For a beginner driving, it is sometimes difficult to navigate which headlights (fog, daytime running lights, low or high beam) to turn on at a given moment in time. But in this regard, the rules have clear instructions that are worth learning.
Instructions
Step 1
Daytime running lights are not made on all vehicles. Their purpose is good visibility of this car for other drivers and pedestrians. DRLs indicate a car in the front, they are not in the back. For the convenience of the motorist, daytime running lights are turned on together with the engine start, rarely when it is necessary to do it on purpose. Accordingly, DRLs work on the car always while it is moving.
Step 2
If your car does not have DRL, then to indicate it when driving on any roads at any time of the day, you will need dipped headlights.
It is imperative to turn on this light in the tunnel, even if it is daytime or there is lighting in the tunnel. This rule was introduced in case of a sudden shutdown of lighting. If the car in such a situation does not turn on the dipped headlights, then this can lead to an accident. An accident can occur in the seconds that the driver needs to turn on the dipped beam, while his car moves in absolute darkness.
If it is raining, snowing or foggy on the road, that is, visibility is far from ideal, dipped headlights are also needed.
Step 3
When you are driving outside the city or the countryside at night, you need high beam headlights. In the city, this light is rarely used: the streets are lit and many other road users who can be dazzled by the high beam.
You should always switch the high beam to the low beam when an oncoming vehicle is driving. The distance to it must be at least 150 meters. Even if the oncoming car is more than 150 meters away from you, and its driver shows that you are blinding him (quickly switches the high and low beam), you must turn off the high beam.
It is worth switching from high beam to low beam when approaching the top of the rise, in order to also exclude the dazzle of oncoming and passing cars. Under these conditions, the driver will not see them in advance, since the view is obscured by a slide.
The traffic rules do not indicate at what distance to the passing car you must turn off the high beam headlights. But it says that you must not blind other drivers. So if you catch up with the car in front, turn off the high beam headlights.
Step 4
Not every car has fog lights. Sometimes the drivers themselves equip their car with them, the rules do not prohibit this. The direct purpose of these headlights is to illuminate the road when it is raining or foggy. If you don't see the road ahead very well, you should turn on the fog lights along with the low or high beam headlights.
There are also fog lights that illuminate your car from behind. In no case should such lights be connected to brake lights, since they can only be turned on in fog, rain or snow. When road visibility is good, it is unnecessary to include such lighting on your vehicle on the road.
If you are driving in a heavy snowstorm or rainstorm, the best option in this situation is to turn on the fog lights plus low beam. The high beam headlights in this situation will blind you: the light will be reflected from snow or rain and return to your eyes.
It is allowed to turn on only fog lights in order to mark your car while driving. But this is possible only during the day, when there is no rain, and in no case in the tunnel.
Step 5
If you decide to stop on the track at night, the rules dictate that you turn on the side lights on your car. These lights do not illuminate the road at all, but they will allow other drivers to notice your car in advance. When a vehicle on the side of the road is not marked with parking lights, it can easily lead to a serious accident.
