Comments on: Night Driving http://www.htnz.co.nz housetrucks, housebuses, mobile homes, campervans, motorbikes 'n other stuff Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stuart http://www.htnz.co.nz/articles/housetrucking-essentials/safe-driving-tips/night-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Stuart Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:38:54 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?page_id=102#comment-23 Unless you are driving on long straight roads, there is not much point in having your headlights on full beam. The lights don't go round corners, and for many of our winding roads, dipped lights will go right to the end of the visible road anyway. Getting into the habit of using your lights on dip will also mean that you can still see when traffic is coming from the other direction, because your eyes are already adjusted. Dipping your lights from full beam when another vehicle approaches is like turning them off when it comes to seeing where you are going. Getting into this practice can take a little time, but when you get used to it, night driving becomes a lot more relaxed, enjoyable and less tiring. If you have big powerful spotlights like there were on the trucks that I drove, then you also get the benefit of reluctant approaching vehicles dipping a lot quicker with a flash of your spotlights. Unless you are driving on long straight roads, there is not much point in having your headlights on full beam. The lights don’t go round corners, and for many of our winding roads, dipped lights will go right to the end of the visible road anyway. Getting into the habit of using your lights on dip will also mean that you can still see when traffic is coming from the other direction, because your eyes are already adjusted. Dipping your lights from full beam when another vehicle approaches is like turning them off when it comes to seeing where you are going.

Getting into this practice can take a little time, but when you get used to it, night driving becomes a lot more relaxed, enjoyable and less tiring. If you have big powerful spotlights like there were on the trucks that I drove, then you also get the benefit of reluctant approaching vehicles dipping a lot quicker with a flash of your spotlights.

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