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Low beams within 200 feet of a car you follow

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Practice question · Signals and lights

At night, you must use low beams when you follow another vehicle that is closer than what distance?

The rule

Use your low beams when the vehicle you are following is less than 200 feet ahead of you.

Use your low beams when you follow a vehicle that is less than 200 feet ahead of you.

From the SCDMV Driver's License Manual, page 11-2. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.

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