How to Drive at Night :: Tips & Techniques to Safely Drive in the Dark

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0:00 Night Driving is Challenging
1:56 Preserve Night Vision - Turn Down Your Dash Lights
4:14 Urban Night Driving
2:23 Light & Movement
6:38 Rear View Mirror Glare
8:25 Highway Driving
10:35 Dark Back Road
16:45 Relying on Your Headlights
14:54 Highway- Follow Other Traffic
19:15 Look to the Edge of the Road
23:34 Houses Along the Roadway
25:12 Smart Tips to Remember
27:17 Question: Do you have any tips for night driving?
28:20 Blooper & Links

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The first thing I'll tell you: turn down the dash lights the lowest setting that you can tolerate, especially as you move away from urban areas. We will give you some more detail about that.

As well, as you move out of the urban areas into highways and on roads that have less street lighting, you're going to rely more and more on your headlights. As you rely more and more on your headlights, reduce your speed below the posted speed limit by 5 to 10 kilometers an hour or five to eight miles per hour depending on where you are. So as you get into darker and darker areas you're going to rely more and more on your headlights.

Road markings are not going to help you find the roadway at night; however street signs will because most of the street with signs are located along roadways and are reflective. So they will help you to find and locate the roadway. As well, utility poles are often quite good and often you can see a silhouette of the landscape and geography that will give you some indication of where the roadway is. And finally houses along roadways with lights on will also help you to locate roadways.

And the most important feature to help you find the roadway at night is other traffic. Other traffic--for the most part--drives on the roadway, so you can follow the other traffic and look farther down the road and see where the roadway goes. So what we're going to do today, we're going to some more detail about all of that and go for a drive and give you an in-depth detail of how to find the roadway. Stick around we'll be right back with that information.

PRESERVE YOUR NIGHT VISION
Lower Your Dash Lights

Hi there smart drivers, welcome back. Rick with smart drive test sitting in the dark in my car. We're gonna go for a drive here and I'm going to give you some information about night driving and how to make that easier and safer. Now just before we get going here, the first thing I'm going to tell you: turn down the dash lights in your vehicle to the lowest setting that you can tolerate because I've seen these new vehicles and the dash is so lit up it looks like a fireworks celebration. So turn your lights down, because what happens is that our eyes are attracted to light and movement. And therefore because your dash lights are so bright, it's going to pull your vision down towards the dash, when actually what you [FLASHES OF LIGHT ON-SCREEN THAT MOVE THE VIEWERS EYES TO UNDERSCORE POIN] want to do is look farther down the road and try and find the features on the road they're going to help you to locate the roadway.

LIGHT & MOVEMENT

As well, because your eyes are always being drawn down to that bright light on the dash, you're going to fatigue easier and it's going to erode your night vision. You need to protect your night vision; so turn your dash lights down to as low as you can. Now I've been driving for a long time and driving professional - trucks, buses and whatnot and I have my dash lights down to the minimum setting and you can barely see the dash. And actually, on some of the professional vehicles--buses and trucks--you can actually turn them down until they’re almost off. If you're running on cruise control out on the highway at night - yes turn them down, so they're almost off. Because you're on cruise anyway, and you're at a set speed. And you really don't need to see the gauges on the dash if you're running the same vehicle all the time, and running for long periods of time. You're going to know if something's wrong that vehicle - you really don't need to monitor the gauges at night. So turn your dash lights down. I can't stress that enough because it erodes your night vision. So we're gonna fire up the cameras, go for a drive.

Good luck on your driver's test!

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