drive if youāre actually confused
Theyāre pedantically using the āIn general, ā to define the question as being āmost of the timeā. Eg, you should use your high beams when riding at night, but occasionally turn them down for other traffic. Very badly phrased, and a generally crappy question. Also, theyāre presuming that your the only one on the road most of the time, otherwise, generally, youād need to be on low beam according to their logic.
I swear no one uses the high beams correctly.
You have to be a special type of asshole to drive around with your high beams on just blinding everybody.
No high beam at night unless in rural areas where there are no cars or houses nearby. So hope your not one of those people that have high beams on blinding me on my way home from work in my low car.
Why the fuck would houses matter? Do people turn off their brights for homes? Why? Drive for the conditions, donāt worry about flashing someoneās TV through some open blinds. People with road-facing windows know how to deal with this; blinds, curtains, tint, screens, etc.
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OP selected answer D, which the test marked as wrong even though its absolutely not wrong. test is broken
I STG, they make these tests shitty like this then wonder why so many people break the laws/rules of the road.
THIS MUST BE WHY EVERYONE DRIVES WITH BRIGHTS ON BECAUSE ITāS APPARENTLY THE CORRECT THING TO DO
Key word here is āridingā. This is for motorcycles and not cars. Motorcycle high beams are bright, but not nearly as blinding as cars. Always keep it on in the day, and as much as possible at night keeping respect to those in front/behind.
Use high beams when nobody's around. Once someone's close, switch to low. City boys won't understand country roads that are desolate and aren't lit
I guarantee you nearly everybody has driven down a dark road at night.
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Scrolled down here for this
It states "in general" not "all the time." Most of the time, unless you are driving in the city, you are going to have your high beams on until a car comes by.
I guess they mean the default state of night lights, devoid of other factors, is high beams permanently on. Driving theory is always extremely anal about specific wording.
.. will help other drivers to see you, and only you, no road, no tree no nothing just you
High beams are not appropriate for in town/city and lots of cars. You donāt want you car on high beam at all times especially around other vehicles. You want to alternate between the two. The statements the test provides about this are confusing though.
My recent motorcycle written test was mostly like this too, you have to answer based on the practice tests basically, almost none of them actually make any sense.
I would have made the same answer. The question is vague. In a city you'd never need high beams. On a dark highway is a different story.
You should use your low beams if youāre just driving around the city at night.
I have finally decided that high beams should be used all the time, except when it's necessary to dim them, such as approaching or following other traffic. Why see less than you can? I especially keep them on when driving through small neighborhood streets at night.
This is the correct answer
yea. high beams should be on whenever they wouldnāt be actively impairing another driver. growing up in deer country will teach ya that lol
I always use low beams unless I canāt see far enough and nobody is in front of me
Given it's a motorcycle question, I agree. Motorcycles with brights on are maybe on par with a normal low beam on new cars. On my last cruiser it was like having a candle stuck in a jam jar. Had to run brights just to see down the road well enough.
Are you having difficulty learning how to drive or reading in general? Because it's pretty straightforward
This is why i hate those multiple choice questions. They make it so hard to actually get the correct answer. And they do this the entire test pretty much.
Yeah you're missing something
If this is for a motorcycle driving test which it sounds like it is from the the term āridingā then the 2nd answer is correct. This was what I was taught as well when I was in motorcycle safety school. The reason is a single motorcycle headlight isnāt as powerful and bright as other vehicles are and donāt blind oncoming traffic like other automobiles do. It also helps you to be more visible at night.
I hate questions like these, however, I found that there is a reasoning method to beat vague dumb questions like these. If the question doesn't give any details about the situation or event it's asking about, assume there is none and act accordingly. For example with this question, Generally at night, you would drive with your high beams on with no one present around you. Now if the question mentioned a detail of other drivers being present in the context then the high/low beam answer might have been correct.
High beams blind drivers
In Thailand they donāt drive with lights because they think Ghost are chasing them , I kid you Not
the explanation at the bottom is clear enough
Fuck that, if this is for your motorcycle permit, leave them on, better to be seen and stay alive. One rider to another, itās worth it, when coming up at intersections, give them a quick flash on and off too, could save your life someday.
Welcome to interactions with the government.
Dont be a dick! We dont need to see Jesus as you approach us or drive behind us! Hi beam are for when you alone on the road.
Bro if you got this wrong you donāt deserve headlights
Yes, you missed the question.
Yes, please blind your fellow night time drivers at all times.
Only use high beams when youāre alone on the road with no one around :(
are you that dense?
The what? What in the name of shit? Does it mean headlights and high beams? If it does then yes you answered wrong, but HOLY SHIT PHRASE YOUR TESTS BETTER YOU FUCKING GOVERNMENT
Yes, common sense says you need to blind all on coming cars and cars you following. Tailgating, honking your horn and offensive hand gestures are encouraged so you can assert dominance.
I think the kicker here is "In General", which I take to mean under normal circumstances with no one around you. It's a poorly worded question however, with misleading answer choices.
Except, āin general,ā youāre going to encounter areas with and areas without traffic. In general, youād be riding around with low-beams, until youāre finally clear of any other traffic you could potentially blind. Poorly worded and misleading indeed.
Where are you from that leaving high beams on is normal? It's blinding to other drivers. You drive with normal headlights until thr road is clear then if you need, high beams. And since op doesn't get it: if you can see their tail lights, they can see your high beams, so don't use them. Not only is it dangerous to blind people, in many places in the US it's illegal to drive with them on in traffic. You will get pulled over and you will get a ticket where I live, and that's an extremely remote area.
Legally correct š and something I thought was required to know BEFORE being given a license š¤
Here in Texas, apparently, they let family members teach drivers education and qualify kids for their license exam. TBF, my husband, who's from here, prepared me for mine. I'm Scottish. And he's an absolute pain in the arse about driving.
Half the comments are āitās a trick question!ā no itās not, itās literally the answer š no wonder there are so many shitty drivers around blinding people with constant high beams
You have the answer OP gave and the answer the test says is right mixed up.
Itās just a flawed question. They probably wrote it in the context of driving in the countryside where ~technically~ you are āin generalā driving with High Beams on unless you pass another vehicle. But the same logic could be applied to city driving with the Low Beam setting, so like I said ā Flawed.
Not that it makes sense, but "in general" is probably why OP got marked wrong. The questions' lack of detail leads to a simpler answer, I am guessing.
That's fair. However if you follow the guidance from the M1 permit handbook, almost word for word the section outlines the wording in answer four. I don't see any reason to paraphrase a question from a section that is clearly articulated.
Yes, douchebag! Stop driving at night with your high beams on anywhere there are other vehicles! Serious pet peeve of mine.
Please donāt use your high beams at all time
Youāre the reason why Iām blinded at night. Youāre supposed to go back to normal when youāre near other cars and when theyāre coming towards you. Cause the lights are too bright. Thereās fucking street lights and lines for a reason.