In this situation, can you use high-beam lights?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video, you are driving at night on an unlit road outside a town; a car overtakes you and then drives a short distance in front of you. In this situation, you are not allowed to use main beam (high beam). The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act allows you to use main beam on unlit roads only when it will not dazzle others, and it requires you to switch to dipped headlights when you are approaching the vehicle in front, if its driver may be dazzled. Main beam reflected in the mirrors of the car in front of you dazzles its driver just as much as lights from the opposite direction. You drive with dipped headlights until that car has moved so far away that your lights no longer reach it, and only then do you return to main beam.
Legal basis: Art. 51 para. 3 point 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)