About running with brights?

An oncoming vehicle or vehicle in front of you must be a minimum of 600 m (2000 feet) away from you.

If you can see their headlights, I always turn off my brights. I'm super sensitive to lights so really hate people who run with their brights on, even in the daytime. Lights these days are so bright having high beams on is horrible to us who are sensitive.

I see cops and bus drivers with them on 24/7 though - sigh...

The legal distance in Canada is 600 m or 2000 feet.

 

I do believe that at least in Michigan the legal limit is about 500 feet, thats what I was told when I took Drivers Ed for my regular licence a few years back when I was 16.

 

I practice:

If you can see the tail lights, no brights.

If you see the head lights, no brights.

 

I will second what Roadmedic said

 

I'll agree with Mack and Roadmedic on this. And I'll also add this. A divided highway divides the lanes, not the vision. If you are coming toward traffic that median strip will do very little to divert your bright lights. Of course if the lanes happen to have a two mile wide median, then that is a different story, but in most cases, if you are meeting traffic, keep the dims on.

And unless there is fog, don't use those #### fog lights, they can be as bad or worse than high beams if they are not set right!

 

Yeah I just use low beams if I can see headlights coming, I never really consider how far they are away. Same with taillights.

 

That's what it's been on every test I ever took and I was in the military and moved alot. But it's a good practice to go to lower beams when you know for sure the high beams will not blind the driver.

 

I tend to just use the low beams on the highway, I find if I run the brights it takes too long for my eyes to adjust when I meet a car and dim them