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Here are some tips on night driving.
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Drive defensively.
Don't drink and drive.
Adjust your inside rearview
mirror
to reduce the
glare from headlamps behind you.
Since you can't see as well, you -may need to slow
down and keep more space between you and other
vehicles;
Slow down, especially on higher speed roads. Your
headlamps can light up only so much road ahead.
In remote areas, watch for animals.
If you're tired, pull off the road
in
a safe place and
rest.
Night Vision
No one
can
see as well
at
night as in the daytime. But as
we get older these differences increase. A 50-year-old
driver may require at le'ast twice as much light to see the
same- thing at night as a 20-yea-old.
What you do in the daytime can also affect your night
vision. For example, if you spend the day in bright
sunshineyou are wise to wear sunglasses. Your eyes will
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