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Flashing Your Headlights? You’re Probably Sending the Wrong Signals

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NY Times Flashing Your Headlights? You’re Probably Sending the Wrong Signals
Which begins...
  • You’re driving on a winding, rural road at night and a car in the opposite lane has its high beams on.
    Do you:
    • A. Flash your headlights to alert the driver?
    • B. Momentarily look down and to the right at the white line on the road to avoid being blinded?
    • C. Turn on your high beams?
    • (For purposes of this quiz, we’ll rule out swearing as an option.)
    If you answered B, go to the head of driver’s ed class. If you answered A or C, think again.
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Flashing Your Headlights? You’re Probably Sending the Wrong Signals